Imagine there's no heaven [Texte imprimé] : how atheism helped create the modern world / Mitchell Stephens

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Prologue: everything must be examined -- How can that be? why disbelief -- The clear truth of what happened: disbelief and learning arrive together in greece -- They forbid rational speculation: disbelief and learning decline together in christian europe -- Nothing but this visible world: Europe's return to reason -- How heaven goes: disbelief and science in the seventeenth century -- Open your eyes: the beginnings of the enlightenment -- Bombs on the house of the lord: the enlightenment argument for atheism -- The beast let loose: revolution in america and france -- This glorious land of freedom: abolition, suffrage and freethinking -- Free rovers on the broad, bright, breezy common of the universe: working class atheism in nineteenth-century britain -- To wipe away the entire horizon: creating the twentieth century -- The passions of the earth: living without gods -- This breach of naiveté: secularism in Europe and America