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bibliography biography Educational films. Encyclopedias. Internet videos. Videorecording.Huff, Peter A.
Summary: This guide provides an overview essay and approximately 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries that explores the background and significance of atheism and agnosticism in modern society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 HUFStephens, Mitchell
Summary: Looks at the role of atheism in the history and cultural development of the West, examining the accomplishments of often courageous atheists that have promoted science, expanded human liberties, and otherwise advanced culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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Contents: Coming to terms -- A bugaboo epithet -- The methodology of atheism -- Occam's Razor -- Belief and doubt -- Belief and knowledge -- Ayn Rand's theory of knowledge -- Belief and free will -- Cognitive determinism -- Thomas Aquinas -- John Locke -- Why philosophy? -- The career of reason -- Francis Bacon -- Theology and metaphysics -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Metaphysical muddles: the ontological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.8 SMIStokes, Mitch.
Summary: "In A Shot of Faith to the Head, Mitch Stokes, Senior Fellow of Philosophy at New Saint Andrews College, dismantles the claims of skeptics and atheists, while constructing a simple yet solid case for Christian belief. This profound yet accessible book proves the rationality, consistency, and reliability of the Christian approach to science and life."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261 STOContents: Now more important than ever : voices of reason / Russell -- Blackford and Udo Schüklenk -- Unbelievable! / Russell Blackford -- My "bye bull" story / Margaret Downey -- How benevolent is God? : an argument from suffering to atheism / Nicholas Everitt -- A deal-breaker / Ophelia Benson -- Why am I a nonbeliever? : I wonder... / J.L. Schellenberg -- Wicked or dead : reflections on the moral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley-Blackwell 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.8 FIFGray, John
Summary: For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a narrow derision of religion in the name of an often very vaguely understood 'science'. John Gray's stimulating and extremely enjoyable new book describes the rich, complex world of the atheist tradition, a tradition which he sees as in many ways as rich as that of religion itself, as well as being deeply intertwined with what is so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 GRAJillette, Penn.
Summary: The outspoken half of magic duo Penn & Teller presents an atheist reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments, discussing why doubt, skepticism, and wonder should be celebrated and offering humorous stories from his own experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.607 JILComte-Sponville, André.
Contents: Can we do without religion? -- Does God exist? -- Can there be an atheist spirituality? -- Conclusion: Love and truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.8 COMZuckerman, Phil.
Summary: During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of "Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus--and nonbelievers." It was the first time an American president had acknowledged the existence of this rapidly growing segment of the population in such a public forum. And yet the reasons why more and more people are turning away from religion are still poorly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.3 ZUCEnglander, Nathan
Summary: "The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGFeser, Edward.
Contents: Bad religion -- Greeks bearing gifts -- Getting medieval -- Scholastic aptitude -- Descent of the modernists -- Aristotle's revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Augustine's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 FESMyers, PZ (Paul Zachary)
Summary: The creator of the popular science blog "Pharyngula" presents a biting assessment of religious fanaticism that imparts his infectious disdain for such topics as creationism, biblical literalism, and "intelligent design" theory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.8 MYERyrie, Alec
Summary: "Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 RYRTaunton, Larry.
Summary: In The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, Taunton offers a very personal perspective of one of our most interesting and most misunderstood public figures. Writing with genuine compassion and without compromise, Taunton traces Hitchens’s spiritual and intellectual development from his decision as a teenager to reject belief in God to his rise to prominence as one of the so-called “Four Horsemen” of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER TAUBerg, Geoffrey.
Contents: The aggregate of qualities argument -- The man and God comprehension gulf argument -- The 'God has no explanatory value' argument -- The 'this is not the best possible world' argument -- The universal uncertainty argument -- The 'some of God's defining qualities cannot exist' argument.
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n.,] 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil BergChopra, Deepak
Summary: "Can God be revived in a skeptical age? What would it take to give people a spiritual life more powerful than anything in the past? Deepak Chopra tackles these issues with eloquence and insight in this book. He proposes that God lies at the source of human awareness. Therefore, any person can find the God within that transforms everyday life. God is in trouble. The rise of the militant atheist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 CHOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit ChopraDawkins, Richard
Summary: A preeminent scientist asserts the irrationallity of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society from the Crusades to 9/11. He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.8 DAWEagleton, Terry
Summary: On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the "superstitious" view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity. There is little joy here, then, either for the anti-God brigade -- Richard Dawkins and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.21 EAGGraffin, Greg.
Summary: Most people know Greg Graffin as the lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion, but few know that he also has a Ph.D. and teaches evolution at UCLA. Here, Graffin argues that art and science have a deep connection. As an adolescent growing up when "drugs, sex, and trouble could be had on any given night," Graffin discovered that the study of evolution provided a framework through which he could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ItBooks 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 210 GRASummary: Key figures either directly or tangentially connected to the progress of atheism-the Baron d'Holbach, Thomas Paine, Jeremy Bentham, Charles Darwin, George Jacob Holyoake, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx-are profiled in this program as Jonathan Miller draws links between atheism and the realms of utilitarian and secularist philosophy, evolutionary science, psychology, and politics. Is religion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Dawkins, Richard
Summary: Explains how the natural world arose without a designer and challenges the basic assumptions of world religions to argue that faith is not a necessary component of good behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Summary: "At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as "the four horsemen," the heralds of religion's unravelling--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett--sat down over cocktails for a filmed discussion. The video of the enthralling, path breaking evening that followed was released on YouTube and soon went viral. This is intellectual inquiry at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019