Materialistic and Naturalistic Religions: Atheistic and Humanistic Religions (#03 in World Religion & Cults Series)

In this volume of World Religions and Cults, Hodge and Patterson survey worldviews that either explicitly deny the existence of God, or do not recognise God's role in the world. While it covers some (meta)religious views (atheism, agnosticism, syncretism, etc. ), some of this book looks at worldviews that are not usually thought of as religious (communism, naturalism, empiricism). This builds on the basic idea laid out in vol. 1 of this series: the only kinds of religion are God's and not God's. There is considerably less continuity in this volume than in the previous two, so readers who are interested in a particular topic can go straight to the relevant chapter. The appendices are helpful and provide a good introduction to some particular topics that might arise when engaging atheistic religions.