Bibliograph

Imagine there's no heaven, how atheism helped create the modern world, Mitchell Stephens

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Imagine there's no heaven, how atheism helped create the modern world, Mitchell Stephens

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Imagine there's no heaven

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

852658386

Responsibility statement

Mitchell Stephens

Sub title

how atheism helped create the modern world

Summary

Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There<U+2019>s No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization. At each juncture common themes emerge: by questioning the role of gods in the heavens or the role of a God in creating man on earth, nonbelievers help move science forward

Table Of Contents

Prologue: Everything must be examined -- How can that be? Why disbelief -- A clear understanding of what happened: disbelief and learning arrive together in Greece -- They forbid rational speculation: disbelief and learning decline together in Christian Europe -- Nothing but this visible world: Europe's return to reason -- How Heaven goes: disbelief and science in the seventeenth century -- Open your eyes: the beginnings of the enlightenment -- Bombs on the House of the Lord: the enlightenment argument for atheism -- The beast let loose: revolution in America and France -- This glorious land of freedom: abolition, suffrage and freethinking -- Free rovers on the broad, bright, breezy common of the universe: working-class atheism in nineteenth-century Britain -- To wipe away the entire horizon: creating the twentieth century -- The passions of this earth: living without gods -- The gods are being driven from the earth: secularism in Europe and America -- This breach of naïveté: religion unguarded -- Epilogue: Above us only sky

Target audience

adult

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Imagine there is no heaven

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