[Commlist] New open access book: Global Sceptical Publics: From nonreligious print media to ‘digitalatheism’ (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Global Sceptical 
Publics: From nonreligious print media to ‘digital atheism’, edited by 
Jacob Copeman and Mascha Schulz.
 Download it free: https://bit.ly/3VVadOy

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Global Sceptical Publics >From nonreligious print media to ‘digital 
atheism’ Edited by Jacob Copeman and Mascha Schulz
Free download: https://bit.ly/3VVadOy
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Diverse media ranging from print publications and TV series to ‘new’ 
forms of social media are crucial for producing and participating in 
nonreligious publics, debates, controversies and activism. Notably, 
different media forms can result in distinct dynamics. With some 
chapters focusing on locations hitherto barely considered by scholarship 
on nonreligion, Global Sceptical Publics places in comparative 
perspective the diverse ways in which a variety of religious sceptics, 
doubters and atheists engage with different forms of media as both means 
of communication and forming nonreligious publics.

Extending insights from studies of nonreligion to media contexts and 
vice versa, the volume asks questions such as: what means do 
nonreligious people employ to publicise their scepticism? What kinds of 
publics are thereby created? Are such publics directed primarily at 
educating ‘the public’ or are they instead means for seeking like-minded 
individuals for community creation? How do mediated nonreligious publics 
and publicity vary depending on the location and time? Might the 
internet, in markedly religious countries, have a community-building 
function in allowing formerly isolated individual atheists to locate and 
interact with likeminded persons?

With authors from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, the book 
contributes new insights to the growing field of nonreligion studies, 
showing in particular how ‘sceptical publics’ can unsettle the often 
self-evident construction of ‘the public sphere’.

Free download: https://bit.ly/3VVadOy
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