- Introduction
- 1. An Age of Suspicion
- Impostors, Drunkards and Flat-Earthers
- The Fool’s Heart
- Physicians, ‘Naturians’ and ‘Nulla Fidians’
- From Ancient to Modern
- 2. The Reformation and the Battle for Credulity
- Calvin and the Epicures
- Between Superstition and Impiety
- ‘Doubt Wisely’: From Innocence to Experience
- 3. The Atheist’s Comedy
- Incest, Thunder and Wishful Thinking
- Shaking Off the Yoke
- The Good Atheist
- 4. The Puritan Atheist
- ‘The Monster of the Creation’
- Horrid Temptations
- Fear of Flying
- 5. Seeking and Losing Faith
- ‘It’s a Great Matter to Believe there is a God’
- The Spiritualists’ Progress
- Farther Up and Farther In
- Seeking a Rock to Build On
- 6. The Abolition of God
- The Three Impostors
- From Then to Now, I: Anger
- From Then to Now, II: Anxiety
- From Jesus to Hitler
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
Unbelievers
An Emotional History of Doubt
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Publication Date: 11/19/2019
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