Beyond New Atheism and Theism: A Sociology of Science, Secularism, and Religiosity

Focusing on the debates between the New Atheists and theists, this book addresses the failings in understanding on both sides, arguing for a sociological perspective on religion, God and science as a practice, together with a critical realist approach to the nature of the real world as we experience it.

Sal Restivo is a retired sociologist/anthropologist who has held professorships and endowed chairs at universities in the United States, Canada, Europe, and China. He is a founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and he specializes in the sociology of science and religion. He is the editor-in-chief of Oxford’s Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia (2005). His most recent books are Einstein’s Brain: Genius, Culture and Social Networks (2020), Society and the Death of God (2021), Inventions in Sociology: Studies in Science and Society (2022), and The Social Brain: Sociological Foundations (2023).