Abstract
Review of The Evolution of Atheism
Highlights
The Evolution of Atheism is a timely addition to a g rowing corpus of scholarly work on contemporary atheism, or what tends to be bracketed under that now-weathered term ‘New Atheism’
Whereas Spencer devotes the bulk of his book to a sequential genealogy of modern atheism, LeDrew has the New Atheists firmly in sight from the outset: ‘This book is about the “New Atheism” and its relationship to a movement for secularism that is well over a hundred years old’ (p. 1)
By taking the New Atheism as a starting point for thinking about secularism rather than an immature latecomer to the game, LeDrew provides an unprecedentedly fine-grained analysis of the tensions crossing through New Atheism and its links to the broader ‘secular movement’, new and old
Summary
The Evolution of Atheism is a timely addition to a g rowing corpus of scholarly work on contemporary atheism, or what tends to be bracketed under that now-weathered term ‘New Atheism’. Whereas Spencer devotes the bulk of his book to a sequential genealogy of modern atheism, LeDrew has the New Atheists firmly in sight from the outset: ‘This book is about the “New Atheism” and its relationship to a movement for secularism that is well over a hundred years old’
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