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, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basi ...

new atheism New Atheism is a perspective shared by some atheist academics, writers, scientists, and philosophers of the 20th and 21st centuries, intolerant of superstition, religion, and irrationalism. New Atheists advocate the antitheist view that the v ...

, 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, attorney and politician from Maine. A Democrat, Faircloth is currently a member of the Maine House of Representatives from the 24th district following a 2025 special election. Previous ...

* ''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 born American psychiatrist, internationally known for his 40 years work bringing together conflictual groups for dialogue and mutual understanding. Amon ...

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

Daniel Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of biology, particularly as those ...

and Linda LaScola * ''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 author, linguist, public speaker, and podcaster. Her books include ''Bitch: The Journey of a Word'', ''Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility'', ''On the Offensive: ...

* ''Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical'' (2020) by Sikivu Hutchinson * ''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 college professor. He was an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University for ten years, and his areas of academic focus include atheism, critical t ...

* ''PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion and the Holy Book'' (2003) by Armando FavazzaSmith, Dale
"By the Book? A Psychiatrist Puts the Bible of the Couch"
''Illumination''. Spring 2004, accessed February 18, 2011. * ''Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith'' (2011) by J. Anderson Thomson, Jr.

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