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A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of Allages and Nations
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This volume brings together for the first time case studies on secularists of the 19th and early 20th centuries in national and transnational perspectives including examples from all over Europe.
A corrective to the much-discussed Victorian `crisis of faith', this study focuses upon several prominent individuals who experienced a `crisis of doubt' and made the reverse journey, abandoning secularism to defend Christianity.
... O'Brien and Ernest Jones , mixed with unorthodox Christians such as Ebenezer Syme , Henry Ierson and Henry Barnett , and local Socialists such as James Wilkie of Glasgow , Joseph Smith of Leeds and James Campbell of Manchester .
The story of the “conflict thesis” between science and religion—the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two—is part of our modern self-understanding.
... given to academies in Italian educational policies and compared them with the policies of other European countries such as “Western Germany [the former territories of Baden, Hesse and Westphalia, L.M.] and the whole of Switzerland”, ...
One salient work, Timothy Larsen's Crisis of Doubt (2006), is especially relevant to this discussion.4 In a critical intervention into the histories of freethought, secularism, and religion, Larsen coins the phrase 'crisis of doubt' to ...