A manual for creating atheists / Peter Boghossian ; foreword by Michael Shermer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boghossian, Peter G. (Peter Gregory), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atheism.

Rationalism.

Faith and reason.

Religion--Controversial literature.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Pitchstone Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith-and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, A Manual for Creating Atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith-but for talking them out of it. Peter Bogho

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1: Street Epistemology; Chapter 2: Faith; Chapter 3: Doxastic Closure, Belief, and Epistemology; Chapter 4: Interventions and Strategies; Chapter 5: Enter Socrates; Chapter 6: After the Fall; Chapter 7: Anti-Apologetics 101; Chapter 8: Faith and the Academy; Chapter 9: Containment Protocols; Acknowledgments; Appendixes; Glossary; References; About the Author; Other Titles from Pitchstone

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-939578-88-4