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001 2013035039
003 DLC
005 20140613121217.0
008 131220s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013035039
020 $a9781137002600 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBL2747.3$b.S748 2014
082 00 $a211/.809$223
100 1 $aStephens, Mitchell.
245 10 $aImagine there's no heaven :$bhow atheism helped create the modern world /$cMitchell Stephens.
264 1 $aNew York City :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 328 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: everything must be examined -- How can that be? why disbelief -- The clear truth of what happened: disbelief and learning arrive together in greece -- They forbid rational speculation: disbelief and learning decline together in christian europe -- Nothing but this visible world: Europe's return to reason -- How heaven goes: disbelief and science in the seventeenth century -- Open your eyes: the beginnings of the enlightenment -- Bombs on the house of the lord: the enlightenment argument for atheism -- The beast let loose: revolution in america and france -- This glorious land of freedom: abolition, suffrage and freethinking -- Free rovers on the broad, bright, breezy common of the universe: working class atheism in nineteenth-century britain -- To wipe away the entire horizon: creating the twentieth century -- The passions of the earth: living without gods -- This breach of naiveté: secularism in Europe and America.
650 0 $aAtheism$xHistory.
650 0 $aAtheism$xInfluence.