Introduction: The Study of Atheism, Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse 1: Definitions and Debates 1. Defining Atheism, Stephen Bullivant 2. The Case against Atheism, T. J. Mawson 3. Critiques of Theistic Arguments, A. C. Grayling 4.
Arguments for Atheism, Graham Oppy 5. Problems of Evil, Michael L. Peterson 6. Atheism and Morality, Erik J. Wielenberg 7. Atheism and the Meaningfulness of Life, Kimberly A. Blessing 8. Aquinas and Atheism, Brian Davies 2: History of (Western) Atheism 9.
The Pre-Socratics to the Hellenistic Age, David Sedley 10. The Roman Empire to the End of the First Millennium, Mark Edwards 11. The Medieval Period, Dorothea Weltecke 12. Renaissance and Reformation, Denis Robichaud 13. The Age of Enlightenment, Alan Charles Kors 14. The (Long) Nineteenth Century, David Nash 15. The Twentieth Century, Callum Brown 16. New Atheism, Thomas Zenk 3: Worldviews and Systems 17.
Humanism, Stephen Law 18. Existentialism, Alison Stone 19. Marxism, Peter Thompson 20. Analytic Philosophy, Charles Pigden 21. Jewish Atheism, Jacques Berlinerblau 22. Buddhism, Andrew Skilton 23. Jainism, Anne Vallely 24. Hinduism, Jessica Frazier 4: Atheism and the Natural Sciences 25.
Naturalism and the Scientific Method, Michael Ruse 26. Atheism and the Rise of Science, Taner Edis 27. Atheism and Darwinism, David P. Barash 28. Atheism and the Physical Sciences, Victor J. Stenger 5: Atheism and the Social Sciences 29. Atheism and the Secularization Thesis, Frank L. Pasquale and Barry A.
Kosmin 30. Psychology of Atheism, Miguel Farias 31. Atheism and Cognitive Science, Jonathan Lanman 32. Atheism and Societal Health, Phil Zuckerman 33. Atheism, Gender, and Sexuality, Melanie A. Brewster 34. Atheism, Health and Well-being, Karen Hwang 35. Conversion and Deconversion, Ralph W.
Hood and Zhuo Chen 6: Global Expressions 36. A World of Atheism: Global Demographics, Ariela Keysar and Juhem Navarra-Rivera 37. Western Europe, Lois Lee 38. North America, Ryan T. Cragun, Joseph H. Hammer, Jesse M. Smith 39. Central and Eastern Europe, Irena Borowik, Branko An%c?, Rados?aw Tyra?a 40.
Islamic World, Samuli Schielke 41. India, Johannes Quack 42. Japan, Sarah Whylly 7: Atheism and the Arts 43. Literature, Bernard Schweizer 44. Visual Arts, J. Sage Elwell 45. Music, Paul Bertagnolli 46. Film, Nina Power.