| The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief Contributor(s): Flynn, Tom (Editor), Dawkins, Richard (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1591023912 ISBN-13: 9781591023913 Publisher: Prometheus Books OUR PRICE: $189.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: A comprehensive work on the history, beliefs, and thinking of America's fastest growing minority: those who lives without religion. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Encyclopedias - Religion | Agnosticism - Religion | Atheism |
| Dewey: 211.803 |
| LCCN: 2006012121 |
| Physical Information: 2.14" H x 7.22" W x 10.33" (3.76 lbs) 912 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Successor to the highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of Unbelief (1985), edited by the late Gordon Stein, the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief is a comprehensive reference work on the history, beliefs, and thinking of America's fastest growing minority: those who live without religion. All-new articles by the field's foremost scholars describe and explain every aspect of atheism, agnosticism, secular humanism, secularism, and religious skepticism. Topics include morality without religion, unbelief in the historicity of Jesus, critiques of intelligent design theory, unbelief and sexual values, and summaries of the state of unbelief around the world. In addition to covering developments since the publication of the original edition, the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief includes a larger number of biographical entries and much-expanded coverage of the linkages between unbelief and social reform movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the labor movement, woman suffrage, anarchism, sex radicalism, and second-wave feminism. More than 130 respected scholars and activists worldwide served on the editorial board and over 100 authoritative contributors have written in excess of 500 entries. The distinguished advisors and contributors--philosophers, scientists, scholars, and Nobel Prize laureates--include Joe Barnhart, David Berman, Sir Hermann Bondi, Vern L. Bullough, Daniel Dennett, Taner Edis, the late Paul Edwards, Antony Flew, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Peter Hare, Van Harvey, R. Joseph Hoffmann, Susan Jacoby, Paul Kurtz, Gerd L demann, Michael Martin, Kai Nielsen, Robert M. Price, Peter Singer, Victor Stenger, Ibn Warraq, George A. Wells, David Tribe, Sherwin Wine, and many others. With a foreword by evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins, this unparalleled reference work provides comprehensive knowledge about unbelief in its many varieties and manifestations. |