The paper focuses on A. Nixon's approach to understanding new atheism as a new relevant form of religiosity in society. Analysis of the dissertation study helps to understand how the author's position was formed and what is the methodology for his understanding of new atheism. Nixon defines his task when discussing the history of free thought in an attempt to contextually analyze the antireligious movement of the 21st century (new atheists and subgroups). His historical analysis of irreligia is a story that focuses on the appearance of differences between groups over time and the motives for such divergence and the appearance of groups. He links the measurements he discovered in his research to a longer history of the anti-religious movement.
In this study, it is proposed to consider possible forms of returning a person's true essence to the context of his social existence. Two forms of "returning" the true essence of man to the social space are proposed: utopia and religion. The mechanism of return through utopia is the concept of a "complete metamorphosis" of a person and a special point of "out-of-place", and through religion - the transcending activity of a person as a special kind of individual responsibility.
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