Being Godless

Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-628-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 154 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Studies in Social Analysis

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blanes, Roy Llera

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Blasphemie, Ketzerei, Konversion, Abwendung von Religion
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism

Ruy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Chapter 1. Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary Britain

Lois Lee

Chapter 2. Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist Materialism

Jacob Copeman and Johannes Quack

Chapter 3. Atheist Political Cultures in Independent Angola

Ruy Llera Blanes and Abel Paxe

Chapter 4. Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt

Paul-François Tremlett and Fang-Long Shih

Chapter 5. Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for Anthropology

Sonja Luehrmann

Chapter 6. Confessional Anthropology

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Chapter 7. On Atheism and Non-religion: An Afterword

Matthew Engelke

Bibliograpghy

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Blanes, Roy Llera
Roy Llera Blanes is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council.

Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

Roy Llera Blanes is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council.