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Atheists and atheism before the Enlightenment : the English and Scottish experience / Michael Hunter.

Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period, yet fully documented examples of openly expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. England and Scotland saw only a handful of such cases before 1750, and this book offers a detailed analysis of three of them. Thomas...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Hunter, Michael, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Atheism > England > History.
Atheism > Scotland > History.
Atheists > England.
Atheists > Scotland.
Great Britain > History > 1066-1687.
Great Britain > Religion.
Atheism.
Atheists.
Religion.
England.
Great Britain.
Scotland.
1066-1687
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The problem of "atheism" in early modern England
  • Atheism among the godly : the covert history of religious doubt
  • 'This degenerate age... so miserably over-run with skepticism and infidelity' : the culture of atheism after 1660
  • 'Aikenhead the atheist' : the context and consequences of articulate irreligion in the late seventeenth century
  • An atheist text by Archibald Pitacirne : introduction to Pitcairneana
  • The text of Pitcairneana : Houghton Library, Harvard, MS Eng 1114
  • The trial of Tinkler Ducket : atheism and libertinism in eighteenth-century England.

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