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Icons of Unbelief Atheists, Agnostics, and Secularists
S. T. Joshi
Book Code: GR4759
ISBN: 0-313-34759-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34759-7
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/2008
List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 10/30/2008)
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 7 x 10
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Series Title: Greenwood Icons
Description: In the opinion of many critics and philosophers, we are entering an age of atheism marked by the waning of Christian fundamentalism and the flourishing of secular thought. Never before has atheism and agnosticism been so prevalent in American society, as testified by the simultaneous appearance of 2 atheist volumes on the bestseller lists: Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion and Sam Harris's Letter to a Christian Nation. This volume profiles some of the key figures and groups who have advanced religious unbelief over the past 200 years. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 27 iconic figures of unbelief, such as:

  • Charles Bradlaugh
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Daniel C. Dennett
  • Albert Einstein
  • The Existentialists
  • The Founding Fathers
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Sam Harris
  • Robert G. Ingersoll
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Mark Twain
  • Voltaire
  • And more.

    Each entry discusses the ideas and lasting significance of the person or group, provides sidebars of interesting information and quotations, and closes with a list of works for further reading. The volume ends with a selected, general bibliography. Students in history and social studies classes will welcome this reference as a guide to the American separation of Church and State and to the ideas central to contemporary political debates.
    • Table of Contents:
    • Preface
    • Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jenin Younes
    • Charles Bradlaugh, David Tribe
    • Richard Dawkins, Donald R. Burleson
    • Daniel C. Dennett, Richard Gillilan
    • John Dewey, John Shook
    • Albert Einstein, Mauro Murzi
    • The Existentialists, Max Deutscher
    • The Founding Fathers, Edd Doerr
    • Sigmund Freud, Kirk Bingaman
    • Sam Harris, Jenin Younes
    • Thomas Henry Huxley, Sherrie Lyons
    • Robert G. Ingersoll, Tom Flynn
    • Paul Kurtz, Bill Cooke
    • Corliss Lamont, Bill Cooke
    • H. P. Lovecraft, Robert M. Price
    • H. L. Mencken, S. T. Joshi
    • John Stuart Mill, S. T. Joshi
    • Kai Nielsen, Bla Szabados and Andrew Lugg
    • Friedrich Nietzsche, Weaver Santaniello
    • Madalyn Murray OHair, Frank R. Zindler
    • The Philosophes, Wilda Anderson
    • Bertrand Russell, Keith M. Parsons
    • Carl Sagan, John Shook
    • Leslie Stephen, S. T. Joshi
    • Mark Twain, Richard Bleiler
    • Gore Vidal, S. T. Joshi
    • Voltaire, Jean-Claude Pecker
    • General Bibliography
    • About the Contributors
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