The Resource Imagine there's no heaven : how atheism helped create the modern world, Mitchell Stephens
Imagine there's no heaven : how atheism helped create the modern world, Mitchell Stephens
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The item Imagine there's no heaven : how atheism helped create the modern world, Mitchell Stephens represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, this book explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 328 pages
- Contents
-
- Prologue : 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
- Isbn
- 9781137002600
- Label
- Imagine there's no heaven : how atheism helped create the modern world
- Title
- Imagine there's no heaven
- Title remainder
- how atheism helped create the modern world
- Statement of responsibility
- Mitchell Stephens
- Title variation
- Imagine there is no heaven
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, this book explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stephens, Mitchell
- Dewey number
- 211/.809
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BL2747.3
- LC item number
- .S748 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Atheism
- Atheism
- Atheism
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Imagine there's no heaven : how atheism helped create the modern world, Mitchell Stephens
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-320) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue : 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
- Control code
- ocn852658386
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 328 pages
- Isbn
- 9781137002600
- Lccn
- 2013035039
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Note
- 211.8 ST44 ; XX-N ; es ; Y13BP042.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 852658386
- (OCoLC)852658386
- Label
- Imagine there's no heaven : how atheism helped create the modern world, Mitchell Stephens
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-320) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue : 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
- Control code
- ocn852658386
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 328 pages
- Isbn
- 9781137002600
- Lccn
- 2013035039
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Note
- 211.8 ST44 ; XX-N ; es ; Y13BP042.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 852658386
- (OCoLC)852658386
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