Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.

Roy Llera Blanes is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council.

Introduction: Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism
Ruy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Chapter 1. Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary Britain
Lois Lee

Chapter 2. Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist Materialism
Jacob Copeman and Johannes Quack

Chapter 3. Atheist Political Cultures in Independent Angola
Ruy Llera Blanes and Abel Paxe

Chapter 4. Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt
Paul-François Tremlett and Fang-Long Shih

Chapter 5. Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for Anthropology
Sonja Luehrmann

Chapter 6. Confessional Anthropology
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Chapter 7. On Atheism and Non-religion: An Afterword
Matthew Engelke

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