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The agnostic reader
- Title
- The agnostic reader / edited by S.T. Joshi.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.
- Description
- 386 p. ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007022202.html
- Other contributors
- Joshi, S. T., 1958-
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-386). I-UNIVLIB: Copy 1: Robert L. Payton Collection.
- Contents
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- Some overviews
- Agnosticism and Christianity (1889) / Thomas Henry Huxley
- Agnosticism (1889) / Edgar Fawcett
- Why I am an agnostic (1929) / Clarence Darrow
- What is an agnostic? (1953) / Bertrand Russell
- The critical study of religion
- The life of Jesus critically examined (1835) / David Friedrich Strauss
- Primitive culture (1871) / Edward Burnett Tylor
- About the Holy Bible (1894) / Robert G. Ingersoll
- Christianity and morals (1939) / Edward Westermarck
- Agnosticism and science
- History of the conflict between religion and science (1874) / John William Draper
- The pre-Darwinite and post-Darwinite world (1877) / Moncure Daniel Conway
- Science and religion (1941) / Albert Einstein
- In the beginning
- (1981) / Isaac Asimov
- The deficiencies of religion
- The Christian system (1851) / Arthur Schopenhauer
- The ethics of religion (1877) / W. K. Clifford
- Christianity and civilization (1914) / Charles T. Gorham
- Christianity in decline
- Rationalism in Europe (1865) / W.E.H. Lecky
- Are we Christians? (1873) / Leslie Stephen
- The twilight of Christianity (1929) / Harry Elmer Barnes
- God in the modern world (1929) / Walter Lippmann
- The agnostic way of life
- Secularism the true philosophy of life (1879) / G.W. Foote
- On happiness (1927) / H.L. Mencken
- The ethics of humanism (1949) / Corliss Lamont.
- Summary
- This reader prints selections of some of the most profound and pioneering discussions of agnosticism over the past two centuries, including essays by Thomas Henry Huxley (who coined the term), Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, and others.
- Subject headings
- Agnosticism.
- ISBN
- 9781591025337 1591025338