Biblioteka Uniwersytecka

Foreword . . 9
Introduction: The Anatomy of Perestroika . . 11

PART I: IN THE MAKING PERESTROIKA
Perestroika in Retrospective: Historical Consciousness and Responsibility . . 37
The Main Concepts and Actors of Perestroika . . 59
Perestroika and Changed Reporting of Social Problems in Newspapers . . 76
Elite and Perestroika before Perestroika in Hungary . . 97
Perestroika and the Reform Agenda for the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance - New Direction or Dead End? . . 120
Soviet Philosophy and Perestroika - Undoing the Community of Discourse? . . 146

PART II: PERESTROIKA AS A PROCESS
Making Social Discussions Possible: Perestroika and the Development of the Public Sphere . . 171
Soviet Women in the Second World War . . 191
The Politicization of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet Union, 1987-1992 . . 205
The Club in Support of Glasnost and Perestroika in Bulgaria: A Swing-wing Phenomenon . . 222

PART III: AFTER PERESTROIKA
Ethnic Jokes in Russia - A Form of Everyday Racism? . . 247
Reading Perestroika-Era Tension into the Activity of the Pro-Putin Youth Movements . . 262
Russian Death of the Author: More or Less a Poet . . 284
Towards a Fast-Food Reality: The 1990s and the Transformations in Polish Literature . . 312
Women's Strategies for Entrepreneurship and Survival in Russia's Regions . . 330
Bibliography . . 351
Contributors . . 377

Introduction: The Moral Landscape . . 1

Chapter 1: Moral Truth . . 27
Chapter 2: Good and Evil . . 55
Chapter 3: Belief . . 113
Chapter 4: Religion . . 145
Chapter 5: The Future of Happiness . . 177

Acknowledgments . . 193
Notes . . 195
References . . 239
Index . . 281

Foreword . . 9
Introduction . . 15

PART 1: WHY FAITH FAILS
Chapter 1: The Cultures of Christianities . . 25
Chapter 2: Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognirive Science . . 47
Chapter 3: The Malleability of the Human Mind . . 65
Chapter 4: The Outsider Test for Faith Revisited . . 81

PART 2: WHY THE BIBLE IS NOT GOD'S WORD
Chapter 5: The Cosmology of the Bibie . . 109
Chapter 6: The Bibie and Modern Scholarship . . 148
Chapter 7: What We've Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate . . 181

PART 3: WHY THE CHRISTIAN GOD IS NOT PERFECTLY GOOD
Chapter 8: Yahweh Is a Moral Monster . . 209
Chapter 9: The Darwinian Problem of Evil . . 237

PART 4: WHY JESUS IS NOT THE RISEN SON OF GOD
Chapter 10: Jesus: Myth and Method . . 273
Chapter 11: Why the Resurrection Is Unbelievable . . 291
Chapter 12: At Best Jesus Was a Failed Apocalyptic Prophet . . 316

PART 5: WHY SOCIETY DOES NOT DEPEND ON CHRISTIAN FAITH
Chapter 13: Christianity Does Not Provide the Basis for Morality . . 347
Chapter 14: Atheism Was Not the Cause of the Holocaust . . 368
Chapter 15: Christianity Was Not Responsible for Modern Science . . 396

Contributors . . 421