God is dead : secularization in the West / by Bruce, Steve, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…The secularization paradigm -- The golden age of faith -- God is dead : Christianity in Britain -- The failure of the New Age -- Science and secularization -- The easternization of the west -- Regression to the mean -- Subsistence religion -- The charismatic movement and secularization -- Discovering religion : mistakes of method -- Religion in the United States --- Postmodernism and religious revival.…”


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The question concerning technology, and other essays by Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976

Table of Contents: “…The word of Nietzsche: "God is dead" --…”


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Nietzsche and philosophy by Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995

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Heidegger & Nietzsche

Table of Contents: “…Preservation-Enhancement as Value-Positing Metaphysics in Heidegger's Essay "The Word of Nietzsche: 'God is Dead'" /…”
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Existentialism and the philosophical tradition by Raymond, Diane Christine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Existentialism and theism: Kierkegaard's contribution to existentialism -- 3. God is dead and we have murdered him: Nietzsche and the attack on morality -- 4. …”


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Greek religion by Burkert, Walter, 1931-2015

Table of Contents: “…Prehistory and the Minoan-Mycenaean age -- Ritual and sanctuary -- The gods -- The dead, heroes, and Chthonic gods -- Polis and polytheism -- Mysteries and asceticism -- Philosophical religion.…”


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Rational man : a modern interpretation of Aristotelian ethics by Veatch, Henry Babcock

Table of Contents: “…-- Bad luck and the force of circumstances as the causes of failure -- But what if God is dead? -- Existentialism and the claims of irrational man.…”


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Night : with related readings by Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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Myth and modern man. by Patai, Raphael, 1910-1996

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Myth interpretation through the ages -- Students of man into mythopoets -- Myth and history -- Myths of the future -- The myth of the Marxist world -- The Nazi myth -- The case of Che, or: he must first die -- Marion Delgado, or: the myth of the child terrorist -- Religion as myth in modern life -- New myths for old faiths -- The myth of demythologizing -- The myth of demythologizing -- The myth of the god who died, or: the "god is dead" theology -- Myths for new Black faiths -- Herakles in America -- The "Mickey" myth -- The myths of oral gratification, or: Coke and smoke -- Madison Avenue myth and magic -- Jerry, Whitey, and Baby -- The destructive myth: self-castration and suicide -- The new sex myth -- The myth of planetary escpe -- Wanted: a charter myth for democracy.…”


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Albert Camus, the stranger by McCarthy, Patrick, 1941-2007

Table of Contents: “…-- Class and race -- Arab is somehow murdered -- Arab forgotten and a mother appeased -- Meursalt judges the judges -- God is dead and Existentialism is born -- Early Camus and Sarte: Cycle of the absurd -- Different views of freedom -- Why and how we read the Stranger: Contemporaries, precursors and followers -- Suggestions for further reading -- Translations -- Lo Straniero.…”


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Why should Jews survive? : looking past the Holocaust toward a Jewish future by Goldberg, Michael, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- The holocaust cult -- Is the only good god a dead god? -- A new Sinai, a new Torah, and the 614th commandment -- The household of Israel: is anybody home besides Anne Frank and Eleazar Ben Ya'ir? …”
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The meaning of the death of God : Protestant, Jewish and Catholic scholars explore atheistic theology

Table of Contents: “…Novak--Is God dead? By R. Adolfs.--God-is-dead theology, by E.B. Borowitz.--Taking the death of God seriously, by E.W. …”


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Philosophers without gods meditations on Atheism and the secular life

Table of Contents: “…Taylor -- Disenchantment / David Owens -- Religion and respect / Simon Blackburn -- Reasonable religious disagreements / Richard Feldman -- If God is dead, is everything permitted? / Elizabeth Secord Anderson -- Divine evil / David Lewis -- Meta-atheism: religious avowal as self-deception / Georges Rey -- Faith and Fanaticism / Jonathan E. …”
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God's funeral by Wilson, A. N., 1950-

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Comic relief : Nietzsche's Gay science by Higgins, Kathleen Marie

Table of Contents: “…; Interlude 3: A Fool's Cap, Above All; FIVE: God Is Dead; Interlude 4: Become Who You Are; SIX: Eternal Recurrence: Not Again!…”
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Coping with scientific and social change : Christianity in the 19th and 20th centuries

Table of Contents: “…Industry Crushes Faith (3:43) -- Christians Ignore Their Call (2:11) -- The Salvation Army Responds to Suffering (1:09) -- The Oxford Movement (3:41) -- England's Gothic Architecture Revival (2:09) -- Scrutinizing God (2:07) -- Geologists Question Creation (2:07) -- Resistance to Charles Darwin and Evolution (3:42) -- Science Overtakes Religion (1:38) -- Nietzsche: God is Dead (2:21) -- 20th Century World Events Erode Christianity (3:23) -- Consumerism and Spiritual Quests (1:44) -- New Age Spirituality (1:42) -- The Evangelical Movement (2:10) -- Mainstream Christianity in the New Millennium (4:42) -- Validating the World's Religions (1:22) -- Diversity Within Christianity (2:10) -- Future of the Christian Church (3:24)…”
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Coping with scientific and social change Christianity in the 19th and 20th centuries

Table of Contents: “…Industry Crushes Faith (3:43) -- Christians Ignore Their Call (2:11) -- The Salvation Army Responds to Suffering (1:09) -- The Oxford Movement (3:41) -- England's Gothic Architecture Revival (2:09) -- Scrutinizing God (2:07) -- Geologists Question Creation (2:07) -- Resistance to Charles Darwin and Evolution (3:42) -- Science Overtakes Religion (1:38) -- Nietzsche: God is Dead (2:21) -- 20th Century World Events Erode Christianity (3:23) -- Consumerism and Spiritual Quests (1:44) -- New Age Spirituality (1:42) -- The Evangelical Movement (2:10) -- Mainstream Christianity in the New Millennium (4:42) -- Validating the World's Religions (1:22) -- Diversity Within Christianity (2:10) -- Future of the Christian Church (3:24)…”
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New Poetic : Yeats to Eliot. by Stead, C. K.

Table of Contents: “…FC; Half title; Also available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Conventions; Introduction; 1 Art and Reason; Plato or Socrates; Apollo and Dionysus; Art and life; Plato and the poets; Wine and song; Divine madness; 2 Being; Metaphysics; Essence and existence; Forms; God; God is dead; Nihilism; Eternal return; 3 Becoming; Heraclitus; Will to power; Historical background; Reality and truth; Nietzsche and science; Plato on becoming; 4 Noble and Good; Kalokagathia; Objectivism and relativism; Eudaimonia; Soul over body; Decadence; Masters and slaves.…”
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Camus : the Stranger.

Table of Contents: “…-- 6 Class and race -- 7 An Arab is somehow murdered -- 8 An Arab forgotten and a mother appeased -- 9 Meursault judges the judges -- 10 God is dead and Existentialism is born -- Chapter 3 Early Camus and Sartre -- 11 The cycle of the absurd -- 12 Different views of freedom -- Chapter 4 Camus and the Algerian war -- Chapter 5 Why and how we read The Stranger: a guide to further reading -- 13 Contemporaries, precursors and followers -- 14 Suggestions for further reading -- 15 Translations -- 16 Lo Straniero.…”
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The making of Black revolutionaries : a personal account by Forman, James, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…A constant struggle : Driven insane -- Childhood and Coca-Cola -- Roots of the black manifesto -- Ready to kill -- A family fight -- Dreams and a .38 colt -- Corrupt black preachers -- You're in the army now -- Okinawa-a bad dream -- Feeling like a new car -- God is dead: a question of power -- Keep your pride -- Time for action -- The great white rat -- Georgia Mae hard times -- Forgetting the people -- Diary of Fayette -- Lucretia Collins: "the spirit of Nashville" -- Violence or nonviolence -- The klan and a frame-up -- The kissing case -- Robert Williams versus Roy Wilkins -- No room at the swimming pool -- Eruption in Newton -- Moment of death -- Strong black women -- Inside the Monroe jail -- Justice, Monroe style -- II. …”


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