Global sceptical publics : from nonreligious print media to 'digital atheism' /: from nonreligious print media to 'digital atheism'. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jacob Copeman, Mascha Schulz.
• Editors: Copeman, Jacob; Schulz, Mascha
• Contents: List of figures ; Notes on contributors ; Acknowledgements ; Foreword: the frustrating and wonderful ambiguity of sceptical publics; Joseph Blankholm ; Introduction: Non-religion, atheism and sceptical publicity; Jacob Copeman and Mascha Schulz ; Part I Aesthetics and visual culture of non-religion ; 1 Rationalist camera: non-religious techniques of vision in India; Jacob Copeman and John Hagström ; 2 Performing the secular: street theatre and songs as ‘secular media’ in Bangladesh and West Bengal; James Bradbury and Mascha Schulz ; 3 ‘There is no god, Summer’: a critical evaluation of Rick and Morty’s approach to atheism and nihilism; Frank Bosman ; 4 Aesthetics of the secular; Stefan Binder ; 5 Gender, affect and atheism on Arabic media; Natalie Khazaal ; Part II Mediated scepticism: historical and contemporary trajectories ; 6 ‘Apostates’: a new secularising public in the United Kingdom; John Hagström ; 7 Satan, sex and an Islamist zombie apocalypse: religion-sceptical publicity and and blasphemy in Turkish cartoons and comic books; Pierre Hecker ; 8 From campaign and dispute to ‘public service broad/narrowcasting’: secularist and atheist media strategies in Britain and America – a contextual history; David Nash ; Part III Atheism and scepticism in a digital age ; 9 Intimate deconversions: digital atheist counterpublics on Reddit; Eric Chalfant ; 10 Pumpkins at the centre of Mars and circlejerks: Do atheists find community online?; Evelina Lundmark ; 11 From ‘talking among ’ to ‘talking back ’? Online voices of young Moroccan non-believers; Lena Richter ; 12 Ungodly visuals: confrontations, religion and affect in the everyday lives of atheists in India; Neelabh Gupta ; Afterword: paradox laxity and unwordy indifference:non-religious figurations beyond emancipatory narratives and declamatory genres; Johannes Quack; ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 211.8; Atheism; Rationalism; Mass media -- Religious aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800083479; 9781800083448
• Related ISBNs: 9781800083462; 9781800083455
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