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.
| ISBN: | 9780307948779 |
| Publication date: | 18th October 2016 |
| Author: | Tim Whitmarsh |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Genres: |
Ancient history Agnosticism and atheism Philosophical traditions and schools of thought |
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.
Battling the Gods features in the following genres: Ancient history, Agnosticism and atheism, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
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Battling the Gods was written by Tim Whitmarsh and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Battling the Gods has 304 pages