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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... atheists can be seen as a less serious problem than the persecution of religious minorities. The deep history of atheism is then in part a human rights issue: it is about recognizing atheists as real people deserving of respect ...
Atheism in the Ancient World Tim Whitmarsh. In the Western world, it is only for ancient Greece, and later Greekinfluenced Rome, that the scattered tesserae can be pieced together into a coherent mosaic. (Ancient China also had its atheists ...
... atheist. Atheism was the categorical rejection of the very premise on which Christians defined themselves. This book thus represents a kind of archaeology of religious skepticism. It is in part an attempt to excavate ancient atheism ...
Atheism in the Ancient World Tim Whitmarsh. without the instruments of modern nationhood. Imposing a single, central ... atheism in antiquity suggests that Assmann was right. Certainly, atheism was not always approved of in Greek ...
Atheism in the Ancient World Tim Whitmarsh. religious orthodoxy. Priests were there to manage ritual and temple finance, not to tell people what to believe, and in any case there was no orthodoxy, no revealed truth, no sacred word. There ...
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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 | |