Voices of Unbelief: Documents from Atheists and Agnostics

Author Dale McGowan

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Author

Dale McGowan

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9781598849790

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Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Voices of Unbelief: Documents from Atheists and Agnostics is the first anthology to provide comprehensive, annotated readings on atheism and unbelief expressly for high school and college students. This diverse compilation brings together letters, essays, diary entries, book excerpts, blogs, monologues, and other writings by atheists and agnostics, both through the centuries and across continents and cultures.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Selective Chronology of the History of Religious Unbelief.
1: Unbelief in the Ancient World.
2: Atheism in Ancient Judea—Psalm 14:1.
3: Unbelief in Ancient China—Xun Zi (Third Century BCE).
4: Unbelief in Ancient India—The Bārhaspatya-Sūtras (Third Century BCE).
5: Atheism and Agnosticism in Ancient Greece and Rome (Second Century BCE–Second Century CE).
6: The “Middle Ages” in Four Cultures.
7: Unbelief in Medieval India—Mahapurana of Jinasena (Ninth Century CE).
8: The Unbeliever in Islam—Ibn al-Rawāndī (Persia, ca. 815–ca. 860).
9: A Continuing Thread of Doubt in China—Chang Tsai (1020–1077).
10: Inquisition Interrogations from the Fournier Register (France, 1318–1325).
11: Age of Enlightenment.
12: A Clandestine Manuscript—Toland's (?) Treatise of the Three Impostors (ca. 1680s).
13: “War Song of an Atheist Priest”—The Testament of Jean Meslier (1729).
14: Atheism in Prerevolutionary France—Baron d'Holbach's Good Sense (1772).
15: The 19th Century.
16: “Thro' Deficiency of Proof”—Shelley's The Necessity of Atheism (1811).
17: “What Does She Believe?”—Frances Wright's Lectures (1828–1829).
18: “Sit Down before Fact as a Little Child”—T. H. Huxley's Letter to Rev. Kingsley (1860).
19: “A Defence of Atheism” on the Eve of War—Ernestine Rose (1861).
20: “The Great Agnostic”—Robert Green Ingersoll (1896).
21: Feminism and Freethought—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1885).
22: Erasing Unbelief—Charles Darwin's Autobiography (1887, 1958).
23: An Atheist in Parliament—Charles Bradlaugh's “Humanity's Gain from Unbelief” (188
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