Arab debates about the critical relationship between religion and modernity began in the early nineteenth century. Such debates are now integral to the struggle for power between a variety of political groups and their opponents, and are vital to understanding the modern Middle …
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"Leigh Eric Schmidt rebuilds the history of American secularism from the ground up, giving flesh and blood to these outspoken infidels, including itinerant lecturer Samuel Porter Putnam; rough-edged cartoonist Watson Heston; convicted blasphemer Charles B. Reynolds; and atheist …
"The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key feature in the development of the modern world, yet it is a topic which has been little explored by historians. This book presents a series of studies of irreligious ideas in various parts of Europe during the two centuries following th…
While I most definitely did not agree with all of the contributions in the volume, and while I am generally more supportive of the new atheists than I am of their detractors, I found this volume over-all to be a compelling, engrossing, and provocative contribution."--Phil Zucker…
The Oxford handbook of atheism
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Rethinking secularism
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Scepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
by Popkin, Richard H., (Richard Henry), Vanderjagt, Arie Johan, Conference on Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and the Humanities)
fromBrill's studies in intellectual history
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"This volume deals with scepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The various contributions seek to clarify and to understand the challenges made then to both the framework of thinking about God and religion and the intellectual systems that had supp…