Thomas Harriot
Charles Bradlaugh
deism
William Paley
humanism
Friedrich Engels
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...with Mary lives in Marlow 1817–18 ; his heart buried in Bournemouth ; commemorated in Christchurch (Dorset), Oxford ( University College ), and London ( Westminster Abbey ). Original Poetry (with his sister) 1810 , Zastrozzi 1810 , St Irvyne 1810 , ‘The Necessity of Atheism’ 1811 , ‘The Retrospect’ 1812 , Queen Mab 1813 , Alastor, or, The Spirit of Solitude 1816 , The Revolt of Islam 1818 , ‘Ode to the West Wind’ , ‘Stanzas in a Summer Evening Churchyard’...
Russia Reference library
Igor S. Kon and I. S. Kon
Contiuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
...one divorce during their lifetime. About a third of the divorced are young couples who live together less than five years. 2. Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Factors Affecting Sexuality A. Source and Character of Religious Values Despite the 74-year effort of communism to promote atheism, 25% of the people still adhere to Russian Orthodox Christianity. While approximately 60% of Russians were nonreligious when the communist regime fell, Christianity and Orthodoxy are experiencing a mild revival. Among the non-Russian populations, Islam and Buddhism are...
Oxford Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...part in a number of hair‐raising experiments, which left Shelley's hands and clothes marked with chemicals. They walked about Shotover Hill (3 m. E), and Shelley indulged in his habit of sailing paper boats. He was sent down when he sent a copy of his pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism , to the Master and other heads of colleges and refused to admit it was his. Hogg protested and was also expelled. Shelley's death near Spezia in Italy in 1822 is commemorated in the NW corner of the quad by the Shelley Memorial, a domed structure containing the marble figure...
Ritson, Joseph Quick reference
A Dictionary of English Folklore
...he saw as their slapdash and dishonest editorial methods. These attacks were so vehemently worded and so personally abusive that, despite often being right in point of fact, he made few friends and many enemies. Combined with his other personal peculiarities—vegetarianism and atheism included—Ritson's pedantry and obsessive behaviour meant that when he died after a brief spell of ‘madness’ he was not much mourned. In hindsight, there is no doubt that his public strictures on the likes of Pinkerton and Percy forced editors of the time and later to be more...
The Korean War and Its Literary Legacies Reference library
Daniel Y. Kim
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture
...comfort to others, even though he himself can take no comfort in them. Ironically, it is the secret apostate Shin who best exemplifies the core ideals cherished by the religion he longer actually believes in—mercy, charity, and sacrifice. Even after learning the truth of Shin’s atheism, which he shares, Captain Lee too refrains from revealing it or the shattered faith of the twelve ministers. In the end, he has come to recognize that in the face of the horrors visited by war, the very human need to believe that suffering has meaning can be satisfied by...
