Outcasts and heretics
Subtitle: profiles in independent thought and courage
By: Donald Sharpes
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780739123171; 9780739123188
Subjects: Philosophy and religion; Theologians; Philosophers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-344) and index
Table of contents: title: Modern outcasts; title: Great souls of the modern age; title: Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1942); title: Martin Luther King (1929-1968); title: Bantu Steven Kiko (1946-1977); title: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969- ); title: Twentieth century dissenters; title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945); title: Kaj Munk (1898-1945); title: World War II German army deserters; title: Edith Stein (1891-1942); title: Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-); title: Authors and outsiders; title: American outsiders; title: Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683); title: Thomas Paine (1737-1809); title: Cochise (c.1815-1874); title: Red Cloud (1882-1909); title: Skeptical scientists as dissidents; title: What Americans believe; title: Charles Darwin (1809-1882); title: Natural selection over time; title: Evidence about human origins; title: Intelligent design; title: Witches and other pagans; title: Alice Kyteler, medieval Irish witch; title: Witches among the Puritans; title: Mary Dyer (1611-1660); title: Modern wiccas; title: The legacy of religious heresy and dissent; title: Pre-Christian dissenters; title: Paleolithic beliefs; title: Greek mystery religions; title: Sources of the literary tradition; title: Anaxagoras; title: Protagoras; title: Empedocles; title: Socrates; title: Chinese ideologies; title: Cicero (106-43 BCE) : On the nature of the gods; title: The religion of the Romans; title: Heretics in the first Christian centuries; title: First century Rome; title: Apollonius of Tyana, contemporary of Jesus; title: Marcion, the heretic; title: Tertullian and the montanists; title: The proliferation of heresies; title: Cyprian of Carthage; title: The age of religious dissension; title: Emperor Julian; title: Nestorius; title: Pelagius : original sin and grace; title: Boethius; title: Heresy in medieval Islam and Christianity; title: Islam and the infidels; title: Islamic dissidents; title: The crusades; title: The rise of the military orders and the fall of the Templars; title: The crusade against heretics and the Cathars; title: Peter Abelard; title: Roger Bacon , alchemist; title: Heretics condemned; title: Late medieval reformers; title: John Wycliffe; title: John Hus; title: Cecco d'Ascoli and astrology; title: Marcilius (Marsiglio) of Padua; title: Saint Joan (1412-1431); title: William Tyndale; title: Girolamo Savonarola; title: Renaissance dissenters; title: Giordano Bruno; title: Thomas More : a man for all seasons; title: Johannes Kepler; title: Rene Descartes; title: Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza; title: Voltaire; title: Two queens, one princess; title: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; title: Queen Christina of Sweden; title: Elisabeth von der Pfalz, princess Palatine; title: Enlightenment dissenters; title: Denis Diderot; title: Philip-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; title: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier; title: Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet