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Freethought Across The Centuries: Toward a New Age of Enlightenment by Gerald A. Larue published by Humanist Press

The freethought movement has long needed a solid textbook for academic and personal reading lists. A work that could supplement classroom and independent studies on the nature of religion and its historical role in the cultures, societies, and governments of human history, ancient and modern. Dr. Gerald Laure's Freethought Across The Centuries is a wonderful compendium of freethought history, ideology, philosophy, and personalities that is ideal for meeting this long-felt need. In addition to being superb for supplemental reading lists, Freethought Across The Centuries is ideal for a stand-alone textbook for a curriculum class studying the history of religion and the freethought movement from antiquity to the present day. The sections are: Concerning Freethought; On Teaching About Religion; In The Beginning (cave paintings, sculptures, and prehistoric towns and cities); The Birth Of The Gods; Mesopotamia; Egypt; Israel and Judaism; Greece; Rome; Christianity; Islam; Africa; India; China; Japan; Americans Before Columbus; Europe "Discovers" America; The Conquest Of North America; The European Heritage (The Renaissance, The Protestant Reformation, The Enlightenment); Freethought Expands Freedoms (Women, Indians, Slaves, Religious Freedom in America). Perhaps the single most important section is "Freethought in America": (Some Pioneering Freethinkers; Modern Education, Freethought and Religion; Psychology, Freethought and Religion; The Sciences and Freethought; Modern Biblical Research and Freethought; Biblical Creationism, Freethought and Modern Science; Geology, Freethought and the Bible; Anthropology, Freethought and the Bible; Poets, Writers, Singers and Freethought); Conclusions. There is also an extensive appendix of Freethought organizations and literature. The index is especially useful for cross-references and the writings of papers. Freethought Across The Centuries is 516 pages packed with useful information brought together under one cover. A truly prodigious accomplishment and one that will prove to be a seminally important work. Freethought Across The Centuries is a "must have" addition to the bookshelves of all freethought organizations and freethought movement spokespersons.

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