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Atheism

A Reader
  • ISBN-13: 9781573928557
  • Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • Edited by S. T. Joshi
  • Price: AUD $46.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/01/2001
  • Format: Paperback 346 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Agnosticism & atheism [HRQA5]
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This unique anthology assembles the best writings on atheism, agnosticism, and scepticism by some of the world's great thinkers past and present. Arranged to address the most significant questions pertaining to religious belief-the existence of God, immortality, the nature of religious belief, and religion in relation to science, ethics, politics, and society - the selections in this volume present a challenge to religion on all fronts. Included are Bertrand Russell and A J Ayer on the existence of God, Percy Bysshe Shelley on the 'argument from design', Lucretius on life after death, David Hume on superstition, Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Christianity's demeaning influence on women's social status, Gore Vidal on modern American fundamentalism, and many other notable writers on controversial issues. S T Joshi has carefully selected essays that are eloquent, poignant, satirical, and philosophically rigorous, and has also supplied explanatory annotations and a general introduction that succinctly and forcefully summarises the atheistic critique of religion.
S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer, scholar, and editor. His books include The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism; Documents of American Prejudice; In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice against Women; God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong; Atheism: A Reader; H. L. Mencken on Religion; The Agnostic Reader; What Is Man? and Other Irreverent Essays by Mark Twain and The Angry Right: Why Conservatives Keep Getting It Wrong.
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