The Cambridge Companion to Atheism
by Michael Martin
Michael Martin's Companion is an excellent survey of a wide range of topics with which the phenomenon of atheism is concerned. It will be a valuable resource for courses on the philosophy of religion and belief and unbelief today. Nevertheless, one drawback of the volume is the sense that one is often drawn into the tug-of-war between atheism and theism rather than in the attempt to move beyond the well-trodden paths of these binary oppositions. In both negative and positive forms atheism sometimes emerges as sharing some of the traits of fundamentalist religions. If atheism is to move forward as a belief system it will have to negotiate the winding curves of a postmodern world which mixes and matches much more eclectically than some of the voices in this fine volume seem to want to believe.
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