Bill Cooke
Region: Auckland
Books
2006 A Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism, and Humanism
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books) ISBN 1-59102-299-1.
2003 The Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press
Association (London: RPA) ISBN 0-301-00302-5.
Published in the United States in 2004 under the title The Gathering of Infidels: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books) ISBN 1-59102-196-0.
2001 A Rebel to His Last Breath: Joseph McCabe and Rationalism
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books) ISBN 1-57392-878-X.
1998 Heathen in Godzone: Seventy Years of Rationalism in New Zealand (Auckland: NZARH) ISBN 0-473-05392-6.
Contributions to Edited Works/Conference Proceedings
2007 ‘Secularism in New Zealand’, in Dakin, Jim, The Secular Trend in New Zealand, Auckland: NZARH, pp 13-28.
2007 ‘The Necessity of Atheism’, in Vijayam & Vikas Gora (eds) Sixth World Atheist Conference, Atheist Centre, Vijayawada, India, pp 33-6.
2005 ‘Atheism and Social Progress’ in Vijayam and Vikas Gora (eds) Atheism and Social Progress, Fifth World Atheist Conference, Vijayawada, India, pp 3-4.
2003 ‘Rationality is THE Bridge Between East and West’ in Rationality as a Bridge Between East and West, Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up, Abu Dhabi, pp 27-46.
2002 ‘Nietzsche and Heidegger’ and ‘The Value of Naturalism’ in Birx, H James & Delaney, Tim (eds) Values, Society & Evolution (Auburn, NY: Legend, 2002) ISBN 0-9657898-5-3
2000 ‘Prometheus versus Narcissus: The Next Phase of the Conflict’ and ‘Can We Trust the Populariser? A Case Study of Joseph McCabe’s Vision of Science’ in Birx, H James & Kolchinsky, Eduard (eds) Science and Society (St Petersburg:
St Petersburg Branch Institute of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Encyclopaedia Entries
The Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by H James Birx, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications, 2006. ISBN 0-7619-3029-9. ‘Critical Realism’, Vol. 2, pp 598-600; ‘Degenerationism’, Vol. 2, pp 721-722; ‘Haddon, A C’, Vol. 3, pp 1119-1120; ‘Humanism, Secular’, Vol. 3, pp 1248-1251; ‘Keith, Sir Arthur’, Vol. 3, pp 1359-1361; ‘Naturalism’, Vol. 3, pp 1693-1700; ‘Postmodernism’, Vol. 4, pp 1912-1915; ‘Rivers, W H R’, Vol. 5, pp 2025-2026; ‘Smith, Grafton Elliot’ Vol. 5, pp 2092-2093; ‘Wells, H G’, Vol. 5, pp 2309-2310.
The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, edited by Tom Flynn, Amherst, NY: Prometheus
Books, 2007. ISBN 1-59102-391-3. ‘Agathonism’, (pp 32-33); ‘American Secular Union’, (pp 52-53); ‘Anticlericalism’, (pp 76-79); ‘Arnold, Matthew’, (p 81); ‘Arts and Unbelief, The’, (pp 81-86); ‘Besant, Annie’, (pp 121-123); ‘Blanshard, Paul’, (pp 144-145); ‘Boston Investigator’, (p 150); ‘Brecht, Bertolt’, (pp 153-154); ‘Carlile, Eliza Sharples’, (p 169); Carlile, Richard’, (pp 169-170); ‘Chubb, Thomas’, (pp 186-187); ‘Cohen, Chapman’, (pp 202- 203); ‘Colenso, John William’, (p 203); ‘Deathbed Claims Concerning Unbelievers’, (pp 235-237); ‘Deism’, (pp 240-243); ‘Gauvin, Marshall Jerome’, (pp 355-356); ‘Hanlon, James Ogden’, (pp 376-377); ‘Hawton, Hector’, (p 381); ‘Hell-fire Clubs’, (pp 382-383); ‘Heresy’, (pp 385-388); ‘Hetherington, Henry’, (pp 388-389); ‘Hibbert, Julian’, (pp 389- 390); Liberator, The, (p 493); ‘Lorulot, Andre’, (p 512), ‘Macdonald, George Everett Hussey’, (pp 513-514), ‘Martin, Emma’, (pp 519-520); ‘McCabe, Joseph Martin’, (pp 528-530); ‘McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis’, (pp 532-533); ‘Mendum, Josiah P’, (p 535); ‘Middleton, Conyers’, (pp 536-537); ‘National Liberal League’, (pp 554-555); ‘New Zealand, Unbelief in’, (pp 570-572); ‘O’Hair, Madalyn Murray’, (pp 581-583); ‘Putnam, Samuel Porter’, (pp 624-625); ‘Rationalism’, (pp 628-629); ‘Rationalist Press Association’, (pp 630-631); ‘Ross, William Stewart’, (p 671); Schiller, F C S, (p 686); Symes, Joseph, (pp 744-745); ‘Taylor, Robert’, (pp 745-746); ‘Unbelief as a Way of Life’, (pp 772-775); ‘Watts, Charles Albert’, (pp 810-811), ‘Woolston, Thomas’, (p 833).