Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>Did you know <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/NewAtheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewAtheism</span></a> is being ressurected in <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a>?</p><p>I'm not talking about the <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/FourHorsemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FourHorsemen</span></a> or their white, middle class disciples (but there is a connection!)</p><p>- "old <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atheism</span></a>" associated with <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/rationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rationalism</span></a> and <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> in a region of South India (<a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Kerala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kerala</span></a>)<br>- there, new atheism was introduced in part by dissemination of Western <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/newAtheists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newAtheists</span></a> (now spread in <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/esSENSEglobal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>esSENSEglobal</span></a>'s Summer camps and other church-like activities)<br>- India's new atheism seems linked to <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/caste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caste</span></a> and <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/neoliberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberal</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>