1st Edition

Apisteology The Study of Not-Believing

By Jack David Eller Copyright 2025
214 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book unites the burgeoning scholarly literature on not-believing in various disciplines into a proposed new field of apisteology. It demonstrates that not-believing—like not-knowing—is a worthy and distinct subject and not merely a vacuum where belief (like knowledge) is lacking. Several contemporary issues appear repeatedly in the book, such as conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism,... Read more

Introduction: Not-Believing as a Subject for Study

1. Conceiving Belief and Not-Belief

2. Apisteology as a Field of Study

3. Philosophy and Apisteology

4. Psychology and Apisteology

5. Neuroscience and Apisteology

6. Sociology and Apisteology

7. Anthropology and Apisteology

8. Fake News: A Case Study for Apisteology

Biography

Jack David Eller is a cultural anthropologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology with Woxsen University in Hyderabad, India. His research interests include religion, psychological anthropology, violence, and ethnicity and diversity. An experienced teacher and author, his other books for Routledge include Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives; Introducing Anthropology of Religion; and Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century.