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Icons of Unbelief: Atheists, Agnostics, and Secularists (Greenwood Icons)
Icons of Unbelief Atheists Agnostics and Secularists - Greenwood Icons In the opinion of many critics and philosophers, we are entering an age of atheism marked by the waning of Christian fundamentalism and the flourishing of secular thought. Never before has atheism and agnosticism been so prevalent in American society, as testified by the simultaneous appearance of 2 atheist volumes on the bestseller lists: Richa... more »rd Dawkins's The God Delusion and Sam Harris's Letter to a Christian Nation. This volume profiles some of the key figures and groups who have advanced religious unbelief over the past 200 years. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 27 iconic figures of unbelief, such as:
Charles Bradlaugh
Richard Dawkins
Daniel C. Dennett
Albert Einstein
The Existentialists
The Founding Fathers
Sigmund Freud
Sam Harris
Robert G. Ingersoll
Friedrich Nietzsche
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Mark Twain
Voltaire
And more. Each entry discusses the ideas and lasting significance of the person or group, provides sidebars of interesting information and quotations, and closes with a list of works for further reading. The volume ends with a selected, general bibliography. Students in history and social studies classes will welcome this reference as a guide to the American separation of Church and State and to the ideas central to contemporary political debates.