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Book: Atheism in Five Minutes

Chapter: 7. When Did It Become Possible to Identify as an Atheist?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.43293

Blurb:

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.

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