Why i am not a christian: and other essays on religion and related subjects
Material type: TextPublication details: Routledge New York 2004Description: xxiv, 223 pISBN:- 9781138301450
- 211 RUS
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Book | Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks | Public Policy & General Management | 211 RUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 007019 |
Table of content;
Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition -- Editor’s Introduction -- Preface by Bertrand Russell -- 1 Why I am not a Christian -- 2 Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilisation? -- 3 Do We Survive Death? -- 4 Seems, Madam? Nay, it is -- 5 On Catholic and Protestant Sceptics -- 6 Life in the Middle Ages -- 7 The Fate of Thomas Paine -- 8 Nice People -- 9 The New Generation -- 10 Our Sexual Ethics -- 11 Freedom and the Colleges -- 12 The Existence of God—a Debate Between Bertrand Russell and Father F. C. Copleston, SJ -- 13 Can Religion Cure Our Troubles? -- 14 Religion and Morals -- Appendix: How Bertrand Russell was Prevented from Teaching at the College of the City of New York -- Index.
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While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief.
Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought we to behave? Russell snatches that comfort away, leaving us instead with other, more troublesome alternatives: responsibility, autonomy, self-awareness. He tells us that the time to live is now, the place to live is here, and the way to be happy is to ensure others are happy.
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