Gordon Sammut

'The Root of all Evil?'

Religious Belief and its Consequences

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In January 2006, a documentary entitled 'The Root of all Evil?'' was presented by Prof. Richard Dawkins on British television. In this documentary, Dawkins advanced a number of arguments against religion and in favour of atheism. This book reports a study that looked at the introduction of Dawkins'' ideas and their circulation in the British public, through argumentation analyses of the documentary and articles which appeared in the British press. Subsequent interviews undertaken with people who expressed a belief in a supernatural faith and others who did not revealed two prevailing representations: that of religion as good, and that of reli… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-8383-3871-2
EAN: 9783838338712
Produktnummer: 37834700
Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.6 cm 161 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 161

Über den Autor

GORDON SAMMUT is Associate Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Malta and a doctoral candidate in social psychology at the LSE. His work has concerned the study of religious beliefs, rights of worship, as well as economic and political beliefs and intercultural relations.