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Alexandra Walsham: Atheistical Thoughts, 25 April 2024
Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience
by Michael Hunter.
Cambridge, 223 pp., £30, July 2023,978 1 009 26877 6 Show More
by Michael Hunter.
Cambridge, 223 pp., £30, July 2023,
“... a quarter of England’s estimated population), were atheists. By 1695 the Protestant divine John Edwards surmised that ‘there is scarcely a Town where there are not some that may justly be reckon’d in this number.’ The widespread anxiety about the rise of irreligion reflected in sermons, pamphlets and tracts is hard to reconcile with the shortage of ... ”