Dale McGowan, PhD, writes the popular secular blog The Meming of Life, teaches secular parenting workshops across North America, and is executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, a humanist charitable organization. He has been interviewed in major publications, such as Newsweek and the New York Times, and was 2008 Harvard Humanist of the Year.
Introduction 1 Part I: Understanding What Atheism Is 7 Chapter 1: Meeting
Atheism 9 Chapter 2: Unweaving the Rainbow of Disbelief 19 Chapter 3:
Recognizing What Atheists Do and Don't Believe -- and Why 37 Part II:
Following Atheism through the Ages 63 Chapter 4: Finding Atheism in the
Ancient World 65 Chapter 5: Going Medieval 79 Chapter 6: Enlightening
Strikes 91 Chapter 7: Opening a Golden Age of Freethought 107 Chapter 8:
Growing Up in the Tumultuous 20th Century 121 Chapter 9: Voicing a New
Atheism, and a New Humanism, for the 21st Century 145 Part III: Reading the
Great Works of Atheism 169 Chapter 10: Uncovering Lost, Secret, Censored,
and Forbidden Works 171 Chapter 11: Sampling Important Works: Deep
Thoughts, Big Thinkers 183 Chapter 12: Laughing in Disbelief: Challenging
the Divine with Humor 203 Chapter 13: Reawakening Passionate Disbelief: Key
Works of the 21st Century 217 Part IV: Living a Full Life without Belief in
God 233 Chapter 14: Getting Personal with Atheism Today 235 Chapter 15:
Being Good with or without God 253 Chapter 16: Seeing the World Naturally
275 Chapter 17: Being an Atheist in a Religious World 291 Chapter 18:
Getting the Best of Religion ... and Leaving the Rest 311 Part V: The Part
of Tens 327 Chapter 19: Ten Surprising Things about Atheists and Other
Nonbelievers 329 Chapter 20: Ten (Plus One) Famous People You May Not Know
are Nonbelievers 335 Chapter 21: Ten Fun and Easy Ways to Explore Atheism
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