Global Sceptical Publics is the first major study of the significance of different media for the (re)production of non-religious publics and publicity. While much work has documented how religious subjectivities are shaped by media, until now the crucial role of diverse media for producing and participating in religion-sceptical publics and debates has remained under-researched. With some chapters focusing on locations hitherto barely considered by scholarship on non-religion, the book places in comparative perspective how atheists, secularists and humanists engage with media - as means of communication and forming non-religious publics, but also on occasion as something to be resisted. Its conceptually rich interdisciplinary chapters thereby contribute important new insights to the growing field of non-religion studies and to scholarship on media and materiality more generally.

List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword: the frustrating and wonderful ambiguity of sceptical publics
Joseph Blankholm
Introduction: Non-religion, atheism and sceptical publicity
Jacob Copeman and Mascha Schulz
Part I Aesthetics and visual culture of non-religion
1 Rationalist camera: non-religious techniques of vision in India
Jacob Copeman and John Hagström
2 Performing the secular: street theatre and songs as 'secular media' in Bangladesh and West Bengal
James Bradbury and Mascha Schulz
3 'There is no god, Summer': a critical evaluation of Rick and Morty's approach to atheism and nihilism
Frank Bosman
4 Aesthetics of the secular
Stefan Binder
5 Gender, affect and atheism on Arabic media
Natalie Khazaal
Part II Mediated scepticism: historical and contemporary trajectories
6 'Apostates': a new secularising public in the United Kingdom
John Hagström
7 Satan, sex and an Islamist zombie apocalypse: religion-sceptical publicity and and blasphemy in Turkish cartoons and comic books
Pierre Hecker
8 From campaign and dispute to 'public service broad/narrowcasting': secularist and atheist media strategies in Britain and America - a contextual history
David Nash
Part III Atheism and scepticism in a digital age
9 Intimate deconversions: digital atheist counterpublics on Reddit
Eric Chalfant
10 Pumpkins at the centre of Mars and circlejerks: Do atheists find community online?
Evelina Lundmark
11 From 'talking among' to 'talking back'? Online voices of young Moroccan non-believers
Lena Richter
12 Ungodly visuals: confrontations, religion and affect in the everyday lives of atheists in India
Neelabh Gupta
Afterword: paradox laxity and unwordy indifference:non-religious figurations beyond emancipatory narratives and declamatory genres
Johannes Quack
Index

Jacob Copeman is Research Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and Distinguished Researcher (Oportunius).
Mascha Schulz is a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC project 'Religion and its Others in South Asia and the World (ROSA)' and based at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Germany).