A History of Freethought in the Nineteenth Century
Author: John Mackinnon Robertson
Publisher: London : Dawsons of Pall Mall
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Mackinnon Robertson
Publisher: London : Dawsons of Pall Mall
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. M. Robertson
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781494103521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Author: J. M. Robertson
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781494095963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Author: Christopher Cameron
Publisher: Critical Insurgencies
Published: 2019-09-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780810140790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Black Freethinkers is the first study to offer a comprehensive historical treatment of African American freethought (including atheism, agnosticism, and secular humanism) from the nineteenth century to the present.
Author: Janet Elizabeth Courtney
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Todd H. Weir
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-21
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1107041562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the culture, politics, and ideas of the nineteenth-century German secularist movements of Free Religion, Freethought, Ethical Culture, and Monism. In it, Todd H. Weir argues that although secularists challenged church establishment and conservative orthodoxy, they were subjected to the forces of religious competition.
Author: Janet E. Courtney
Publisher:
Published: 2016-06-27
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781332785315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Freethinkers of the Nineteenth Century The vision had passed; but the awakening remained, and the question recurred. Who were the spiritual teachers and masters from whom the generation, now grown to maturity, had learned its love of freedom '2 Might it not be worth while for men and women of middle age to set down some record of the liberators they had listened to in youth, before a new world arose, tempted to forget its debt to the Old? Any selection must necessarily seem arbitrary. It can but be coloured by individual experience. But there are at least certain broad aspects of freedom which must be represented. Free thought means one thing to the theologian, another to the poet and critic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Shirley A. Mullen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 135162847X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title, first published in 1987, explores the phenomenon of militant freethought among England’s working classes from 1840-1870. In particular, it is an effort to explain the peculiarly theological and evangelistic overtones of much Victorian working class radicalism, and the resulting emergence of a Victorian religion of atheism. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century religious and social history.
Author: Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2005-01-07
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 1429934751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times) At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby paints a striking portrait of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth century's civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who, allied with liberal and tolerant religious believers, have stood at the forefront of the battle for reforms opposed by reactionary forces in the past and today. Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Clarence Darrow—as well as once-famous secularists such as Robert Green Ingersoll, "the Great Agnostic"—Freethinkers restores to history generations of dedicated humanists. It is they, Jacoby shows, who have led the struggle to uphold the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system.
Author: Nathan G. Alexander
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1526142392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is modern racism a product of secularisation and the decline of Christian universalism? The debate has raged for decades, but up to now, the actual racial views of historical atheists and freethinkers have never been subjected to a systematic analysis. Race in a Godless World sets out to correct the oversight. It centres on Britain and the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century, a time when popular atheist movements were emerging and scepticism about the truth of Christianity was becoming widespread. Covering racial and evolutionary science, imperialism, slavery and racial prejudice in theory and practice, it provides a much-needed account of the complex and sometimes contradictory ideas espoused by the transatlantic community of atheists and freethinkers. It also reflects on the social dimension of irreligiousness, exploring how working-class atheists’ experiences of exclusion could make them sympathetic to other marginalised groups.