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Author | : Dale McGowan |
Publisher | : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0814410960 |
Download Raising Freethinkers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Raising Freethinkers offers solutions to the unique challenges secular parents face and provides specific answers to common questions, as well as over 100 activities for both parents and their children. Covers every important topic nonreligious parents need to know to help their children with their own moral and intellectual development.
Author | : James C. Sanford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download Great Freethinkers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Grouped into categories that range from religion and psychology to sex and politics, the 1,000 quotations by the world's great iconoclasts and skeptics collected in this volume challenge conventional notions of god, country, science, art, society, and culture. In eclectic harmony, the words of cynics Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, and H. L. Mencken counterbalance those of idealists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, and Jane Addams. Utopians Emma Goldman and Che Guevara contrast with anti-utopians George Orwell and Albert Camus. Individualists contend with egalitarians as do deists with atheists in these thought-provoking quotations that have been carefully selected from a broad range of writings and chosen on the basis of their wit, eloquence, novelty, and incisiveness.
Author | : Susan Jacoby |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2005-01-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1429934751 |
Download Freethinkers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Sarah Stroumsa |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004113749 |
Download Freethinkers of Medieval Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book studies the phenomenon of freethinking in medieval Islam, as exemplified in the figures of Ibn al-R wand and Ab Bakr al-R z . It reconstructs their thought and analyzes the relations of the phenomenon to Islamic prophetology and its repercussions in Islamic thought.
Author | : Dale Mcgowan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780814437414 |
Download Parenting Beyond Belief Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Gathering the perspectives of educators and psychologists, as well as wisdom from everyday parents, Parenting Beyond Belief offers insights and advice on a wide range of topics including instilling values, finding meaning and purpose, navigating holidays, coping with loss, finding community without religion, and more. The second edition of this secular parenting bestseller brings back reflections from such celebrated freethinkers as Richard Dawkins and Julia Sweeney, and adds new voices including journalist Wendy Thomas Russell, essayist Katherine Ozment, sociologist Phil Zuckerman, and many others" --
Author | : Khushwant Singh |
Publisher | : Rupa Publications |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9788192328041 |
Download The Freethinker's Prayer Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Quotations from various sacred, philosophical, and literary texts and authors.
Author | : Carolin Kosuch |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783110687163 |
Download Freethinkers in Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Michael Hunter |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
ISBN | : 0300243588 |
Download The Decline of Magic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.
Author | : Dan Barker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Atheism |
ISBN | : 9781877733055 |
Download Just Pretend Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Compares concepts of God to concepts of other mythological beings and stories.
Author | : Annie Laurie Gaylor |
Publisher | : Freedom from Religion Foundation |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Women Without Superstition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The collected writings of women freethinkers of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries