The object of the study is atheism and theism as important ideological components two opposing solutions to "main question philosophy" – materialism idealism forming systems human life navigation. subject paradigms Soviet Orthodox Christianity. Materialism are fundamental elements Marxist doctrine underlying philosophy culture period Russian history, theism, creationism providentialism Christia...

Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Throughout modernity, the concept of was associated with fatalism and naturalism, when it not simply dismissed as heresy atheism. In nineteenth century, evolved into a central progressive politics, reappearing again in past decades through renewed Marxist Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, feminist discourses. This volume inqui...

Today's society is experiencing an accelerated phenomenon of secularization due to communication through today's media channels. Daily, the global village called Earth transmits billions news, information, cultural and spiritual values beneficial condition contemporary man. We propose analyze on society, but also harmful effects that feels because secularizing informational flow. will show orig...

In ‘secular’ Western societies, religious topics permeate media texts of books, films, series and games and such texts even inform several religious-spiritual movements. Critically expanding on theories about ‘fiction-based religion’, ‘invented religion’ or ‘hyper-real religion’, this article studies if, how and why players of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of...

In recent years, Sam Harris has become a leading figure in the rational scrutiny of religions and religious cultures, earning himself a place as a prominent “New Atheist,” along with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens. To the extent that the New Atheism is a genuine social movement, Harris deserves much of the credit for it. In 2004, he made a dramatic breakthrough when T...

Jayamohan wrote the novel Vishnupuram due to influence of Indian history and philosophy. He re-reading past in background religions philosophies, Vishnupuram. questioned institutions authority that all have genereated so far. The narrative suggests atheism as it moves towards void. At one point text has developed away from him, into separate, automatic writing.

Using a critical, grounded theory approach, we interviewed 31 atheist-identified women to ascertain the ways in which develop and navigate an atheist identity how their experience is influenced by patriarchal, hegemonic Christianity United States using concealable stigmatized framework. Qualitative analysis resulted six core categories: (1) Embracing Atheism as Liberation, (2) Escaping Christia...