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010 $a 2013035039
020 $a9781137002600 (hbk.)
020 $a1137002603 (hbk.)
024 $a40023364988
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035 $a(OCoLC)852658386
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050 00 $aBL2747.3$b.S748 2014
082 00 $a211/.809$223
100 1 $aStephens, Mitchell.
245 10 $aImagine there's no heaven :$bhow atheism helped create the modern world /$cMitchell Stephens.
246 3 $aImagine there is no heaven
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 328 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: Everything must be examined -- How can that be? Why disbelief -- A clear understanding of what happened: disbelief and learning arrive together in Greece -- They forbid rational speculation: disbelief and learning decline together in Christian Europe -- Nothing but this visible world: Europe's return to reason -- How Heaven goes: disbelief and science in the seventeenth century -- Open your eyes: the beginnings of the enlightenment -- Bombs on the House of the Lord: the enlightenment argument for atheism -- The beast let loose: revolution in America and France -- This glorious land of freedom: abolition, suffrage and freethinking -- Free rovers on the broad, bright, breezy common of the universe: working-class atheism in nineteenth-century Britain -- To wipe away the entire horizon: creating the twentieth century -- The passions of this earth: living without gods -- The gods are being driven from the earth: secularism in Europe and America -- This breach of naïveté: religion unguarded -- Epilogue: Above us only sky.
650 0 $aAtheism$xHistory.
650 0 $aAtheism$xInfluence.
650 0 $aAtheism$xSocial aspects$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hBL2747.3$i.S748 2014