The Secular Chronicle
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 504
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The Decline of the Secular University
Author: C. John Sommerville
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-06-29
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780195306958
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Strange Gods
Author: Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2017-03-21
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1400096391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a groundbreaking historical work that focuses on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an uncompromising secular perspective, Susan Jacoby illuminates the social and economic forces that have shaped individual faith and the voluntary conversion impulse that has changed the course of Western history—for better and for worse. Covering the triumph of Christianity over paganism in late antiquity, the Spanish Inquisition, John Calvin’s dour theocracy, American plantations where African slaves had to accept their masters’ religion—along with individual converts including Augustine of Hippo, John Donne, Edith Stein, Muhammad Ali, George W. Bush and Mike Pence—Strange Gods makes a powerful case that nothing has been more important in struggle for reason than the right to believe in the God of one’s choice or to reject belief in God altogether.
The Chronicle of Seert
Author: Philip Wood
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Published: 2013-08-29
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0199670676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the cultural and political history of the Church of the East, the main Christian church in Iraq and Iran. Philip Wood uses medieval Arabic sources to examine history-writing by Christians in the fifth to ninth centuries AD.
A Book Forged in Hell
Author: Steven Nadler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-10-09
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 069113989X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published. Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Steven Nadler tells the story of this book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired. A vivid story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash, A Book Forged in Hell will interest anyone who is curious about the origin of some of our most cherished modern beliefs--Jacket p. [2].
Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life
Author: Isaac Kramnick
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-08-21
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0393254976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Illuminating.” —Phil Zuckerman, author of Living the Secular Life If the First Amendment protects the separation of church and state, why have atheists had to fight for their rights? In this valuable work, R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick reveal the fascinating history of atheism in America and the legal challenges to federal and state laws that made atheists second-class citizens.
The Godless Constitution
Author: Isaac Kramnick
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780393315240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical roots of American religious freedom, paying particular attention to such figures as John Locke, Roger Williams, and especially Thomas Jefferson, and examine the controversies, up to the present day, over the proper place of religion in our political life. With a new chapter that explores the role of religion in the public life of George W. Bush's America, The Godless Constitution offers a bracing return to the first principles of American governance.
The Secularist, a Liberal Weekly Review
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 212
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Author: Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781852853587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe priorities of medieval chroniclers and historians were not those of the modern historian, nor was the way that they gathered, arranged and presented evidence. Yet if we understand how they approached their task, and their assumption of God's immanence in the world, much that they wrote becomes clear. Many of them were men of high intelligence whose interpretation of events sheds clear light on what happened. Christopher Given-Wilson is one of the leading authorities on medieval English historical writing. He examines how medieval writers such as Ranulf Higden and Adam Usk treated chronology and geography, politics and warfare, heroes and villains. He looks at the ways in which chronicles were used during the middle ages, and at how the writing of history changed between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
