Questions about how to negotiate belief and non-belief in social and public spheres are attracting an increasing amount of attention from academics in a range of disciplines, and from concerned members of the public.

Harriet A. Harris is Head of the award-winning Multi-faith and Belief Chaplaincy, and Honorary Fellow of the School of Divinity, at the University of Edinburgh; formerly a member of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford, and a Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter.

Victoria S. Harrison is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macau, China. Until 2016, she was Reader in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she was also Director of the Forum for Philosophy and Religion.

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Introduction: Atheisms and the Power to be Confronted

Harriet A. Harris

1 A Quantum of Solace and a Heap of Doubt

Carl-Reinhold Bråkenhielm

2 Stepping Stone to Atheism?: The Instability of Agnosticism

Robin le Poidevin

3 A New Theist Meets Two Atheists

Jeanine Diller

4 Can an Atheist Display Religiously Significant Attitudes?

Max Baker-Hytch

5 Doxastic and Nondoxastic Atheisms

Christopher Jay

6 Atheists and Idolaters: The Case of John Wren-Lewis (1923-2006)

Stephen R. L. Clark

7 How to Not think about God

Michael McGhee

8 Atheist Aesthetics: A Critical Response

Daniel Gustaffson

9 Belief, Unbelief and Mystery

Karen Kilby

Appendix: Mapping Agnosticism: Comment Inspired by Robin Le Poidevin's 'Stepping Stone to Atheism? The Instability of Agnosticism'

Jeanine Diller

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