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050	0	0	_aBL2747.3 _b.S363 2021
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100	1		_aScheidt, Hannah K.,
245	1	0	_aPracticing atheism : _bculture, media, and ritual in the contemporary atheist network / _cHannah K. Scheidt.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c[2021]
300			_aviii, 216 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Deconversion narratives: true and enlightened selves -- Scientific myth: science, religion, and atheism in popular television -- Autonomy or authority?: ideology, charism, and patriarchy -- Ritualized debate: order, redemption, and power in a contemporary media practice -- Atheist indoctrination?: practicing atheism in parenthood -- Conclusion: culture war as culture ritual.
520			_a"Practicing Atheism is a cultural study of contemporary atheism, focusing on how atheists negotiate meanings and values through media. This book examines a variety of cultural products, both corporate-driven and grassroots, that circulate messages about what atheism means - what ideas, values, affinities, and attitudes the term denotes. Through the creation, consumption, and exchange of this media, atheism gains positive content, the term signaling much more than lack of belief in god(s) for those who identify with the emergent culture. Primary source materials for this book include grassroots Internet communities, popular television programming, organized atheist events, and material culture representations of the movement, such as those found in atheist fan art. Practicing Atheism argues that atheist culture emerges from a unique tension with religion - a category atheists critique and resist but also, at times, imitate and approximate. Using a framework based on ritual studies, this book theorizes ambivalence, ambiguity, and "in-betweenness" as the essential condition of contemporary atheist culture"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAtheism.
650		0	_aDigital media.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aScheidt, Hannah K., _tPracticing atheism _dNew York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2021. _z9780197536971 _w(DLC) 2020052829
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