Imagine There's No Heaven
How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World
(Sprache: Englisch)
From ancient Greece to modern Europe, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping human history. Exploring the lives of famous atheists as well as forgotten men and women who paved the way for the New Atheist movement, Mitchell...
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From ancient Greece to modern Europe, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping human history. Exploring the lives of famous atheists as well as forgotten men and women who paved the way for the New Atheist movement, Mitchell Stephens shows how disbelief has been one of the central drivers of the modern world.
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The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization. At each juncture common themes emerge: by questioning the role of gods in the heavens or the role of a God in creating man on earth, nonbelievers help move science forward. By challenging the divine right of monarchs and the strictures of holy books, nonbelievers, including Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, help expand human liberties, and influence the early founding of the United States. Revolutions in science, in politics, in philosophy, in art, and in psychology have been led, on multiple occasions, by those who are free of the constraints of religious life. Mitchell Stephens tells the often-courageous tales of history's most important atheists - like Denis Diderot and Salman Rushdie. Stephens makes a strong and original case for their importance not only to today's New Atheist movement but to the way many of us - believers and nonbelievers - now think and live.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Imagine There's No Heaven “
Prologue: Everything Must be ExaminedChapter 1 How Can That Be? Why Disbelief
Chapter 2 The Clear Truth of What Happened: Disbelief and Learning Arrive Together in Greece
Chapter 3 They Forbid Rational Speculation: Disbelief and Learning Decline Together in Christian Europe
Chapter 4 Nothing But This Visible World: Europe's Return to Reason
Chapter 5 How Heaven Goes: Disbelief and Science in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 6 Open Your Eyes: The Beginnings of the Enlightenment
Chapter 7 Bombs On the House of the Lord: The Enlightenment Argument for Atheism
Chapter 8 The Beast Let Loose: Revolution in America and France
Chapter 9 This Glorious Land of Freedom: Abolition, Suffrage and Freethinking
Chapter 10 Free Rovers on the Broad, Bright, Breezy Common of the Universe: Working Class Atheism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Chapter 11 To Wipe Away the Entire Horizon: Creating the Twentieth Century
Chapter 12 The Passions of the Earth: Living Without Gods
Chapter 13 This Breach of Naiveté: Secularism in Europe and America
Epilogue: Above Us Only Sky
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mitchell Stephens
- 2014, 320 Seiten, Maße: 2,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Education
- ISBN-10: 1137002603
- ISBN-13: 9781137002600
Sprache:
Englisch
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