Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient WorldKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10. nóv. 2015 - 304 síður How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. |
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... religion that is dying. It has no answers to the questions of the modern ... Greek sources. If the terms of the debate seem arrestingly modern, that is ... religion, and the religious wish to see it as a pathological symptom of a decadent ...
... Greek than in all other ancient languages (including Latin) put together. Indeed, I would wager that more words ... religion and culture have almost always been written from the point of view of the believers. The result is a misleading ...
... Greek religion have sought to define it by contrast with the monotheistic religions of the modern West, and particularly Christianity. But this itself has been part of the problem. So keen have classicists been to avoid ¡Christianizing ...
... religion and culture. Formal mechanisms reconciling all of this multiplicity ... Greek cultural solidarity, through the story of a shared expedition to go ... religion too was an expression of these multiple regional identities. Ancient ...
... religious practice and belief as a much more local matter. There were private cults within the household, or in rural ... Greek religion. The Greeks had innumerable gods who could come in many forms: alongside the twelve Olympians (Zeus ...
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Battling the Gods | |
The Material Cosmos | |
Cause and Effect | |
Concerning the Gods I Cannot Know | |
Playing the Gods | |
Plato and the Atheists | |
Gods and Kings | |
Philosophical Atheism | |
Epicurus Theomakhos | |
With Gods on Our Side | |
Virtual Networks | |
Acknowledgments | |
Atheism on Trial | |