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

Wed Feb 15 10:24:57 GMT 2023



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/3FAsviL

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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/3FAsviL
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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/3FAsviL
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