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The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. For McEwan and his contemporaries, the contemporary novel represents a new front in the ideological war against religion, religious fundamentalism and, after 9/11, religious terror: the novel apparently stands for everything freedom, individuality, rationality and even a secular experience of the transcendental that religion seeks to overthrow. In this book, Bradley and Tate offer a genealogy of the New Atheist Novel: where it comes from, what needs it serves and, most importantly, where it may go in the future. What is it? How does it dramatise the war between belief and non-belief? To what extent does it represent a genuine ideological alternative to the religious imaginary or does it merely repeat it in secularised form? This fascinating study offers an incisive critique of this contemporary testament of literary belief and unbelief.
Religion and literature. --- Atheism and literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- McEwan, Ian --- Amis, Martin --- Rushdie, Salman --- Pullman, Philip, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion and literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature and atheism --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Moral and religious aspects --- McEwan, Ian (1948-....) --- Amis, Martin (1949-....) --- Rushdie, Salman (1947-....) --- Pullman, Philip (1946-....) --- Religion et littérature --- Athéisme --- Littérature anglophone --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- 21e siècle --- Religion et littérature --- Athéisme --- Littérature anglophone --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- 21e siècle
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An investigation into the influence of, and reaction to, the atheistic writings of the baron d'Holbach. The Baron d'Holbach, a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment, is best known for his writings against religion. His prolific campaign of atheism and anti-clericalism, waged from the printing presses of Amsterdam in the yearsaround 1770, was so radical that it provoked an unprecedented public response. For the baron's enemies, at least, it suggested the end of an era: proof that the likes of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were simply a cabal of atheists hell-bent on the destruction of all that was to be cherished about religion and society. The philosophes, past their prime and under fire, recognised the need to respond, but struggled to know which way to turn. France's institutional bodies, lacking unity and fatally distracted, provided no credible lead. Instead, the voice of reason came from an unlikely source - independent Christian apologists, Catholic and Protestant, who attacked the baron on his own terms and, in the process, irrevocably changed the nature of Christian writing. This book examines the reception of the works of the baron d'Holbach throughout francophone Europe. It insists that d'Holbach's historical importance has been understated, argues the case for the existence of a significant "Christian Enlightenment" and raises questions about existing secular models of the francophone public sphere.
Comparative religion --- anno 1700-1799 --- Europe --- Athéisme --- Mouvement des Lumières --- Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich, --- Histoire et critique --- 141.45 --- 211.4 --- Atheïsme --- Antigodsdienstige stellingen --- Atheism --- Atheism and literature --- Enlightenment --- Philosophy, French --- History --- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 211.4 Antigodsdienstige stellingen --- 141.45 Atheïsme --- Philosophy --- Agnosticism --- Free thought --- Irreligion --- Religion --- Secularism --- Theism --- Literature and atheism --- Literature --- D'Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, --- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiery, --- Holbach, Paul Heinrich Dietrich, --- Thiry, Paul Henri, --- Thiery, Paul Henri, --- Thierry, Paul Henri, --- Dietrich, Paul Henri, --- Thyry, Paul Henri, --- Holbach, Paul Thiry, --- Holbach, --- D'Holbach, --- M. D***, --- D***, --- Ancien magistrat, --- Bernier, --- Olbach, --- Orbach, --- Halbach, --- Holbah, Pol, --- Golʹbakh, Polʹ, --- Holbakh, Pol, --- von Holbach, Paul Heinrich Dietrich --- Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich --- Histoire et critique. --- Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich baron d' --- Baron d'Holbach. --- Catholic. --- Christian apologists. --- Enlightenment rationalism. --- French Enlightenment. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Protestant. --- Voltaire. --- anti-clericalism. --- atheistic writings. --- cabal. --- francophone Europe. --- religion. --- religious writing.
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Describes a philosophical tradition of 'black liberation atheism' that emerges, gaining coherence and momentum, in the twentieth century
African American authors --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature. --- Atheism and literature --- American literature --- Afro-American authors --- Authors, African American --- Negro authors --- Authors, American --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Literature and atheism --- Literature --- Political and social views. --- Religion. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Hughes, Langston, --- Larsen, Nella --- Wright, Richard, --- Hughes, James Langston, --- Khʹi︠u︡z, Lengston, --- Hiyūz, Lānkistūn, --- Khʹi︠u︡z, L. --- Huza, L., --- יוז, לענגסטאן, --- ヒューズラングストン, --- Walker, Nellie, --- Larsen, Nellye --- Larsen, Nellie --- Imes, Nella --- Raĭt, Richard, --- Raiṭ, Rits'ard, --- רייט, ריצ׳רד --- רייט, ריצ׳רד, --- رتشارد رايت --- رايت، رتشارد --- Rāyt, Rīchārd, --- راىت، رىچارد --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hugues, Langston --- History and criticism --- United States --- 20th century --- African Americans in literature --- Religion --- Political and social views --- Wright, Richard --- Criticism and interpretation --- Hughes, Langston
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