The Cambridge History of Atheism

Michael Ruse, Stephen Bullivant

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781009040358
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: History of Religion

The two-volume Cambridge History of Atheism offers an authoritative and up to date account of a subject of contemporary interest. Comprised of sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this History is comprehensive in scope. The essays are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and classics. Offering a global overview of the subject, from antiquity to the present, the volumes examine the phenomenon of unbelief in the context of Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, and Jewish societies. They explore atheism and the early modern Scientific Revolution, as well as the development of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and its continuing implications. The History also includes general survey essays on the impact of scepticism, agnosticism and atheism, as well as contemporary assessments of thinking. Providing essential information on the nature and history of atheism, The Cambridge History of Atheism will be indispensable for both scholarship and teaching, at all levels.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors to Volume I and II
• Introduction
• Part I Preliminaries
• Part II Atheisms in History
• Part III Reformation, Renaissance, Enlightenment
• Part IV Classical Modernity: Philosophical and Scientific Currents
• Part V Classical Modernity: Social and Political Currents
• Part VI Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Intellectual and Artistic Currents
• Part VII Lived Atheism in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries: Case-Studies
• Part VIII Emerging Atheisms in the Twenty-First Century
• Part IX Conclusion
• Index