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Imagine there's no heaven : how atheism helped create the modern world
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Imagine there's no heaven : how atheism helped create the modern world / Mitchell Stephens.
ISBN
9781137002600 (hbk.)
1137002603 (hbk.)
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Imagine there is no heaven
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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