Religion and the New Atheism -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Series Editor Preface -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: What is the New Atheism? -- I. Religion and the New Atheism -- 2. Judaism and Atheism: The Challenge of Secular Humanism -- 3. Beating 'God' to Death: Radical Theology and the New Atheism -- 4. Religion as Phantasmagoria: Islam in The End of Faith -- II. Science and the New Atheism -- 5. What Has Atheism Ever Done for Science? -- 6. Cognitive Science and the New Atheism -- III. Sociology and the New Atheism -- 7. One-Dimensional Rage: The Social Epistemology of the New Atheism and Fundamentalism -- 8. The New Atheism and Sociology: Why Here? Why Now? What Next? -- 9. The New Atheism and the Secularization Thesis -- 10. The New Atheism and the Empowerment of American Freethinkers -- IV. Philosophy, Ethics and the New Atheism -- 11. Ethics, Out-Group Altruism, and the New Atheism -- 12. Disparate Destinations, Parallel Paths: An Analysis of Contemporary Atheist and Christian Parenting Literature -- 13. Is God a Hypothesis? The New Atheism, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophical Confusion -- Afterword -- About the Authors -- References -- Index.