The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief

One glance at the title of the introduction is enough – “against the seductions of misbelief”. Misbelief or wrong belief, and unbelief or no belief at all, is the name of the game for this excellent reference work. It appeared first in 1985 (with the same title and publisher but edited by Gordon Stein) and now reappears with new things along with a lot of good original stuff. Mainstream reference books on religion often marginalize unbelief in all its works – atheism, agnosticism, humanism, rationalism, skepticism, verificationism, secularism – although secularization theses (that the world in increasingly so, that it...