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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... skepticism toward traditional religion, in the writings of Xenophanes of Colophon (ca. 570w 475 BC). But the exact dates do not greatly affect my point, which is rather a rhetorical one: that atheism has a tradition that is comparable ...
... skepticism toward the supernatural as the result of sci- ence's progressive eclipse of religion , and the religious wish to see it as a pathological symptom of a decadent Western world consumed by capi- talism . Both are guilty of ...
... skeptics in non - Western cultures . Sir Edward Evans - Pritchard , researching among the Azande of the Congo in the early twentieth century , spoke to one man who thought the witch doctors to be frauds ; after probing a little further ...
... skepticism toward traditional reli- gion , in the writings of Xenophanes of Colophon ( ca. 570-475 BC ) . But the exact dates do not greatly affect my point , which is rather a rhetori- cal one : that atheism has a tradition that is ...
... skeptics . History is , so we are often told , written by the winners . Much of the labor of social history , from the mid - twentieth century onward , has been directed toward recovering the voices of those who do not loom large in the ...
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Battling the Gods | 40 |
The Material Cosmos | 52 |
Cause and Effect | 75 |
Concerning the Gods I Cannot Know | 87 |
Playing the Gods | 97 |
Atheism on Trial | 115 |
PART THREE | 139 |
Gods and Kings | 145 |
Philosophical Atheism | 156 |
Epicurus Theomakhos | 173 |
With Gods on Our Side | 193 |
Virtual Networks | 205 |
Imagine | 215 |
Christians Heretics and Other Atheists | 231 |