The thesis provides the definition and analysis of the term ''New Atheism'' as presented by different authors and considers its related current topics and questions discussed in modern literature and beyond. The theoretical part deals with two of the so-called ''Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse'' (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett), who have fundamentally renewed the established obsolete belief structure of atheism, and extensively presents philosopical ideas of Slavoj Žižek and the activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The analytical part deals with the literary works of those writers whose novels criticise religious structures and traditions, and the authors who have in one way or another tackled the areas of interest of New Atheism as one of the latest approaches in literary criticism. In regard to literary works, particular stress is put on Salman Rushdie and his Satanic Verses.
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