Freethinkers In Europe
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Author |
: Carolin Kosuch |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2020-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110688283 |
ISBN-13 |
: 311068828X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freethinkers in Europe by : Carolin Kosuch
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. Its focus is on freethinkers taken as secular avant-gardes and early promoters of secularity. The authors of this book deal with multiple historical, religious, social, and cultural backgrounds and, in these contexts, analyze freethinkers' organizations, projects, networks, and contributions to forming a secular worldview, in particular, the promotion of concrete undertakings such as civil baptism or initiatives to leave church. Next to this secularist agenda, the contributions also take into account ambivalences and difficulties freethinkers were faced with, namely, the tensions between a national self-image and the transnational direction the movement has taken; the regional base of many projects and their transregional horizon; freethinkers' cultural programs and their immanent political mission; and the dialogue with respectively the conceptual distinction from other secularist groups. Readers interested in the history of secularity will learn that it was a heterogeneous enterprise already in its beginnings. This set the course for later European and global developments.
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: Carolin Kosuch |
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ISBN-10 |
: 311068716X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783110687163 |
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: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Freethinkers in Europe by : Carolin Kosuch
Author |
: Carolin Kosuch |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 397 |
Release |
: 2020-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110688320 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110688328 |
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: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freethinkers in Europe by : Carolin Kosuch
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. Its focus is on freethinkers taken as secular avant-gardes and early promoters of secularity. The authors of this book deal with multiple historical, religious, social, and cultural backgrounds and, in these contexts, analyze freethinkers' organizations, projects, networks, and contributions to forming a secular worldview, in particular, the promotion of concrete undertakings such as civil baptism or initiatives to leave church. Next to this secularist agenda, the contributions also take into account ambivalences and difficulties freethinkers were faced with, namely, the tensions between a national self-image and the transnational direction the movement has taken; the regional base of many projects and their transregional horizon; freethinkers' cultural programs and their immanent political mission; and the dialogue with respectively the conceptual distinction from other secularist groups. Readers interested in the history of secularity will learn that it was a heterogeneous enterprise already in its beginnings. This set the course for later European and global developments.
Author |
: Tomáš Bubík |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2020-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000039832 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000039838 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe by : Tomáš Bubík
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In contrast to scholarship that has focused on the ‘decline of religion’ and secularization theory, the book builds upon recent trends to focus on the ‘rise of non-religion’ itself. While the label of ‘post-communism’ might suggest a generalized perception of the region, this survey reveals that the precise developments in each country before, after and even during the communist era are surprisingly diverse. A multinational team of contributors provide interdisciplinary case studies covering Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria. This approach utilises perspectives from social and intellectual history in combination with sociology of religion in order to cover the historical development of secularity and secular thought, complemented with sociological data. The study is framed by methodological and analytical chapters. Offering an important geographical perspective to the study of freethought, atheism, secularity and non-religion, this wide-ranging book will be of significant interest to scholars of twentieth-century social and intellectual history, sociology of religion and non-religion, cultural and religious studies, philosophy and theology.
Author |
: Samuel Porter Putnam |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1178 |
Release |
: 1894 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044083029140 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis 400 Years of Freethought by : Samuel Porter Putnam
Author |
: De Robigne Mortimer Bennett |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 864 |
Release |
: 1881 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433082477831 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Truth Seeker in Europe by : De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
Author |
: Janet Elizabeth Courtney |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1920 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015025366082 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freethinkers of the Nineteenth Century by : Janet Elizabeth Courtney
Author |
: Silvia Berti |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 562 |
Release |
: 1996-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0792341929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780792341925 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe by : Silvia Berti
'the oldest biography of Spinoza', La Vie de Mr. Spinosa, which in the manuscript copies is often followed by L'Esprit de M. Spinosa. Margaret Jacob, in her Radical Enlightenment, contended that the Traite was written by a radical group of Freemasons in The Hague in the early eighteenth century. Silvia Berti has offered evidence it was written by Jan Vroesen. Various discussions in the early eighteenth century consider many possi ble authors from the Renaissance onwards to whom the work might be attributed. The Trois imposteurs has attracted quite a bit of recent attention as one of the most significant irreligious clandestine writings available in the Enlightenment, which is most important for understanding the develop ment of religious scepticism, radical deism, and even atheism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars for the last couple of decades have been trying to assess when the work was actually written or compiled and by whom. In view of the widespread distribution of manu scripts of the work all over Europe, they have also been seeking to find out who was influenced by the work, and what it represented for its time. Hitherto unknown manuscripts are being turned up in public and private libraries all over Europe and the United States.
Author |
: Michael Hunter |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2020-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300243581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300243588 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Decline of Magic by : Michael Hunter
A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.
Author |
: John Mackinnon Robertson |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2001-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1855068877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781855068872 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Freethought in the Nineteenth Century by : John Mackinnon Robertson
A continuation of Robertson's A History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, this work centred on Europe and American freethought in the century that saw the greatest surge of religious doubt and scepticism. At the heart of this work lies the doctrine of evolution and the birth of 'new' sciences like anthropology, psychology, sociology and the growth of ethics without religious dogma. Together these works tell an exciting story and would be of benefit to all students of the history of ideas whatever their core interest. --sole lifetime edition of major and pioneering intellectual source book --important biographical source for pre and post-Darwinian religious thinking in Europe and America --attractively illustrated with 48 portraits --packed with cross-references and bibliographical information --relevant to all historians of ideas