Author: John Watts
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Author: Charles Collins, Anthony Watts John Bradlaugh
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361159089
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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"Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers" is a collaborative artwork authored by Charles Bradlaugh, Anthony Collins, and John Watts. The book is an extensive ancient compilation that provides biographical sketches of influential those who challenged conventional spiritual doctrines, advocating for freethought and rationalism. Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891) have become an outstanding British atheist, political activist, and recommend for secularism. Anthony Collins (1676–1729) grow to be an English truth seeker regarded for his contributions to Enlightenment idea, emphasizing purpose and skepticism. Unfortunately, facts about John Watts is much less easily available. The book explores the lives and mind of celebrated freethinkers from each historic and modern-day durations, showcasing people who courageously wondered triumphing spiritual norms. By supplying insightful biographies, the authors make contributions to the highbrow records of freethought, emphasizing the significance of vital inquiry and hard set up dogmas. "Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers" remains a valuable ancient report, providing readers a glimpse into the minds of people who played pivotal roles in shaping the landscape of intellectual freedom and skepticism.

Author: Karen Sawyer
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1782790233
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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A collection of controversial research and alternative worldviews, presenting new and exciting ways of thinking about life as we know it.

Author: Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429934751
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times) At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby paints a striking portrait of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth century's civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who, allied with liberal and tolerant religious believers, have stood at the forefront of the battle for reforms opposed by reactionary forces in the past and today. Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Clarence Darrow—as well as once-famous secularists such as Robert Green Ingersoll, "the Great Agnostic"—Freethinkers restores to history generations of dedicated humanists. It is they, Jacoby shows, who have led the struggle to uphold the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system.

Author: Dan Barker
Publisher: Freedom from Religion Fndtn
ISBN: 9780318424958
Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 71

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Author: Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Annie Laurie Gaylor
Publisher: Freedom from Religion Foundation
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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The collected writings of women freethinkers of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs
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Category : United States Virgin Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Layle Silbert
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 9781583220757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Layle Silbert's stories trace struggles and joys of lives overlooked. In The Free Thinkers: Two Novellas, she gives these lost lives a new voice, recovering in exacting detail the world of newly arrived Eastern European Jews in turn-of-the-century-America. Silbert's stories chronicle their arrival in Chicago and New York, and follow them as they trade Yiddish and Russian for English, find work in factories and Jewish newspapers, attend Zionist meetings, and struggle toward the promise of freedom and happiness. The Free Thinkers tells two tales. The first novella focuses on Ida, an independent woman, a "freethinker" devoted to finding her own way in America. A factory forelady, a patron of the theater, and an instinctive feminist, she is determined to find total freedom in a man's world-no matter where it leads her. The collection's other novella chronicles the lives of three sisters from the Ukraine as they find husbands and start their own families in America. Two masterful chapters at the heart of the novella describe their mother's arrival, after the great war and the revolution, to a small Indiana town. She is "a vision, in her clothes, her posture, the very air around her, a vision of a sight on a street in the village they'd all come from, suddenly seamlessly transported into this pleasant spring morning to the very middle of America." In Layle Silbert's tender Stories of the New World, as in the best stories of Chekov, the slightest gesture carries with it the weight of the world. Nothing happens, everything happens. Silbert's writing is delicate, as if dusted by the wings of a visiting angel, here to present for posterity the way things were.