| Description |
346 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346). |
| Contents |
PART 1: Some overviews. Agnosticism (1889) / Thomas Henry Huxley -- An agnostic's apology (1876) / Leslie Stephen -- The philosophy of atheism (1916) / Emma Goldman -- Why I am an unbeliever (1926) / Carl Van Doren -- -- PART 2: The existence of God. A refutation of deism (1814) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- What is religion? (1899) / Robert G. Ingersoll -- Is there a God? (1952) / Bertrand Russell -- The claims of theology (1973) / A. J. Ayer -- -- PART 3: The immortality myth. On the nature of things (ca. 60 B.C.E.) / Lucretius -- Immortality (1868-70) / John Stuart Mill -- Can we survive our own deaths? (1993) / Anthony Flew -- -- PART 4: The nature of religious belief. The natural history of religion (1757) / David Hume -- Evangelical teaching (1855) / George Eliot -- Humanity's gain from unbelief (1889) / Charles Bradlaugh -- Miracle (1895) / Anatole France -- -- PART 5: Religion and science. Autobiography (1876) / Charles Darwin -- The Antichrist (1888) / Friedrich Nietzsche -- On the Scopes Trial (1925) / H. L. Mencken -- The demon-haunted world (1995) / Carl Sagan -- -- PART 6: Religion and ethics. The system of nature (1770) / Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach -- The age of reason (1796) / Thomas Paine -- A letter on religion (1918) / H. P. Lovecraft -- The faith of a heretic (1961) / Walter Kaufmann -- -- PART 7: Religion and the state. Theologico-political treatise (1670) / Benedict de Spinoza -- The spirit of rationalism in Europe (1865) / W. E. H. Lecky -- God in the Constitution (1890) / Robert G. Ingersoll -- The Lord's Day Alliance (1928) / Clarence Darrow -- Monotheism and its discontents (1992) / Gore Vidal -- -- PART 8: Religion and society. The Christian church and woman (1885) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- The priest and the child (1895?) / J. M. Robertson -- Religion and sex (1919) / Chapman Cohen. |
| Subject |
Atheism -- History.
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| Added Author |
Joshi, S. T., 1958-
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| ISBN |
1573928550 alkaline paper |
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9781573928557 alkaline paper |
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