Being Godless

Ruy Llera Blanes is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Bergen and associate researcher at the Instittue of Social Sciences in Lisbon. Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Ediburgh.

“This [insightful volume] is a much-needed collection of multiple explanations of lived atheisms and non-religion from different settings…[It] will attract anthropologists and the general reader alike.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)“The individual chapters and the introduction all contribute to advancing and nuancing existing theories of ‘non-religion’, religious disaffiliation, atheism, etc., and is, on the whole rather innovative, and well written.” • Anthropological Notebooks“The volume excels at making clear the importance of geographic context in considering non-religion and society while simultaneously presenting research that raises big questions about contemporary non-religion…a sound contribution to the study of non-religion.” • Reading Religion

• Introduction: Godless People, Doubt, and AtheismRuy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-StjepanovicChapter 1. Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary BritainLois LeeChapter 2. Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist MaterialismJacob Copeman and Johannes QuackChapter 3. Atheist Political Cultures in Independent AngolaRuy Llera Blanes and Abel PaxeChapter 4. Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and DoubtPaul-François Tremlett and Fang-Long ShihChapter 5. Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for AnthropologySonja LuehrmannChapter 6. Confessional AnthropologyGalina Oustinova-StjepanovicChapter 7. On Atheism and Non-religion: An AfterwordMatthew EngelkeBibliograpghyIndex