| Author |
Stephens, Mitchell.
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| Publication |
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 328 pages ; 25 cm |
| Call # |
211.809 S |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Everything must be examined -- How can that be? Why disbelief -- A clear understanding of what happened: disbelief and learning arrive together in Greece -- They forbid rational speculation: disbelief and learning decline together in Christian Europe -- Nothing but this visible world: Europe's return to reason -- How Heaven goes: disbelief and science in the seventeenth century -- Open your eyes: the beginnings of the enlightenment -- Bombs on the House of the Lord: the enlightenment argument for atheism -- The beast let loose: revolution in America and France -- This glorious land of freedom: abolition, suffrage and freethinking -- Free rovers on the broad, bright, breezy common of the universe: working-class atheism in nineteenth-century Britain -- To wipe away the entire horizon: creating the twentieth century -- The passions of this earth: living without gods -- The gods are being driven from the earth: secularism in Europe and America -- This breach of naïveté: religion unguarded -- Epilogue: Above us only sky. |
| Subject |
Atheism -- History.
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Atheism -- Influence.
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Atheism -- Social aspects -- History.
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| Alt Title |
Imagine there is no heaven |
| ISBN |
9781137002600 (hbk.) : |
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1137002603 (hbk.) |
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