Global Sceptical Publics (Copeman Jacob)(Paperback)

Global Sceptical Publics is the first major study of the significance of different media for the (re)production of non-religious publics and publicity. While much work has documented how religious subjectivities are shaped by media, until now the crucial role of diverse media for producing and participating in religion-sceptical publics and debates has remained under-researched. With some chapters focusing on locations hitherto barely considered by scholarship on non-religion, the book places in comparative perspective how atheists, secularists and humanists engage with media ? as means of communication and forming non-religious publics, but also on occasion as something to be resisted. Its conceptually rich interdisciplinary chapters thereby contribute important new insights to the growing field of non-religion studies and to scholarship on media and materiality more generally.Praise for Global Sceptical Publics'When it comes to the burgeoning study of atheists, humanists, and the like, Global Sceptical Publics is just the volume we need. For unbelievers and secularists, media technologies and the promises of the public sphere have long been central to their practical aims and conceptual commitments alike. And now here, between two covers, is an analytically nuanced and empirically rich set of essays showing how and why. It deserves a prominent place on the shelf of any serious student of media, aesthetics, and non-religion.' Matthew Engelke, Columbia University'Global Scept
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