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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Autres titres:Imagine there is no heaven
Collaborateurs: Stephens, Mitchell (Autre)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2014
Dans:Année: 2014
Édition:1. ed.
Classifications IxTheo:AB Philosophie de la religion
Sujets non-standardisés:B Atheism History
B Atheism Influence
B Atheism Social aspects History
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Résumé: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
Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1137002603