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The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View
Abstract
Current debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but they make no impact on believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. Noting that religion is not what atheists think it is, Tim Crane offers a way out of this stalemate.
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“On this point, probably much religious engagement is not sensitive to evidence in the way you would expect if it were expression of belief.”
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“but I think it suggests rather that what the religious are unmoved from isn ' t really belief at all.”
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AHMED, A. (2020) · Religious Studies · doi:10.1017/s0034412519000234 · Cited by 5
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- Authors
- Crane, T.
- Corresponding author
- Crane, Tim
- ORCID
- Crane, Tim
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2017-12-31
- OpenAlex
- W3207544814
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 5.04
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Keywords
- belief, religion, atheism, philosophy of religion, religious beliefs
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