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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... deity? Where is the grace? Where is the idea of a spirit that survives after death? To understand Greek religion one needs to cast off such assumptions and see it on its own terms, as an articulation of local identity within the ...
... deity , a water supply , and areas of shared space devoted to different kinds of communal activity ( commercial , religious , political , juridical , rec- reational ) . In the course of the archaic period , the larger polis would come ...
... deity with a profusion of what have been variously interpreted as breasts , eggs , or even bull's testicles ; and who at Patrae was worshipped , as Artemis Laphria , with a huge fire onto which were thrown wild ani- mals of all kinds ...
... deity be of this world ? In the fifth century AD , the Christian Church found itself locked in a battle between " monophysites " ( who believed that Christ's human and divine aspects were fully integrated ) and " dyo- physites " ( who ...
... deities , which were essential to any kind of international diplomacy : you had to be sure that you both agreed on which gods were in charge of which pacts . Greeks too thought that the world's gods were essentially the same , even ...
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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 |