Unbelievers : an emotional history of doubt

Ryrie, Alec2021

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Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? In 'Unbelievers', the award-winning author of 'Protestants' reminds us that atheism did not appear out of thin air - it has its own history. Ryrie looks back to the Middle Ages, when it seemed impossible not to subscribe to Christianity, through the crisis of the Reformation and to the powerful, challenging cultural currents of the centuries. The religious journey of the Western world was lived and steered not just by the celebrated thinkers of the day - the Machiavellis and Michel de Montaignes - but by men and women at every level of society, whose voices and feelings permeate this book in the form of diaries, letters and court records.