Apisteology

The Study of Not-Believing

Jack David Eller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
9781041046356 (ISBN)

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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 what 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 it 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 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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781041046356 / 9781041046356
Zustand	Neuware