Being Godless: Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion / Edition 1

by Roy Llera Blanes, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Overview

Originally published as a special issue of Social Analysis, volume 59, issue 2

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785336287
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Series:	Studies in Social Analysis , #1
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Roy Llera Blanes is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council.

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism
Ruy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Chapter 1. Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary Britain
Lois Lee

Chapter 2. Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist Materialism
Jacob Copeman and Johannes Quack

Chapter 3. Atheist Political Cultures in Independent Angola
Ruy Llera Blanes and Abel Paxe

Chapter 4. Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt
Paul-François Tremlett and Fang-Long Shih

Chapter 5. Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for Anthropology
Sonja Luehrmann

Chapter 6. Confessional Anthropology
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Chapter 7. On Atheism and Non-religion: An Afterword
Matthew Engelke

Bibliograpghy
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This [insightful volume] is a much-needed collection of multiple explanations of lived atheisms and non-religion from different settings...[It] will attract anthropologists and the general reader alike." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)

"The individual chapters and the introduction all contribute to advancing and nuancing existing theories of 'non-religion', religious disaffiliation, atheism, etc., and is, on the whole rather innovative, and well written." - Anthropological Notebooks

"The volume excels at making clear the importance of geographic context in considering non-religion and society while simultaneously presenting research that raises big questions about contemporary non-religion...a sound contribution to the study of non-religion." - Reading Religion

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