Icons of Unbelief
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Icons of Unbelief

Atheists, Agnostics, and Secularists

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Icons of Unbelief

Atheists, Agnostics, and Secularists

About this book

Discusses the ideas and impact of 27 atheists, agnostics, and secularists whose ideas have shaped society over the last 200 years. In the opinion of many critics and philosophers, we are entering an age of atheism marked by the waning of Christian fundamentalism and the flourishing of secular thought. Through alphabetically arranged entries written by expert contributors, this book profiles 27 iconic figures of unbelief whose ideas have shaped American society over the last 200 years. Included are entries on influential figures of the past, such as Albert Einstein and Voltaire, as well as on such contemporary figures as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. Each entry discusses the ideas and lasting significance of each person or group, provides sidebars of interesting information and illuminating quotations, and cites works for further reading. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students in social studies and history classes will welcome this reference as a guide to the ideas central to the American separation of Church and State and to many of the political debates at the heart of society today. Each entry discusses the ideas and lasting significance of the person or group, provides sidebars of interesting information and quotations, and closes with a list of works for further reading. The volume ends with a selected, general bibliography. Students in history and social studies classes will welcome this reference as a guide to the American separation of Church and State and to the ideas central to contemporary political debates.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9780313347597
eBook ISBN
9780313347603
Edition
1
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Series Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  5. Charles Bradlaugh
  6. Richard Dawkins
  7. Daniel C. Dennett
  8. John Dewey
  9. Albert Einstein
  10. The Existentialists
  11. The Founding Fathers
  12. Sigmund Freud
  13. Sam Harris
  14. Thomas Henry Huxley
  15. Robert G. Ingersoll
  16. Paul Kurtz
  17. Corliss Lamont
  18. H. P. Lovecraft
  19. H. L. Mencken
  20. John Stuart Mill
  21. Kai Nielsen
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche
  23. Madalyn Murray O’Hair
  24. The Philosophes
  25. Bertrand Russell
  26. Carl Sagan
  27. Leslie Stephen
  28. Mark Twain
  29. Gore Vidal
  30. Voltaire
  31. General Bibliography
  32. About the Contributors
  33. Index