Outcasts and heretics: profiles in independent thought and courage

Modern outcasts -- Great souls of the modern age -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1942) -- Martin Luther King (1929-1968) -- Bantu Steven Kiko (1946-1977) -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969- ) -- Twentieth century dissenters -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) -- Kaj Munk (1898-1945) -- World War II German army desert...

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Main Author: Sharpes, Donald K. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Lanham [u.a.] Lexington Books 2007
In:Year: 2007
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religious leader / Dissenter / Heretic
Further subjects:B Philosophers
B Philosophy and religion
B Biography
B Theologians
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Summary:Modern outcasts -- Great souls of the modern age -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1942) -- Martin Luther King (1929-1968) -- Bantu Steven Kiko (1946-1977) -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969- ) -- Twentieth century dissenters -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) -- Kaj Munk (1898-1945) -- World War II German army deserters -- Edith Stein (1891-1942) -- Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-) -- Authors and outsiders -- American outsiders -- Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Cochise (c.1815-1874) -- Red Cloud (1882-1909) -- Skeptical scientists as dissidents -- What Americans believe -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- Natural selection over time -- Evidence about human origins -- Intelligent design -- Witches and other pagans -- Alice Kyteler, medieval Irish witch -- Witches among the Puritans -- Mary Dyer (1611-1660) -- Modern wiccas -- The legacy of religious heresy and dissent -- Pre-Christian dissenters -- Paleolithic beliefs -- Greek mystery religions -- .Sources of the literary tradition -- Anaxagoras -- Protagoras -- Empedocles -- Socrates -- Chinese ideologies -- Cicero (106-43 BCE) : On the nature of the gods -- The religion of the Romans -- Heretics in the first Christian centuries -- First century Rome -- Apollonius of Tyana, contemporary of Jesus -- Marcion, the heretic -- Tertullian and the montanists -- The proliferation of heresies -- Cyprian of Carthage -- The age of religious dissension -- Emperor Julian -- Nestorius -- Pelagius : original sin and grace -- Boethius -- Heresy in medieval Islam and Christianity -- Islam and the infidels -- Islamic dissidents -- The crusades -- The rise of the military orders and the fall of the Templars -- The crusade against heretics and the Cathars -- Peter Abelard -- Roger Bacon , alchemist -- Heretics condemned -- Late medieval reformers -- John Wycliffe -- John Hus -- Cecco d'Ascoli and astrology -- Marcilius (Marsiglio) of Padua -- Saint Joan (1412-1431) -- William Tyndale -- .Girolamo Savonarola -- Renaissance dissenters -- Giordano Bruno -- Thomas More : a man for all seasons -- Johannes Kepler -- Rene Descartes -- Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza -- Voltaire -- Two queens, one princess -- Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots -- Queen Christina of Sweden -- Elisabeth von der Pfalz, princess Palatine -- Enlightenment dissenters -- Denis Diderot -- Philip-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais -- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier -- Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-344) and index
ISBN:0739123173