Being godless : ethnographies of atheism and non-religion / / edited by Ruy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 306.6
• Soggetto topico: Irreligion; Atheism; Secularism; Ethnography
• Classificazione: BG 3000
• Persona (resp. second.): BlanesRuy Llera <1976->; Oustinova-StjepanovicGalina
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Being godless
• ISBN: 1-78533-574-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810335803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II