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This book deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism—methodologically as well as conceptually—from the perspective of cultural pluralism. What does 'atheism' mean in different cultural contexts? Can this term be applied appropriately to different religious discourses which conceptualize God/gods/Goddess/goddesses (and also godlessness) in hugely divergent ways? Is my 'God' the same as yours? If not, then how can your atheism be the same as mine? In other words, this volume raises the question: Is it not high time that we proposed a comparative study of atheism(s) alongside that of religions, rather than believing that atheism is centered in the 'Western' experience? Apart from answering these questions, the book highlights the much-needed focus on the philosophical negotiations between atheism, theism and agnosticism. The fine chapters collected here present pluralist negotiations with the notion of atheism and its ethical, theological, literary and scientific corollaries.
Previously published in Sophia Volume 60, issue 3, September 2021
Chapters "Religious Conversion and Loss of Faith: Cases of Personal Paradigm Shift?" and "On Being an Infidel" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Contents
Atheisms: Plural Contexts of Being Godless.- Correction to: Atheisms: Plural Contexts of Being Godless.- Defining 'Religion' and 'Atheism'.- Has God Been and Gone?.- Religious Conversion and Loss of Faith: Cases of Personal Paradigm Shift?.- On Being an Infidel.- Confessions of an Agnostic: Apologia Pro Vita Sua.- The Missing God of Heidegger and Karl Jaspers: Too late for God; too Early for the Gods—with a vignette from Indian Philosophy.- Atheism is Nothing but an Expression of Buddha-Nature.- From a Certain Point of View... Jain Theism and Atheism.- Pursuits of Belief: Reflecting on the Cessation of Belief.- Zero—a Tangible Representation of Nonexistence: Implications for Modern Science and the Fundamental.- Can Nāstikas Taste Āstika Poetry? Tagore's Poetry and the Critique of Secularity.- 'And Therefore I Hasten to Return My Ticket': Anti-theodicy Radicalised.- Raimon Panikkar's Cosmotheandric Secularity, Wilber'sIntegral Theory: Living With and Without the Divine.- Postsecularity and the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, and Carol Ann Duffy.- Correction to: Postsecularity and the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, and Carol Ann Duffy.- 'Do You Believe in God, Doctor?' The Atheism of Fiction and the Fiction of Atheism.- Spinning Solitude: Coronavirus and the Philosopher.- Correction to: Spinning Solitude: Coronavirus and the Philosopher.- Review of Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy: Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions.
