by Martin Marty | Feb 23, 2012 | Opinion
Notice: This is an alert, not a review. Repeat: This is an alert, not a review. In our sights this week – they would be hard to miss – are notices of Alain de Botton’s “Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion.” The... by Martin Marty | Dec 20, 2011 | Opinion
Atheism shows up in my columns on occasion, partly as a refreshing alternative to the overcovered examples of “religion-in-American-public-life” which crowd the cable television channels and headlines: you know, like stories of the piety of quarterback Tim... by Martin Marty | Dec 13, 2011 | Opinion
Atheism now gets more attention than usual when people measure religious trends in North America. More people put the name “atheism” on their a-religiousness than did so decades ago. For the record, my Ph.D. thesis in 1956 was on “unbelief,”... by Vinoth Ramachandra | Aug 3, 2011 | Opinion
The popular philosopher Alain de Botton gave a lecture at a recent TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, on what atheists need to learn from religion. In the blog of the science journal Nature, Philip Campbell reports on what... by Martin Marty | May 31, 2011 | Opinion
“Same Old New Atheism” is a 6,800-word review that places the trendy “New Atheism” in the context of previous efforts to establish scientific positivism in the place of religion. Religion, in turn, is to be done away with, as it’s been...