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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 72pt"><font size="6">Uppity Unbelievers:</font></span></b></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 72pt"><font size="6">Why (New) Atheism Matters</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Dr. Doug Cowan, Department
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">of Religious Studies,
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><font face="Calibri">Tired of grumpy atheists telling you why
</font></span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><font face="Calibri">you shouldn’t believe in God? Religious
</font></span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><font face="Calibri">Studies’ Doug Cowan tells us why
</font></span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><font face="Calibri">atheism is important and why society
</font></span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><font face="Calibri">needs the (new) atheists. The answers
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><font face="Calibri">may surprise you<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Dr. Cowan is the author of<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Questioning French Secularism: Gender
Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb</i> (2012) and co-editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">
Debating Sharia: Islam, Gender Politics and Family Law Arbitration</i> (2012).</span><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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