02597nam 2200529 450 991079475640332120240206005000.01-78533-574-X10.1515/9781785335747(CKB)4340000000188440(MiAaPQ)EBC4789138(DE-B1597)636819(DE-B1597)9781785335747(EXLCZ)99434000000018844020171009h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBeing godless ethnographies of atheism and non-religion /edited by Ruy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-StjepanovicNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn,2017.©20171 online resource (153 pages) illustrationsStudies in Social Analysis ;Volume 1Includes index.1-78533-628-2 Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction. Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism --Chapter 1 Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary Britain --Chapter 2 Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist Materialism --Chapter 3 Atheist Political Cultures in Independent Angola --Chapter 4 Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt --Chapter 5 Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for Anthropology --Chapter 6 Confessional Anthropology --Afterword: On Atheism and Non-Religion --IndexDrawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.IrreligionAtheismSecularismEthnography.Irreligion.Atheism.Secularism.306.6BG 3000SEPArvkBlanes Ruy Llera1976-Oustinova-Stjepanovic GalinaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794756403321Being godless3803149UNINA