Blessed, precious mistakes: deconstruction, evolution, and New Atheism in America

This paper explores the ways that Daniel C. Dennett’s bestselling 2006 book Breaking the Spell traffics in a set of distinctly American presumptions about the relationship between religion and science. In this Americanized atheism, religion is presumed to be a set of logically organized propositiona...

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Published in:International journal for philosophy of religion
Main Author: Schaefer, Donovan O. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2014
In: International journal for philosophy of religion
Further subjects:B Deconstruction
B Pluralism
B Atheism
B Accident
B Postsecularism
B Dennett
B Derrida
B Evolution
B Caputo
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