Imagine there's no heaven: how atheism helped create the modern world

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: Euro...

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Άλλοι τίτλοι:Imagine there is no heaven
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stephens, Mitchell (Άλλος)
Τύπος μέσου: Εκτύπωση Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Υπηρεσία παραγγελιών Subito: Παραγγείλετε τώρα.
Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: HBZ Gateway
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Έκδοση: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2014
Στο/Στη:Έτος: 2014
Έκδοση:1. ed.
Σημειογραφίες IxTheo:AB Φιλοσοφία της θρησκείας, Κριτική της θρησκείας, Αθεϊσμός
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά:B Atheism History
B Atheism Influence
B Atheism Social aspects History
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Σύνοψη: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
Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1137002603