Religion and the new atheism : A critical appraisal / Ed. by Amarnath Amarasingam.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249) and index.

Introduction : what is the new atheism? / Amarnath Amarasingam ; Judaism and atheism : the challenge of secular humanism / Robert L. Platzner ; Beating 'God' to death : radical theology and the new atheism / Jeffrey W. Robbins and Christopher D. Rodkey ; Religion as phantasmagoria : Islam in The end of faith / Rory Dickson ; What has atheism ever done for science? / Steve Fuller ; Cognitive science and the new atheism / William Sims Bainbridge ; One-dimensional rage : the social epistemology of the new atheism and fundamentalism / William A. Stahl ; The new atheism and sociology : why here? why now? what next? / Stephen Bullivant ; The new atheism and the secularization thesis / Michael Ian Borer ; The new atheism and the empowerment of American freethinkers / Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith ; Ethics, out-group altruism, and the new atheism / Gregory R. Peterson ; Disparate destinations, parallel paths : an analysis of contemporary atheist and Christian parenting literature / Jeff Nall ; Is God a hypothesis? : the new atheism, contemporary philosophy of religion, and philosophical confusion / Ryan C. Falcioni.