How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities.Whitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a light on atheism’s first thousand years, Battling the Gods offers a timely reminder that nonbelief has a wealth of tradition of its own, and, indeed, its own heroes.
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World
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Author: Whitmarsh, Tim
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307948779
Details:
Author: Whitmarsh, Tim
Brand: Vintage
Color: Navy
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 304
Release Date: 18-10-2016
Part Number: 0307948773_used
Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 1.0 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780307948779
