Atheism For Dummies.
The easy way to understand atheism and secular philosophy For people seeking a non-religious philosophy of life, as well as believers with atheist friends, Atheism For Dummies offers an intelligent exploration of the historical and moral case for atheism. Often wildly misunderstood, atheism is a sec...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via ProQuest) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Wiley,
2013.
|
| Subjects: |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000Mu 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | b10188686 | ||
| 003 | CoU | ||
| 005 | 20190503025457.4 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr ||||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 130316s2013 nyu o 000 0 eng d | ||
| 019 | |a 864467440 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781118509227 | ||
| 020 | |a 1118509226 | ||
| 028 | 0 | 1 | |a EB00057848 |b Recorded Books |
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)ebq830168877dda | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)830168877 |z (OCoLC)864467440 | ||
| 037 | |a ebq1132853dda | ||
| 040 | |a EBLCP |b eng |e pn |c EBLCP |d OCLCQ |d TOH |d OCLCO |d UKDOC |d RECBK |d OCLCQ |d OCLCF |d OCLCQ |d YDXCP |d OCLCQ |d MERUC |d NLC |d OCLCQ | ||
| 049 | |a GWRE | ||
| 050 | 4 | |a BL2747.3 | |
| 100 | 1 | |a McGowan, Dale. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Atheism For Dummies. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Wiley, |c 2013. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (387 pages) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent. | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia. | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Atheism For Dummies®; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You're Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Understanding What Atheism Is; Chapter 1: Meeting Atheism; Getting a Grip on Atheism; Seeing the Progression of Atheism; Examining Atheism in the Written Word; Understanding What Atheism Means in Everyday Life; Chapter 2: Unweaving the Rainbow of Disbelief; Tomato, Tomahto? The Wonderful, Maddening World of Atheist Labels. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Believing and Disbelieving by DegreesEmphasizing Doubt: Agnostics Aren't Sure (and Neither Are You); Discovering Humanism: The Thousand Steps That Follow; Forcing a Square Peg into a Round Hole: The Unpigeonholeables; Chapter 3: Recognizing What Atheists Do and Don't Believe -- and Why; Understanding Why Atheists Don't Believe in God; Knowing What Most Atheists Actually Do Believe; Setting Aside Misconceptions: Things That Few (If Any) Atheists Believe; Answering the Question: Is Science Incompatible with Belief in God?; Part II: Following Atheism through the Ages. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 4: Finding Atheism in the Ancient WorldUncovering What the Ancients Believed (Or Didn't); Leaping Forward: The Axial Age; Inferring Unbelief in Ancient Judea; Finding Unbelief in Ancient China; Chapter 5: Going Medieval; Continuing to Doubt in Medieval India; Sweeping Out the Superstitions in China; Trash-Talking in Medieval Islam; Freezing Out the Gods in Iceland; Giving Europe the Third Degree: The Inquisitions; Chapter 6: Enlightening Strikes; Transmitting the Classics; Getting a (Bad) Name: Athée; Discovering a Whole New Way to Think: The Scientific Revolution. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Stirring the Pot: The Clandestine ManuscriptsSinging the War Song of an Atheist Priest; Thinking Dangerous Thoughts: The Enlightenment Philosophers; Challenging the Powers That Be: The French Revolution; Checking In on the US Founding Fathers; Chapter 7: Opening a Golden Age of Freethought; Killing God: Atheist Philosophers Do the Crime, a Pantheist Writes the Eulogy; Freethinking with Early Feminists; Bracing for the Collision of Religion and Science; Challenging the Religious Monopoly in Politics; Creating a Religion without God: Felix Adler's Ethical Culture. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 8: Growing Up in the Tumultuous 20th CenturyClashing at the National Levels: Atheism and Religion; Birthing Modern Humanism; Disagreeing with Gandhi; Meeting the "Most Hated"; Courting the Separation of Church and State; Doing Religion with an Optional God: Unitarian Universalism; Burying God, Keeping Jesus: The Death of God Theologians; Skipping Yahweh: Humanistic Judaism; Reconciling Science and Religion (Or Not) Again: Gould's NOMA; Chapter 9: Voicing a New Atheism, and a New Humanism, for the 21st Century; Tracing the Birth of the 21st-Century Atheist Movement. | |
| 500 | |a Feeling "Deep Grief and Fierce Anger": The Four Horsemen. | ||
| 520 | |a The easy way to understand atheism and secular philosophy For people seeking a non-religious philosophy of life, as well as believers with atheist friends, Atheism For Dummies offers an intelligent exploration of the historical and moral case for atheism. Often wildly misunderstood, atheism is a secular approach to life based on the understanding that reality is an arrangement of physical matter, with no consideration of unverifiable spiritual forces. Atheism For Dummies offers a brief history of atheist philosophy and its evolution, explores it as a historical and. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Atheism. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Atheism. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00819974. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a McGowan, Dale. |t Atheism For Dummies. |d New York : Wiley, ©2013 |z 9781118509203. |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucb/detail.action?docID=1132853 |z Full Text (via ProQuest) |
| 907 | |a .b10188686x |b 11-29-21 |c 09-26-18 | ||
| 998 | |a web |b - - |c f |d b |e - |f eng |g nyu |h 0 |i 1 | ||
| 915 | |a M | ||
| 956 | |a Ebook Central DDA | ||
| 956 | |b Ebook Central DDA Titles | ||
| 999 | f | f | |i 8da23c8c-9f16-5ced-bfe5-39864f94e5fa |s fa56359c-0920-5d1e-852e-2b6289cf47e7 |
| 952 | f | f | |p Can circulate |a University of Colorado Boulder |b Online |c Online |d Online |e BL2747.3 |h Library of Congress classification |i web |n 1 |