Humanist and secular alternatives to religion

Atheism is often considered to be a negative or pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposition to religion.

Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity?

Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity?

For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened.

For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened.

Of those raised Catholic, just 13% still attend Mass weekly, and 37% say they have 'no religion'.

Of those raised Catholic, just 13% still attend Mass weekly, and 37% say they have 'no religion'.

Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted.

Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted.

This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments.

This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments.

This Dictionary of Atheism provides more than 150 definitions of terms related to the subject of atheism, ranging from those of historic importance, including the history of the term atheist itself, to crucial concepts in the contemporary study of atheism, such as agnosticism and scepticism.

Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain provides a major empirical contribution to the literature of secularization.

Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain provides a major empirical contribution to the literature of secularization.

In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliche that there was a 'God Gap' between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe.

In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliche that there was a 'God Gap' between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe.

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

Anthropologists have invariably engaged in their discipline as a form of redemption, whether to escape from social restriction, nourish their souls, reform their home polities, or vindicate "e;the natives.

Anthropologists have invariably engaged in their discipline as a form of redemption, whether to escape from social restriction, nourish their souls, reform their home polities, or vindicate "e;the natives.

Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight.

Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight.

'The profoundest book there is, born from the innermost richness of truth, an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming up with gold and goodness.

What is agnosticism?

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile.

Heralded as the exponents of a 'new atheism', critics of religion are highly visible in today's media, and include the household names of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris.

Spectres of False Divinity presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes.

What is agnosticism?

Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile.

Since the Second Vatican Council (1962-5), the Catholic Church has formally declared the possibility of salvation for atheists: 'those who, without fault, have not yet arrived at an express recognition of God' (Lumen Gentium 16).

Spectres of False Divinity presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes.

Heralded as the exponents of a 'new atheism', critics of religion are highly visible in today's media, and include the household names of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris.

Atheism is often considered to be a negative, dark, and pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposition to religion.

Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical method.

Atheism is often considered to be a negative, dark, and pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposition to religion.

Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work.

Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work.

Analytic theology can flourish in the secular academy, and flourish as authentically Christian theology.

Analytic theology can flourish in the secular academy, and flourish as authentically Christian theology.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

This three-volume work comprises over eighty essays surveying the history of Scottish theology from the early middle ages onwards.

In Christmas as Religion, Christopher Deacy explores the premise that religion plays an elementary role in our understanding of the Christmas festival, but takes issue with much of the existing literature which is inclined to limit the contours and parameters of 'religion' to particular representations and manifestations of institutional forms of Christianity.

In Christmas as Religion, Christopher Deacy explores the premise that religion plays an elementary role in our understanding of the Christmas festival, but takes issue with much of the existing literature which is inclined to limit the contours and parameters of 'religion' to particular representations and manifestations of institutional forms of Christianity.

John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain because he had not lost his religion but never had any.

John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain because he had not lost his religion but never had any.

In recent years, the extent to which contemporary societies are secular has come under scrutiny.