Author: Riccardo Fubini
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Table of contents
Humanism and Secularization
Author: Riccardo Fubini
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Table of contents
Humanism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Stephen Law
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199553645
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Summary: Philosopher Stephen Law explains why humanism--though a rejection of religion--nevertheless provides both a moral basis and a meaning for our lives.-publisher description.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199553645
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Summary: Philosopher Stephen Law explains why humanism--though a rejection of religion--nevertheless provides both a moral basis and a meaning for our lives.-publisher description.
A Secular Age
Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674986911
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674986911
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Becoming Atheist
Author: Callum G. Brown
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474224555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Western World is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened? Becoming Atheist explores how people of the sixties' generation have come to live their lives as if there is no God. It tells the life narratives of those from Britain, Western Europe, the United States and Canada who came from Christian, Jewish and other backgrounds to be without faith. Based on interviews with 85 people born in 18 countries, Callum Brown shows how gender, ethnicity and childhood shape how individuals lose religion. This book moves from statistical and broad cultural analysis to use frank, humorous and sometimes harrowing personal testimony. Becoming Atheist exposes people's role in renegotiating their own identities, and fashioning a secular and humanist culture for the Western world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474224555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Western World is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened? Becoming Atheist explores how people of the sixties' generation have come to live their lives as if there is no God. It tells the life narratives of those from Britain, Western Europe, the United States and Canada who came from Christian, Jewish and other backgrounds to be without faith. Based on interviews with 85 people born in 18 countries, Callum Brown shows how gender, ethnicity and childhood shape how individuals lose religion. This book moves from statistical and broad cultural analysis to use frank, humorous and sometimes harrowing personal testimony. Becoming Atheist exposes people's role in renegotiating their own identities, and fashioning a secular and humanist culture for the Western world.
Secular Humanism, Threat and Challenge
Author: Robert E. Webber
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Enchantress of Florence
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0307371662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar’s grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, ‘Lady Black Eyes’, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerised by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The Enchantress of Florence is a love story and a mystery – the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other – the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia’s boyhood friend ‘il Machia’ – Niccolò Machiavelli – is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor’s story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he’s a liar, must he die?
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0307371662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar’s grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, ‘Lady Black Eyes’, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerised by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The Enchantress of Florence is a love story and a mystery – the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other – the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia’s boyhood friend ‘il Machia’ – Niccolò Machiavelli – is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor’s story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he’s a liar, must he die?
The Case for Humanism
Author: Lewis Vaughn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742513938
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Case for Humanism is the premier textbook to introduce and help students think critically about the big ideas of Western humanism--secularism, rationalism, materialism, science, democracy, individualism, and others--all powerful themes that run through Western thought from the ancient Greeks and the Enlightenment to the present day. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742513938
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Case for Humanism is the premier textbook to introduce and help students think critically about the big ideas of Western humanism--secularism, rationalism, materialism, science, democracy, individualism, and others--all powerful themes that run through Western thought from the ancient Greeks and the Enlightenment to the present day. Visit our website for sample chapters!
What is Secular Humanism?
Author: James Hitchcock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
There are very few terms about which there is more confusion and controversy than "secular humanism." Hitchcock examines what secular humanism is, and how it affects individuals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
There are very few terms about which there is more confusion and controversy than "secular humanism." Hitchcock examines what secular humanism is, and how it affects individuals.
In Defense of Secular Humanism
Author: Paul Kurtz
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615926402
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A spirited defense of secular humanism against fundamentalist critics.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615926402
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A spirited defense of secular humanism against fundamentalist critics.
Humanism and Secularization
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
DIVExplores the Renaissance movement known as humanism that spread from Italy eventually to all of Western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being debated./div
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
DIVExplores the Renaissance movement known as humanism that spread from Italy eventually to all of Western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being debated./div