Atheism For Lent

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During Lent, Ikon is hosting a study and discussion of the book Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism By Merold Westphal (Fordham University Press). To participate, you need to obtain a copy of the book and you should read the required chapters before coming to the group discussion.

Course Outline

  • The hermeneutics of suspicion
  • Freud and the psychoanalysis of the believing soul
  • Marx and the critique of religion as ideology
  • Nietzsche and the critique of religion as resentment

Upcoming Course

Dates:

25th Feb

4th March

11th March

18th March

Facilitator: Michael Davis with special guests Peter Rollins (on Nietzsche), Jon Hatch (on Marx) and Chris Fry (on Freud)

Location: Belfast

Cost: £10 (plus a copy of the book Suspicion and Faith)

If you would like to join the group, please contact Michael.

Previous Courses

  • Lent 2006
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