Ethical Record Book Reviews
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The Evolution of Atheism: The Politics of a Movement
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Estimated 9 min read
By: Stephen LeDew (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Review by: Dr Bill Cooke
The English historian Norman Stone once noted that doctoral dissertations are about amassing ponderous armies of facts to pursue a war of attrition on behalf of some trivial insight. The…
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The Evolution of Atheism: The Politics of a Movement
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Estimated 9 min read
By: Stephen LeDrew (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Review by: Dr Bill Cooke
The English historian Norman Stone once noted that doctoral dissertations are about amassing ponderous armies of facts to pursue a war of attrition on behalf of some trivial insight. The…
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Wilma’s Story: Growing up in Nazi Germany and Colonial Rhodesi
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Estimated 1 min read
By: Wilma Neumann (Hollander) Introduction by Doris Hollander Edited by Martin Page (Print Forum Ltd. (2016). 95 pages.)
Review by: Norman Bacrac
CHES member Martin Page is known to those interested in secularist history as the author of Britain’s Unknown Genius (1984), an account of the life of SPES Appointed Lecturer J.M.Robertson….
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Aspiring to the Truth: Two Hundred Years of the South Place Ethical Society
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Estimated 2 min read
By: Jim Herrick (Conway Hall Ethical Society (May 2016), 248 pages, £12)
Review by: Norman Bacrac
Freethought author and member of the Society, Jim Herrick, was commissioned to write an account of the history of this Society from its inception in 1793 to date. The first…
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What Does Europe Want? The Union and Its Discontents
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Estimated 4 min read
By: Slavoj Žižek and Srećko Horvat (Istros books (2013) 220 pages, £12)
Review by: Mazin Zeki
A double Freudian quote inspired by “What does a woman want?” plus the title of one of his most important works, raises the curtain on Slavoj Žižek’s (and Srećko Horvat’s)…
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Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World
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Estimated 1 min read
By: Tim Whitmarsh (Faber & Faber (2016))
Review by: Norman Bacrac
Tim Whitmarsh, Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge, has compiled a most valuable record of atheist thought in the ancient world of Greece and Rome. Humanists need to know this…
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Islamic Fascism by Hamed Abdel-Samad
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Estimated 5 min read
By: Hamed Abdel-Samad ((New York: Prometheus Books, 2016, 255 pp.)
Review by: Rumy Hasan
During the parliamentary debate on 2nd December 2015 on the bombing of Islamic State targets in Syria, Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn made an impassioned speech in favour of the…
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THE CONSOLATIONS OF AUTUMN
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Estimated 1 min read
By: Hazhir Teimourian (Peach Publishing (2015))
Review by: Norman Bacrac
Radio, television and Times journalist Hazhir Teimourian gave the keynote speech at the Ethical Society’s Annual Reunion of Kindred Societies a few years ago; he has also spoken to the…
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Breadline Britain – the return of mass poverty
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Estimated 1 min read
By: Stewart Lansley (with Joanna Mack) (Oneworld Publications (2015))
Review by: Tom Rubens
Stewart Lansley’s book Breadline Britain presents a concise and powerful analysis of the huge increase in economic inequality in Britain since the late 1970s. Today, the top 1% of the…
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The Athiest’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions
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Estimated 2 min read
By: bAlex Rosenberg (W.W.Norton & Co, London (2012) 320pp)
Review by: Norman Bacrac
Alex Rosenberg, a Professor of Philosophy at Duke University and co-director of its Center for Philosophy of Biology, wrote the book for “Non-believers who embrace the reality-driven life.” It’s a…