Becoming atheist: humanism and the secular West
The Western World is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened? Becoming Atheist explores how people of the sixties' generation...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Western World is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened? Becoming Atheist explores how people of the sixties' generation have come to live their lives as if there is no God. It tells the life narratives of those from Britain, Western Europe, the United States and Canada who came from Christian, Jewish and other backgrounds to be without faith. Based on interviews with 85 people born in 18 countries, Callum Brown shows how gender, ethnicity and childhood shape how individuals lose religion. This book moves from statistical and broad cultural analysis to use frank, humorous and sometimes harrowing personal testimony. "Becoming Atheist" exposes people's role in renegotiating their own identities, and fashioning a secular and humanist culture for the Western world |
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CONTENTS
LIST OF
TABLES
VII
PREFACE
VIII
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
IX
1
INTRODUCTION
L
ONE BY ONE 1
IMAGINING
SECULARIZATION 3
OF NUMBERS AND CULTURES 5
WHAT IS THE
SECULAR?
8
RESEARCHING
THE
LITTLE
IMAGINED ATHEIST 12
2 NARRATIVES OF
BELIEF
AND UNBELIEF 20
ORAL
HISTORY AND RELIGION 20
THE CHRISTIAN
SELF
21
THE
FORTIFIED
RELIGIOUS
SELF
26
RACE
AND ETHNICITY 30
THE FEMINIST LIBERATION NARRATIVE 31
SECULARIZATION NARRATIVES 36
CONCLUSION 41
3 THE ATHEIST
CHILD
43
RELIGION AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT 43
RELIGIOUS CHILDHOODS 45
GROWING
UP FAITHLESS 47
CONVERTING THE FAMILY 51
CHILDHOOD
DISAFFECTION 54
THE CHILD ATHEIST 58
'WHAT COLOUR IS LIFE?' THE
YOUTHFUL
MATURATION OF ATHEISM 62
4
THE SILENT AND INDIFFERENT ATHEIST 66
APPROACHING
INDIFFERENCE 66
THE
SILENCE
OF NON-BELIEF 70
VI
CONTENTS
THE
CHARACTER
OF INDIFFERENCE 76
LEAVING INDIFFERENCE 82
5 WOMEN, FEMINISM AND BECOMING
FAITHLESS
87
NARRATING
THE GENDERED NON-RELIGIOUS
SELF
87
ITS REALLY ROTTEN BEING A WOMAN SOMETIMES: TRAUMA AND THE FAMILY 91
'TO BE A PERSON:
LIVING
FEMINISM AND THE
LOSS
OF
RELIGION
96
THE NEW AGE AND ABSOLUTELY NO GOD
THING'
105
FLYING
THROUGH THE AIR 109
6 MEN,
REASON
AND RADICALISM 113
ABSENCES
AND
SILENCES
113
REASON
- THE MALE PREROGATIVE? 115
LEAVING THE PRIESTHOOD 121
READING 126
DESERTING DYSFUNCTION 129
TRAUMA 131
BEING AN ATHEIST MAN 134
7 ATHEISM AND ETHNICITY 137
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN 139
THE
JEWS
144
THE
MUSLIM
150
THE HINDUS 154
THE WHITES 158
ITS NOT FOR ME TO JUDGE HUMANISM 159
8 THE HUMANIST CONDITION 161
AFTER
RELIGION 161
THE HESITANT ATHEIST 163
FINDING
THE HUMANIST CONDITION 168
BECOMING ATHEIST
WITH
A HEART 174
THE TRANSITION GENERATION 182
NOTES
185
SOURCES
210
INDEX
223 |
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