Pitchstone Publishing is a publishing company based in

Durham, North Carolina Durham ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina, Durham County. Small portions of the city limits extend into Orange County, North Carolina, Orange County and Wake County, North Carol ...

. Founded by Kurt Volkan in 2003, Pitchstone Publishing has published numerous books by leading academics and scholars, particularly in the fields of

secular humanism Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system or life stance that embraces human reason, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality an ...

new atheism The term ''New Atheism'' was coined by the journalist Gary Wolf in 2006 to describe the positions promoted by some atheists of the twenty-first century. New Atheism advocates the view that superstition, religion and irrationalism should not si ...

, 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 Sean Faircloth (born May 23, 1960) is an American writer and politician from Maine, he served as the State Senator for Bangor, Maine, as Mayor until November 2016 and as of 2017 he is serving as a Bangor City Councilor. He is also an attorney ...

* ''Blind Trust: Leaders and Their Followers in Times of Crisis and Terror'' (2018) by

Vamık Volkan Vamık D. Volkan, M.D., DFLAPA, FACPsa, (born 1932 in Lefkoşa, Cyprus) is a Turkish Cypriot psychiatrist, internationally known for his 40 years work bringing together conflictual groups for dialogue and mutual understanding. Among his many o ...

* ''Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Religion Behind'' (2017) by

Daniel Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relat ...

and Linda LaScola * ''The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion—and Others Should Too'' (2013) by Candace R. M. Gorham * ''God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States'' (2013) by

Karen Stollznow Karen Stollznow (born 12 August 1976) is an Australian-American writer, linguist, and skeptic. Her books include ''The Language of Discrimination'', ''God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United State ...

* ''Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical'' (2020) by

Sikivu Hutchinson Sikivu Hutchinson is an American author, playwright and director. Her multi-genre work explores feminism, gender justice, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ rights, humanism and atheism. She is the author of ''Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, ...

* ''Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts'' (2014) by Vamik Volkan * ''A Manual for Creating Atheists'' (2013) by

Peter Boghossian Peter Gregory Boghossian (; born July 25, 1966) is an American philosopher and pedagogist. Born in Boston, he was a non-tenure track assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University for ten years, and his areas of academic focus i ...

* ''PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion and the Holy Book'' (2003) by Armando Favazza * ''The Rise and Fall of Faith: A God-to-Godless Story for Christians and Atheists'' (2017) by Drew Bekius * ''Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith'' (2011) by J. Anderson Thomson, Jr.

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