Some overviews (Agnosticism (1889) / Thomas Henry Huxley -- An agnostic's apology (1876) / Leslie Stephen -- The philosophy of atheism (Emma Goldman) -- Why I am an unbeliever (1926) / Carl Van Doren) -- The existence of God (A refutation of deism (1814) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- What is religion? (1899) / Robert G. Ingersoll -- Is there a God? (1952) / Bertrand Russell -- The claims of theology (1973) / A.J. Ayer) -- The immortality myth (On the nature of things (ca. 60 B.C.E.) / Lucretius -- Immortality (1868-70) / John Stuart Mill -- Can we survive our own deaths? (1993) / Antony Flew)^^The nature of religious beleif (The natural history of religion (1757) / David Hume -- Evangelical teaching (1855) / George Eliot -- Humanity's gain from unbelief (1889) / Charles Bradlaugh -- Miracle (1895) / Anatole France) -- Religion and science (Autobiography (1876) / Charles Darwin -- The antichrist (1888) / Friedrich Nietzsche -- On the Scopes trial (1925) / H.L. Mencken -- The demon-haunted world (1995) / Carl Sagan) -- Religion and ethics (The system of nature (1770) / Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach -- The age of reason (1796) / Thomas Paine -- A letter on religion (1918) / H.P. Lovecraft -- The faith of a heretic (1961) / Walter Kaufmann)^^Religion and the state (Theologico-political treatise (1670) / Benedict de Spinoza -- The spirit of rationalism in Europe (1865) / W.E.H. Lecky -- God in the constitution (1890) / Robert G. Ingersoll -- The Lord's day alliance (1928) / Clarence Darrow -- Monotheism and its discontents (1992) / Gore Vidal) -- Religion and society (The Christian church and woman (1885) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- The priest and the child (1895?) / J.M. Robertson -- Religion and sex (1919) / Chapman Cohen)
346 p. ;23 cm.
Book Details
Place Published
City
Amherst, N.Y.
Date Published
2000
Publication Subjects
Atheism--History.
Call No.
BL2751 .A88 2000
ISBN
1573928550 (pbk. : alk. paper) :'
LCCN
00058879
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-346).