New Atheism: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates

Christopher R. Cotter is Founding Editor and Podcast Co-Host at the Religious Studies Project, and has recently submitted his doctoral dissertation at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses upon discourses on 'religion', 'non-religion' and 'the secular', and the ensuing theoretical implications for Religious Studies. He is co-editor of Social Identities between the Sacred and the Secular (Ashgate, 2013), and After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies (Routledge, 2016). He is also Co-Director at the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network and Honorary Treasurer of the British Association for the Study of Religions. Philip Andrew Quadrio is a philosopher and criminologist, based at the University of Sydney, who works on crime theory, subjectivity, political philosophy, philosophy of religion and history of philosophy. He is author of Towards a Theory of Organic Relations: Social Theory in Hegel's Early Writings, and has edited several collections including Politics and Religion in the New Century, The Relation of Philosophy to Religion Today, and Infinitely Demanding: Simon Critchley's Neo-Anarchism. Philip is a former President of the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association.Jonathan Tuckett is a phenomenologist specialising in philosophical anthropology, intersubjectivity and religion. His work looks at the ways people are deemed religious as a means of exclusion from norm and knowledge production. He has worked as a teaching fellow for Stirling and Edinburgh. He is currently an independent researcher focusing on what is counted as social science based on who is included and how this has changed due the Research Excellence Framework and publishing industry.