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Author : Riccardo Fubini
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2003-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822330028
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Author : Stephen Law
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199553645
Summary: Philosopher Stephen Law explains why humanism--though a rejection of religion--nevertheless provides both a moral basis and a meaning for our lives.-publisher description.
Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1474224555
The Western World is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened? Becoming Atheist explores how people of the sixties' generation have come to live their lives as if there is no God. It tells the life narratives of those from Britain, Western Europe, the United States and Canada who came from Christian, Jewish and other backgrounds to be without faith. Based on interviews with 85 people born in 18 countries, Callum Brown shows how gender, ethnicity and childhood shape how individuals lose religion. This book moves from statistical and broad cultural analysis to use frank, humorous and sometimes harrowing personal testimony. Becoming Atheist exposes people's role in renegotiating their own identities, and fashioning a secular and humanist culture for the Western world.
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674986911
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Author : Robert E. Webber
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Lewis Vaughn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742513938
The Case for Humanism is the premier textbook to introduce and help students think critically about the big ideas of Western humanism--secularism, rationalism, materialism, science, democracy, individualism, and others--all powerful themes that run through Western thought from the ancient Greeks and the Enlightenment to the present day. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307371662
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar’s grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, ‘Lady Black Eyes’, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerised by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The Enchantress of Florence is a love story and a mystery – the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other – the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia’s boyhood friend ‘il Machia’ – Niccolò Machiavelli – is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor’s story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he’s a liar, must he die?
Author : James Hitchcock
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
There are very few terms about which there is more confusion and controversy than "secular humanism." Hitchcock examines what secular humanism is, and how it affects individuals.
Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1615926402
A spirited defense of secular humanism against fundamentalist critics.
Author : Andrew Copson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198809131
What is secularism? -- Secularism in Western societies -- Secularism diversifies -- The case for Secularism -- The case against Secularism -- Conceptions of Secularism -- Hard questions and new conflicts -- Afterword: the future of Secularism