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...
Άλλοι τίτλοι: | Imagine there is no heaven |
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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | |
Τύπος μέσου: | Εκτύπωση Βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
Υπηρεσία παραγγελιών Subito: | Παραγγείλετε τώρα. |
Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2014
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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 |
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 |
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Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 1137002603 |