Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
7. When Did It Become Possible to Identify as an Atheist?
Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
Gavin Hyman [+]
University of Lancaster
Gavin Hyman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, University of Lancaster, UK. He has written widely on atheism and on the philosophy of
religion more generally, including A Short History of Atheism (2010).
Description
This chapter looks as the emergence of the term atheism, its original meaning, and its subsequent development into a defintion recognisable by us in the contemporary world. It also examines the process by which it was adopted as a term of self-definiton.