Apisteology

The Study of Not-Believing
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-04635-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book unites the burgeoning scholarly literature on not-believing in various disciplines into a proposed new field of apisteology. It demonstrates that not-believing—like not-knowing—is a worthy and distinct subject and not merely a vacuum where belief (like knowledge) is lacking. Several contemporary issues appear repeatedly in the book, such as conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism, climate change denial, and fake news. Each chapter begins with a vignette on one of these topics and ends with a section looking ahead to which certain disciplinary approaches to not-believing can tell us. Not only does this format allow us to consider how not-believing is pervasive and distinct, but also allows us to consider what apisteology as a distinct field of study brings to the table. Ultimately, the book’s consistent appeals to the constructed quality of not-believing, to the trust and commitment dimensions of not-believing, and ultimately to the critique of “truth” as the central or only interest in “belief” make it key reading for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eller, Jack David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Not-Believing as a Subject for Study

1. Conceiving Belief and Not-Belief

2. Apisteology as a Field of Study

3. Philosophy and Apisteology

4. Psychology and Apisteology

5. Neuroscience and Apisteology

6. Sociology and Apisteology

7. Anthropology and Apisteology

8. Fake News: A Case Study for Apisteology

Über Autor(innen)

Jack David Eller is a cultural anthropologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology with Woxsen University in Hyderabad, India. His research interests include religion, psychological anthropology, violence, and ethnicity and diversity. An experienced teacher and author, his other books for Routledge include Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives; Introducing Anthropology of Religion; and Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century.