Atheism Books

The God-Idea of the Ancients

Eliza Burt Gamble

The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion is a religious work written by Eliza Burt Gamble, an intellectual active in the 19th and early 20th centuries. She was an advocate of the Women's Move..

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism

Franz Valery Marie Cumont

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism is a religious work written by Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont, a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these..

Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Andrew Lang

Written by Scottish poet Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) is a criticism work on close connectivity between myths and religion.Author's Preface:The original edition..

The Age of Fable

Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch was a native of Boston, Mass., where he was born in 1796. His boyhood was spent in that city, and he prepared for college in the Boston schools. He finished his scholastic training at ..

An analysis of religious belief

John Russell Amberley

If some of the advanced thinkers of the day find that Viscount Amberly—as evinced in some of the later chapters of this volume—had not in all respects evolved in the line of Free-thought so far as the..

Toleration and other essays

Voltaire

The position of Voltaire in the development of religious thought in Europe is unique. Even if his words had no application in our age, it merits the most grateful consideration. Trace to its sources t..

I don't know, do you?

Marilla M. Ricker

Ralph Washburn Chainey is only forty-two, and as great an example of thrift as Ben Franklin was. Very early in life he acquired the habit of thrift—which is the basis of all virtues. He learned early ..

A Guide to Mythology

Helen A. Clarke

There is much talk nowadays as to the authenticity of the records of savage myths. Much of this talk seems to me futile, for a myth is not a fixed entity. Each successive narrator is almost sure to va..