Freethinkers
Title | Freethinkers PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Jacoby |
Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2005-01-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1429934751 |
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.
Raising Freethinkers
Title | Raising Freethinkers PDF eBook |
Author | Dale McGowan |
Publisher | AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0814410960 |
Raising Freethinkers offers solutions to the unique challenges secular parents face and provides specific answers to common questions, as well as over 100 activities for both parents and their children. Covers every important topic nonreligious parents need to know to help their children with their own moral and intellectual development.
The Freethinker's Prayer Book
Title | The Freethinker's Prayer Book PDF eBook |
Author | Khushwant Singh |
Publisher | Rupa Publications |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9788192328041 |
Quotations from various sacred, philosophical, and literary texts and authors.
The Freethinker's Text-book
Title | The Freethinker's Text-book PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Bradlaugh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1876 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN |
The Freethinker s Text Book
Title | The Freethinker s Text Book PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Besant |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2019-09-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3734095174 |
Reproduction of the original: The Freethinker s Text Book by Annie Besant
Just Pretend
Title | Just Pretend PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Barker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 71 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Atheism |
ISBN | 9781877733055 |
Compares concepts of God to concepts of other mythological beings and stories.
Women Without Superstition
Title | Women Without Superstition PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Laurie Gaylor |
Publisher | Freedom from Religion Foundation |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
The collected writings of women freethinkers of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries