Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Atheism
- The Cambridge History of Atheism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Preliminaries
- Part II Atheisms in History
- Part III Reformation, Renaissance, Enlightenment
- Part IV Classical Modernity: Philosophical and Scientific Currents
- Part V Classical Modernity: Social and Political Currents
- Part VI Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Intellectual and Artistic Currents
- Part VII Lived Atheism in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries: Case-Studies
- Part VIII Emerging Atheisms in the Twenty-First Century
- 54 New Atheism
- 55 The Internet and the Social Media Revolution
- 56 The Atheist Spring? Emerging Non-belief in the Islamic World
- 57 Intersectional Atheisms: Race, Gender, and Sexuality
- 58 Religion for Atheists? Transhumanism, Mindfulness, and Atheist Churches
- 59 Atheism Throughout the World
- Part IX Conclusion
- Index
- References
57 - Intersectional Atheisms: Race, Gender, and Sexuality
from Part VIII - Emerging Atheisms in the Twenty-First Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 September 2021
- The Cambridge History of Atheism
- The Cambridge History of Atheism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Preliminaries
- Part II Atheisms in History
- Part III Reformation, Renaissance, Enlightenment
- Part IV Classical Modernity: Philosophical and Scientific Currents
- Part V Classical Modernity: Social and Political Currents
- Part VI Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Intellectual and Artistic Currents
- Part VII Lived Atheism in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries: Case-Studies
- Part VIII Emerging Atheisms in the Twenty-First Century
- 54 New Atheism
- 55 The Internet and the Social Media Revolution
- 56 The Atheist Spring? Emerging Non-belief in the Islamic World
- 57 Intersectional Atheisms: Race, Gender, and Sexuality
- 58 Religion for Atheists? Transhumanism, Mindfulness, and Atheist Churches
- 59 Atheism Throughout the World
- Part IX Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Intersectionality, which is rooted in black feminist theory, is at the crux of current social justice movements within and beyond atheist communities. Initially theorized and articulated by law professor Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), intersectionality theory asserts that discrimination is multiaxial, not unidimensional, and that holding multiple marginalized identities has a compounding, not additive, effect on life experiences. For example, in the United States, men of color tend to receive harsher prison sentences than white men – with black men receiving even harsher sentences than Hispanic men, and with women receiving more lenient sentences than men overall (Steffensmeier et al. 2016). Thus, prison sentence severity is not a function of any one identity, but rather operates at the nexus of race and gender.
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- The Cambridge History of Atheism , pp. 1059 - 1079Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021