LEADER 02757nam 22004811a 450 001 9910155204403321 005 20160808072044.0 010 $a1-4742-2453-9 010 $a1-4742-2454-7 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474224536 035 $a(CKB)3710000000973881 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4773173 035 $a(OCoLC)956435125 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09260459 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000973881 100 $a20170227d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBecoming atheist $ehumanism and the secular West /$fCallum G. Brown 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York, NY $cBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc$d[2017] 215 $a1 online resource (249 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-4742-2452-0 311 $a1-4742-2449-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Narratives of Belief and Unbelief -- 3. The Atheist Child -- 4. The Silent and Indifferent Atheist -- 5. Women, Feminism and Becoming Faithless -- 6. Men, Reason and Radicalism -- 7. Atheism and Ethnicity -- 8. The Humanist Condition -- Sources -- Index. 330 $a"The Western World is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened? Becoming Atheist explores how people of the sixties' generation have come to live their lives as if there is no God. It tells the life narratives of those from Britain, Western Europe, the United States and Canada who came from Christian, Jewish and other backgrounds to be without faith. Based on interviews with 85 people born in 18 countries, Callum Brown shows how gender, ethnicity and childhood shape how individuals lose religion. This book moves from statistical and broad cultural analysis to use frank, humorous and sometimes harrowing personal testimony. Becoming Atheist exposes people's role in renegotiating their own identities, and fashioning a secular and humanist culture for the Western world."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aSecularism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAtheism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSecularization (Theology)$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aSecularism$xHistory 615 0$aAtheism$xHistory 615 0$aSecularization (Theology)$xHistory 676 $a211/.809045 700 $aBrown$b Callum G.$f1953-$01106222 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155204403321 996 $aBecoming atheist$92786612 997 $aUNINA