LEADER 03326nam 22005655 450 001 9910568261503321 005 20240509011451.0 010 $a9783030967413$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030967406 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-96741-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6977419 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6977419 035 $a(CKB)22046313100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-96741-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9922046313100041 100 $a20220504d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe God Debaters $eNew Atheist Identity-Making and the Religious Self in the New Millennium /$fby Adrian Rosenfeldt 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (249 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Rosenfeldt, Adrian The God Debaters Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030967406 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Richard Dawkins: Public Professor of Science -- 3. The Mythos of Karen Armstrong -- 4. Christopher Hitchens' New Enlightenment -- 5. Terry Eagleton's Revolution -- 6. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West. Through a close study of prominent English God debaters Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Christopher Hitchens, and Terry Eagleton, Adrian Rosenfeldt demonstrates that New Atheist and religious apologist ideas and arguments about God, science, and identity are driven by mythic autobiographical narratives and Protestant or Catholic cultural heritage. This study is informed by criticism of the New Atheist polemic as being positivistic, and the religious apologists as propagating "sophisticated theology." In both cases, the God debaters are perceived as disassociating themselves from human lived experience. It is through reconnecting the God debaters' intellectual ideas to their cultural and social background that the God debate can be grounded in a recognisable human reality that eludes reductive distinctions and disembodied abstractions. Adrian Rosenfeldt is a teaching associate at La Trobe University and Melbourne University, Australia. His research interests and teaching involve classical sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of mental illness, modernism, and criminology. His current research focuses on different forms of humanism and identity-making as recognisable in the twenty-first century God debate. 606 $aReligion and science 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aIdentity politics 606 $aReligion and Sciences 606 $aSocial Philosophy 606 $aIdentity Politics 615 0$aReligion and science. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aIdentity politics. 615 14$aReligion and Sciences. 615 24$aSocial Philosophy. 615 24$aIdentity Politics. 676 $a211.8 676 $a211.80905 700 $aRosenfeldt$b Adrian$01228996 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910568261503321 996 $aThe God Debaters$92852995 997 $aUNINA