John R. Shook is a Research Associate in Philosophy, University at Buffalo, NY, and also Lecturer in Philosophy at Bowie State University, MD. He co-edits the journal Contemporary Pragmatism. Authored or edited books include The God Debates (2010), Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy, and Pragmatism (2014), Dewey's Social Philosophy (2014), and the Oxford Handbook of Secularism (2017).

This book presents an overview of the development of atheology from ancient thought to the present day. Shook shows how a familiarity with atheology's complex histories, forms, and strategies illuminates the contentious features of today's atheist and secularist movements, which are just as capable of contesting each other as opposing religion.

1. The Overture 2. Atheists and Atheism 3. Atheology and Theology 4. Methods and Modes of Atheology 5. Atheology's Ancient Heritage 6. European Atheologies 7. Rationalist Athology 8. Scientific Atheology 9. Moral Atheology 10. Civil Atheology 11. Complete Atheology