Atheism Books

New and Published Books

1. A History of Atheism in Britain

   From Hobbes to Russell

   By David Berman

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism. This first history of British atheism, first published in 1987, tries to explain this reaction while exhibiting the development of atheism from Hobbes to Russell. Although avowed atheism appeared surprisingly late – 1782 in...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Experience, Explanation and Faith

   An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

   By Anthony O'Hear

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   In this book Anthony O’Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between the personal Creator of the Bible or the Koran and a God conceived of as the...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Value and Reality

   The Philosophical Case for Theism

   By Alfred Cyril Ewing

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   This is a major work by one of the best-known philosophical writers, representing the culmination of some twenty-five years’ work on the possibility of giving a rational defence of the claims of the religious man, and specifically the theist, in the face of modern criticisms. Dr Ewing’s object has...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Making Sense of the Secular

   Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia

   Edited by Ranjan Ghosh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism – and...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Ethics without Morals

   In Defence of Amorality

   By Joel Marks

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human...

   Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge