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UTP Insights is an innovative collection of brief books offering accessible introductions to the ideas that shape our world. Each volume in the series focuses on a contemporary issue, offering a fresh perspective anchored in contemporary scholarship. Spanning a broad range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, the books in the UTP Insights series will set the agenda for public discourse and debate, as well as provide valuable resources for students and instructors.
Books in the Series
Paul M. Evans, Engaging China: Myth, Aspiration, and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper
Phil Ryan, After the New Atheist Debate
The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of best-selling books which not only challenged the existence of god, but claimed that religious faith was dangerous and immoral. The New Atheists, as writers such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett have become known, sparked a vicious debate over religions place in modern society.
In After the New Atheist Debate, Phil Ryan offers both an elegant summary of this controversy and a path out of the cul-de-sac that this argument has become. Drawing on the social sciences, philosophy, and theology, Ryan examines the claims of the New Atheists and of their various religious and secular opponents and finds both sides wanting.
Rather than the mutual demonization that marks the New Atheist debate, Ryan argues that modern society needs respectful ethical dialogue in which citizens present their points of view and seek to understand the positions of others. Lucidly written and clearly argued, After the New Atheist Debate is a book that brings welcome clarity and a solid path to the often contentious conversation about religion in the public sphere.
PHIL RYAN is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. His most recent book, Multicultiphobia, was shortlisted for the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences in 2011.
Phil Ryan
University of Toronto Press
Toronto Buffalo London
University of Toronto Press 2014
Toronto Buffalo London
www.utppublishing.com
Printed in the U.S.A.
ISBN 978-1-4426-4952-1 (cloth)
ISBN 978-1-4426-2687-4 (paper)
Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable-based inks.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Ryan, Phil, author After the new atheist debate/Phil Ryan.
(UTP insights) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4426-4952-1 (bound). ISBN 978-1-4426-2687-4 (pbk.)
1. Atheism. 2. Christianity and atheism. I. Title. II. Series: UTP insights
BL2747.3.R93 2014 211'.8 C2014-905021-6
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for its publishing activities.
For John and Aidan,
My philosophers-in-residence
Much political debate betrays the marks of warfare. It consists in rallying the troops and intimidating the other side, which must now increase its efforts or back down. In all this one may find the thought that to have character is to have firm convictions and be ready to proclaim them defiantly to others. To be is to confront.
John Rawls
Biblical quotations use the Revised Standard Version.
| 1 Cor | 1 Corinthians |
| 1 Jn | 1 John |
| 1 Pet | 1 Peter |
| 1 Sam | 1 Samuel |
| 1 Tim | 1 Timothy |
| 2 Pet | 2 Peter |
| 2 Sam | 2 Samuel |
| 2 Tim | 2 Timothy |
| Deut | Deuteronomy |
| Eccles | Ecclesiastes |
| Gal | Galatians |
| Heb | Hebrews |
| Is | Isaiah |
| Jn | John |
| Job | Job |
| Mt | Matthew |
| Phil | Philippians |
| Prov | Proverbs |
| Ps | Psalms |
| Rom | Romans |
| Sir | Sirach* |
* = Deuterocanonical book
The fight over evolution has reached the big, big screen. Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures.
Dean (2005)
Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a nation of secular laws and that the separation of church and state is a lie we have been told to keep religious people out of politics. If youre not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin, Harris told interviewers.
Stratton (2006)
Reports of the religious climate at the Air Force Academy are unsettling: A chaplain instructs cadets to try to convert classmates by warning that they will burn in the fires of hell if they do not accept Christ. During basic training, freshman cadets who decline to attend after-dinner chapel are marched back to their dormitories in heathen flights organized by upperclassmen. A Jewish student is taunted as a Christ killer and told that the Holocaust was the just punishment for that offense. The academys head football coach posts a banner in the locker room that proclaims, I am a Christian first and last I am a member of Team Jesus Christ.
Washington Post (4 June 2005)
A jury heard a recording yesterday of the last frenzied, despairing moments of Flight 93, as passengers stormed the cockpit to prevent hijackers from crashing the United Airlines plane into its presumed target, the US Capitol, on 11 September 2001. Shall we finish it off? the voice of one of the hijackers asks, amid sounds of a desperate struggle as the plane was about to begin its plunge into a Pennsylvania field. Pull it down, pull it down, says another voice, in what appear to be the final instructions to send UA93 to its doom. Then there is heard only repeated cries of Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest, before the 32-minute tape ends.
Cornwell (2006)
Indias increasingly nationalistic government is rewriting school text books to depict Muslims and Christians as alien villains An examination question in the state of Uttar Pradesh asked: If it takes four savaks [Hindu religious workers] to demolish one mosque, how many does it take to demolish 20?
Bates (2000)
Religion in the news does not represent the whole truth about religion in the world. Most believers dont make the news: they lead quiet lives, shaped to a greater or lesser degree by religious beliefs that often help make them more caring and committed people. But while these grim news articles provide a one-sided picture of religion, they do not constitute a simple fabrication.
No one should have been surprised, then, when a series of provocative and lively attacks on religion was published in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the rise of a politically assertive conservative Christianity. Six works give us a fair picture of the genre:
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