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Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt

By Alec Ryrie

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780674243262
DOI
10.4159/9780674243262
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1523276 bytes)
Pages
288\272
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 11:16:45

Description

Long before philosophers started making the case for atheism, powerful, affectively laden cultural currents were sowing doubt in Europe. Alec Ryrie looks to the history of the Reformation and argues that emotions—anger at priestly corruption and anxieties attending the erosion of time-honored certainties—were the handmaidens of atheism.

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