Pitchstone Publishing

Pitchstone Publishing is a publishing company based in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Kurt Volkan in 2003,[1] Pitchstone Publishing has published numerous books by leading academics and scholars, particularly in the fields of secular humanism, new atheism, applied psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.

Notable books

  • Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All – and What We Can Do About It (2012) by Sean Faircloth
  • Blind Trust: Leaders and Their Followers in Times of Crisis and Terror (2018) by Vamık Volkan[2]
  • Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Religion Behind (2017) by Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola[3]
  • God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States (2013) by Karen Stollznow[4]
  • Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (2020) by Sikivu Hutchinson[5]
  • Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts (2014) by Vamik Volkan[6]
  • A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013) by Peter Boghossian
  • PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion and the Holy Book (2003) by Armando Favazza[7][8]
  • Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith (2011) by J. Anderson Thomson, Jr.

Notes

  1. ^ Ruark, Jennifer K. "Scholars Mix Psychology and Public Affairs to Analyze Political Figures Like Saddam Hussein", The Chronicle of Higher Education. February 28, 2003, accessed February 18, 2011.
  2. ^ Kiem, Elizabeth. "Putting the War on Terror on the Couch: Vamik Volkan's Blind Trust", Virginia Quarterly Review. Fall 2004, accessed February 18, 2011.
  3. ^ "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind - TheHumanist.com". TheHumanist.com. 2014-04-22. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  4. ^ "God Bless America". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  5. ^ News; Voices; Commentary; Features; Magazine, The; Entertainment, Arts &; Multimedia; Us, About; Us, Contact. "Sikivu Hutchinson". TheHumanist.com. Retrieved 2022-07-04. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ Maurer, David A. "Putting Enemies on the Couch: Vamik Volkan's Unofficial Diplomacy", The University of Virginia Magazine. Spring 2007, accessed February 18, 2011.
  7. ^ Weinberg, Steve. "Psychiatrist Puts Bible on the Couch", St. Louis Post-Dispatch. January 28, 2004, accessed February 18, 2011.
  8. ^ Smith, Dale. "By the Book? A Psychiatrist Puts the Bible of the Couch", Illumination. Spring 2004, accessed February 18, 2011.