The Ethics of Atheism
The history of a sect can scarcely avoid dancing with sectarianism. Even if the sect has vanished from the earth, it is difficult not to become either a defender or a critic, and when there are controversies still living, history cannot help but feed them and feed off them. The only certain way to a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2017, Volume: 68, Issue: 2, Pages: 361-369 |
| Review of: | Atheism and deism revalued (Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014) (Ryrie, Alec)
Anti-atheism in early modern England (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2015) (Ryrie, Alec) The soul of doubt (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016) (Ryrie, Alec) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Atheism
/ Ethics
/ History 1500-1900
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBA Western Europe NCA Ethics |
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Book review
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| Summary: | The history of a sect can scarcely avoid dancing with sectarianism. Even if the sect has vanished from the earth, it is difficult not to become either a defender or a critic, and when there are controversies still living, history cannot help but feed them and feed off them. The only certain way to avoid this is to retreat inside the sect entirely, becoming part of a world where it is the only and obvious subject of interest. And so the histories of religious minorities easily become self-referential ghettoes, where formidable expertise is built up while basic questions about how the subject is framed are left unasked. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046916001433 |