Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
12. Are There Atheistic Religions?
Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
Teemu Taira [+]
University of Helsinki
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Teemu Taira is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, University of Helsinki. His publications include Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred (Ashgate 2013, co-authored with Kim Knott & Elizabeth Poole), Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill 2022) and more than 70 articles in journals and edited volumes.
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This chapter discusses whether the concept of atheistic religion makes sense and in what conditions. It suggests that the question about atheistic religions raises another, perhaps more interesting question: “What is at stake when people make claims about some religion being atheistic?”