RT Book
T1 Becoming atheist: humanism and the secular West
A1 Brown, Callum G. 1953-
LA English
PP London New York, NY
PB Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1018531815
AB Preface -- 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.
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL2747.8
SN 9781474224536
SN 9781474224550
SN 9781474224543
K1 Secularism : History : 20th century
K1 Atheism : History : 20th century
K1 Secularization (Theology) : History : 20th century
K1 Atheism
K1 Secularism
K1 Secularization (Theology)
K1 History
K1 1900-1999
DO 10.5040/9781474224536