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A Qualitative Study of Black Atheists

Author : Daniel Swann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498592406
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book A Qualitative Study of Black Atheists written by Daniel Swann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Qualitative Study of Black Atheists: "Don’t Tell Me You’re One of Those" is an interdisciplinary examination of a group that is rarely the study of inquiry, Black Atheists. Using in-depth, qualitative interviews, Daniel Swann builds a foundation for understanding Black Atheist identities, how Black Atheists conceive of themselves, how they perceive, internalize, and manage stigma, how they view in-group belonging, and how they understand their experiences as Atheists to be racialized. The author argues these unique circumstances have produced a distinctive identity at this particular intersection of race and religion.

The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience

Author : Jerome P Baggett
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479867225
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience written by Jerome P Baggett and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the breadth of social, emotional, and spiritual experiences of atheists in America Self-identified atheists make up roughly 5 percent of the American religious landscape, comprising a larger population than Jehovah’s Witnesses, Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus combined. In spite of their relatively significant presence in society, atheists are one of the most stigmatized groups in the United States, frequently portrayed as immoral, unhappy, or even outright angry. Yet we know very little about what their lives are actually like as they live among their largely religious, and sometimes hostile, fellow citizens. In this book, Jerome P. Baggett listens to what atheists have to say about their own lives and viewpoints. Drawing on questionnaires and interviews with more than five hundred American atheists scattered across the country, The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience uncovers what they think about morality, what gives meaning to their lives, how they feel about religious people, and what they think and know about religion itself. Though the wider public routinely understands atheists in negative terms, as people who do not believe in God, Baggett pushes readers to view them in a different light. Rather than simply rejecting God and religion, atheists actually embrace something much more substantive—lives marked by greater integrity, open-mindedness, and progress. Beyond just talking about or to American atheists, the time is overdue to let them speak for themselves. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in joining the conversation.

Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics

Author : Evelina Lundmark
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000842924
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics written by Evelina Lundmark and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process. Building on a YouTube case study with women vloggers, it presents unique empirical data on non-organized atheism in the United States. Lundmark suggests that the atheist self as performed online exists in tension between a perception of atheism as sinful and amoral in relation to hegemonical Christianity in the U.S., and the hyperrational, male-centered discourse that has characterized the atheist movement. She argues that women atheist vloggers co-effect third spaces of emotive resonance that enable a precarious counterpublicness of performing atheist visibility. The volume offers a valuable contribution to the discussion of how the public, the private, and areas in-between are understood within digital religion, and opens up new space for engaging with the increased visibility of atheist identity in a mediatized society.

Psychology of Black Womanhood

Author : Danielle Dickens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538162814
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Psychology of Black Womanhood written by Danielle Dickens and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology of Black Womanhood is the first textbook to provide an authoritative, jargon-free, affordable, and holistic exploration of the sociohistorical and psychological experiences of Black girls and women in the United States, while discussing the intersection of their identities. The authors include research on young, middle-aged, and maturing women; LGBTQ+ women and non-binary individuals; women with disabilities; and women across social classes. This textbook is firmly rooted in Black feminist, womanist, and psychological frameworks that incorporate literature from related disciplines, such as sociology, Black/African American studies, women’s studies, and public health. Psychology of Black Womanhood speaks to the psychological study of experiences of girls and women of African descent in the United States and their experiences in the context of identity development, education, religion, body image, physical and mental health, racialized gendered violence, sex and sexuality, work, relationships, aging, motherhood, and activism. This textbook has implications for practice in counseling, social work, health care, education, advocacy, and policy.

African American Atheists and Political Liberation

Author : Michael Lackey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813033181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book African American Atheists and Political Liberation written by Michael Lackey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of atheist African American writers poses a substantive challenge to those who see atheism in despairing and nihilistic terms. Lackey argues that while most white atheists mourn the loss of faith, many black atheists--believing the "God-concept" spawns racism and oppression--consider the death of God a cause for personal and political hope. Focusing on a little-discussed aspect of African American literature, this full-length analysis of African American atheists' treatment of God fills a huge gap in studies that consistently ignore their contributions. Examining how a belief in God and His "chosen people" necessitates a politics of superiority and inferiority, Lackey implicitly considers the degree to which religious faith is responsible for justifying oppression, even acts of physical and psychological violence. In their secular vision of social and political justice, black atheists argue that only when the culture adopts and internalizes a truly atheist politics--one based on pluralism, tolerance, and freedom--will radical democracy be achieved. Of primary interest to scholars of African American studies, this volume also will appeal to religious scholars, philosophers, anthropologists, freethinkers, and religious and secular humanists. A recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Michael Lackey is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

Black Lives Matter and the Image of God

Author : Josiah U. Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793619239
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Black Lives Matter and the Image of God written by Josiah U. Young and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Lives Matter and The Image of God: A Theo-Anthropological Study, the author argues that "God’s” future is inseparable from humane values that eschew white supremacy and other modes of self-deification in favor of ethics that cultivate life for all human beings.

Varieties of Atheism in Science

Author : Elaine Howard Ecklund
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197539165
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Atheism in Science written by Elaine Howard Ecklund and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why study atheism among scientists? -- "Tried and found wanting" : how atheist scientists explain religious transitions -- "I am not like Richard:" modernist atheist scientists -- Ties that bind : culturally religious atheists -- Spiritual atheist scientists -- What atheist scientists think about science -- How atheist scientists approach meaning and morality -- From rhetoric to reality : why religious believers should give atheist scientists a chance.

Black and Not Baptist

Author : Donald Barbera
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595287891
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Black and Not Baptist written by Donald Barbera and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known only to each other, they walk among us, invisible and undetected. Now, the secret is out! Atheists exist in the African American community. In the African American community there is an unspoken rule to never air dirty laundry in public, and for years the inner workings of the black community stayed hidden beneath a veil of dark silence, but with integration came a mingling of the races and now few secrets remain. Now, there is one there is one less. Not only do black nonbelievers exist, they walk unnoticed among the "true-believers" along with a host of other religious skeptics and freethinkers. Any hint of atheism or freethought in the African American community remain virtually invisible, camouflaged by indignant denial and indistinct expressions, which help conceal clear atheistic, agnostic or freethought connections . Despite more than 90% of African Americans claiming Christianity, Black and Not Baptist explores how there is a significant chasm between belief and behavior with a searing look at the statistics for adultery, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, gambling and other social problems in both the white and black communities. In the manner of Norm Allen's African American Humanism: An Anthology, Black and Not Baptist exposes another side of the black religious experience with the individual stories of black atheists and agnostics, including a historical and current listing of black freethinkers and nonbelievers similar to Warren Allen Smith's Who's Who in Hell.

The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience

Author : Demetrius K. Williams
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793640491
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience written by Demetrius K. Williams and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience: Piety, Politics, and Protest Demetrius K. Williams examines and explores the ideational importance and rhetorical function of cross language and terminology in the spirituals, conversion narratives, and Black preaching tradition through an ideological lens.

Necropolitics

Author : Christophe D. Ringer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793626804
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Necropolitics written by Christophe D. Ringer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America explores the pernicious and persistent presence of mass incarceration in American public life. Christophe D. Ringer argues that mass incarceration persists largely because the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is a significant part of the religious meaning of America. This book traces representations from the Puritan era to the beginning of the War on Drugs in the 1980s to demonstrate their centrality in this issue, revealing how these images have become accepted as fact and used by various aspects of governance to wield the power to punish indiscriminately. Ringer demonstrates how these vilifying images contribute to racism and political economy, creating a politics of death that uses jails and prisons to conceal social inequalities and political exclusion.

Atheists in America

Author : Melanie E. Brewster
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023153700X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Atheists in America written by Melanie E. Brewster and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features more than two dozen narratives by atheists from different backgrounds across the United States. Ranging in age, race, sexual orientation, and religious upbringing, these individuals address deconversion, community building, parenting, and romantic relationships, providing a nuanced look at living without a god in a predominantly Christian nation. These narratives illuminate the complexities and consequences for nonbelievers in the United States. Stepping away from religious belief can have serious social and existential ramifications, forcing atheists to discover new ways to live meaningfully without a religious community. Yet shedding the constraints of a formal belief system can also be a freeing experience. Ultimately, this volume shows that claiming an atheist identity is anything but an act isolated from the other dimensions of the self. Upending common social, political, and psychological assumptions about atheists, this collection helps carve out a more accepted space for this minority within American society.

Remixed and Reimagined

Author : J.T. Snipes
Publisher : Myers Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1975500814
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Remixed and Reimagined written by J.T. Snipes and published by Myers Education Press. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remixed and Reimagined: Innovations in Religion, Spirituality, and (Inter)faith in Higher Education is a new edited book that invites readers to rethink and re-examine the traditional paradigms in which religion, spirituality, and interfaith (RSI) have been studied within higher education and student affairs settings. This volume introduces new theoretical frameworks that enrich and enliven the study of RSI, making it more dynamic, inclusive, and, most importantly, innovative. It is framed by a commitment to social justice and intersectionality, while centering the narratives of the religiously marginalized. The text is divided into two units. The first unit explores new and emergent frameworks for analyzing and interpreting RSI in higher education and student affairs. The second unit puts various theoretical frameworks into practice, while highlighting the often-marginalized voices of the religiously minoritized. The book concludes with a call for researchers to begin exploring the new proposed horizons within the study of RSI in higher education and student affairs. This text is perfect for graduate level seminars in higher education and student affairs programs. It is also an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars. Perfect for courses such as: Religion in Popular Culture | Religion and Spirituality in Higher Education | Introduction to the Study of Religion | Introduction to Interfaith (Multifaith studies) | Interfaith Dialogue on Campus | Introduction to Queer Studies | Contemporary Issues in LGBTQ Studies | Introduction to Diversity | Masters of Education (Graduate Level) | Politics of Difference | Diversity and Identity | Diverse Issues in Higher Education | Student Affairs

Religious Talk Online

Author : Stephen Pihlaja
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107157412
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Religious Talk Online written by Stephen Pihlaja and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original research that explains how religious conflict is played out on social media.

What If I'm an Atheist?

Author : David Seidman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1582704066
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book What If I'm an Atheist? written by David Seidman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to atheism and nonbelief shares counsel on the challenges of questioning the views of one's upbringing, establishing beliefs about religion and spirituality, and addressing the practical aspects of managing religious occasions.

What It Means to Be Moral

Author : Phil Zuckerman
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640094245
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book What It Means to Be Moral written by Phil Zuckerman and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thoughtful perspective on humans' capacity for moral behavior.” —Kirkus Reviews “A comprehensive introduction to religious skepticism.” —Publishers Weekly In What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life, Phil Zuckerman argues that morality does not come from God. Rather, it comes from us: our brains, our evolutionary past, our ongoing cultural development, our social experiences, and our ability to reason, reflect, and be sensitive to the suffering of others. By deconstructing religious arguments for God–based morality and guiding readers through the premises and promises of secular morality, Zuckerman argues that the major challenges facing the world today—from global warming and growing inequality to religious support for unethical political policies to gun violence and terrorism—are best approached from a nonreligious ethical framework. In short, we need to look to our fellow humans and within ourselves for moral progress and ethical action. “In this brilliant, provocative, and timely book, Phil Zuckerman breaks down the myth that our morality comes from religion—compellingly making the case that when it comes to the biggest challenges we face today, a secular approach is the only truly moral one.” —Ali A. Rizvi, author of The Atheist Muslim

Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility

Author : Claus Dierksmeier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030047237
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility written by Claus Dierksmeier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the principle of liberty in order to revive it. It discusses many different aspects that fall under its three main topics: the metaphysics of freedom, quantitative freedom and qualitative freedom. Open societies worldwide have come under increasing pressure in the last decades. The belief that politics and markets fare best when guided by the principle of liberty presently faces multiple challenges such as terrorism, climate warming, inequality, populism, and financial crises. In the view of its critics, the idea of freedom no longer offers adequate guidance to meet these challenges and should be partially corrected or even entirely replaced by countervailing values. Against the reduction of freedom to the merely quantitative question as to how much liberties individuals call their own, this book draws attention to the qualitative concerns which and whose opportunities society should foster. It argues that, correctly understood, the idea of liberty commits us to defend as well as advance the freedom of each and every world citizen.

Moral Combat

Author : Sikivu Hutchinson
Publisher : Sikivu Hutchinson
ISBN 13 : 9780578071862
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Moral Combat written by Sikivu Hutchinson and published by Sikivu Hutchinson. This book was released on 2011 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word atheism elicits shock, dread, anger, and revulsion among most African Americans. They view atheism as "amoral," heresy, and race betrayal. Historically, the Black Church was a leading force in the fight for racial justice. Today, many black religious leaders have aligned themselves with the Religious Right. While black communities suffer economically, the Black Church is socially conservative on women's rights, abortion, same sex marriage, and church/state separation. These religious "values wars" have further solidified institutional sexism and homophobia in black communities. Yet, drawing on a rich tradition of African American free thought, a growing number of progressive African American non-believers are openly questioning black religious and social orthodoxies. Moral Combat provides a provocative analysis of the political and religious battle for America's soul. It examines the hijacking of civil rights by Christian fascism; the humanist imperative of feminism and social justice; the connection between K-12 education and humanism; and the insidious backlash of Tea Party-style religious fundamentalism against progressive social welfare public policy. Moral Combat also reveals how atheists of color are challenging the whiteness of "New Atheism" and its singular emphasis on science at the expense of social and economic justice. In Moral Combat, Sikivu Hutchinson highlights the cultural influence of African American humanist and atheist social thought in America. She places this tradition within the broader context of public morality and offers a far-reaching vision for critically conscious humanism