Unbelievers - An Emotional History of Doubt

The award-winning author of Protestants offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women--so often left out of the history of atheism.eism.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Alec Ryrie is a prizewinning historian of the Reformation and Protestantism. He is the author of Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt and Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World. Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University and Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alec Ryrie
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780674241824
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24182-4
• Seiten: 272
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Sonstiges