Voices of unbelief : documents from atheists and agnostics / / Dale McGowan, editor

• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : ABC-CLIO, , c2012; New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 278 pages)
• Disciplina: 211/.8
• Soggetto topico: Agnosticism - History; Atheism - History; Faith
• Altri autori: McGowanDale
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Selective Chronology of the History of Religious Unbelief; DOCUMENTS; Unbelief in the Ancient World; 1. Atheism in Ancient Judea-Psalm 14:1; 2. Unbelief in Ancient China-Xun Zi (Third Century BCE); 3. Unbelief in Ancient India-the Bārhaspatya-sūtras (Third Century BCE); 4. Atheism and Agnosticism in Ancient Greece and Rome (Second Century BCE-Second Century CE); The "Middle Ages" in Four Cultures; 5. Unbelief in Medieval India-Mahapurana of Jinasena (Ninth Century CE); 6. The Unbeliever in Islam-Ibn al-Rawāndī (Persia, ca. 815-ca. 860) ; 7. A Continuing Thread of Doubt in China-Chang Tsai (1020-1077)8. Inquisition Interrogations from the Fournier Register (France, 1318-1325); Age of Enlightenment; 9. A Clandestine Manuscript-Toland's (?) Treatise of the Three Impostors (ca. 1680s); 10. "War Song of an Atheist Priest"-The Testament of Jean Meslier (1729); 11. Atheism in Prerevolutionary France-Baron d'Holbach's Good Sense (1772); The 19th Century; 12. "Thro' Deficiency of Proof"-Shelley's The Necessity of Atheism (1811); 13. "What Does She Believe?"-Frances Wright's Lectures (1828-1829) ; 14. "Sit Down before Fact as a Little Child"-T. H. Huxley's Letter to Rev. Kingsley (1860)15. "A Defence of Atheism" on the Eve of War-Ernestine Rose (1861) ; 16. "The Great Agnostic"-Robert Green Ingersoll (1896) ; 17. Feminism and Freethought-Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1885) ; 18. Erasing Unbelief-Charles Darwin's Autobiography (1887, 1958) ; 19. An Atheist in Parliament-Charles Bradlaugh's "Humanity's Gain from Unbelief" (1889); The 20th Century; 20. Unbelief in the Heartland-Letters to the Blue Grass Blade (1903) ; 21. The "Most Hated Woman in America"-Emma Goldman and "The Philosophy of Atheism" (1916)22. A New Meaning for "God"-John Dewey's A Common Faith (1934); 23. An Atheist in the Halls of Power-Jawaharlal Nehru (1936); 24. "Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?"-Bertrand Russell (1947); 25. "The Unholy Mrs. Knight"-Margaret Knight's "Morals without Religion" (1955); 26. "You May Call Me an Agnostic"-Interviews and Correspondence of Albert Einstein on Religion (1930-1950s); 27. "An Atheist with Gandhi"-Gora (1951); 28. An Atheist in Auschwitz-Primo Levi (1959) ; 29. Religion without God-Sherwin Wine's Humanistic Judaism (1978)30. "The God Hypothesis"-Carl Sagan (1985); 31. A Minister's Farewell to Faith-Dan Barker (1984); 32. Imagining a Humanist Civilization-Corliss Lamont (1992); 33. Religion and Race in the American South-Alice Walker (1997); The Humorists; 34. Twain Laughing, Twain Raging-Thoughts of God (1972) and the Autobiography (2010); 35. Douglas Adams on the Origin of Religion (1998); 36. "Putting on the No-God Glasses"-Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God (2004) ; 37. Satire Responds to Pain and Outrage-Brian Keith Dalton's "Mr. Deity and the Planes" (2009)
• Sommario/riassunto: This book spotlights individual expressions of atheist, agnostic, and secular humanist opinion-both public and private-to shed light on the phenomenon of religious disbelief throughout history and across cultures.
• Titolo autorizzato: Voices of unbelief
• ISBN: 979-82-16-03304-2; 979-82-16-16269-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826392303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Voices of an Era