Please use our postcode calculator on the product page to find out postage charges for the item. S ee product page for delivery cost and estimateĪt present we do not deliver to Northern Ireland or the Channel Islands Select your day, on orders placed before 14:00 (Mon-Fri) Nominated day or Saturday/Sunday delivery* Parcelforce normally offer a one hour delivery window via SMS or Email.ĭelivery Charges for items sold by JarroldĭPD Upgrade (upgrade to DPD express delivery) Standard delivery orders are usually sent with either Royal Mail and Parcelforce. We aim to dispatch all items which are in stock on the same working day when orders are received by 14:00. A specialist on the Reformation, he is the author of 'The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England', the prize-winning 'Being Protestant in Reformation Britain', and is the co-editor of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History. He studied History and Theology at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and is now Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University. About the AuthorĪlec Ryrie was born in London. With Christianity under contest and ethical redefinitions becoming more and more significant, Unbelievers shows that to understand how something as intuitive as belief is shaped over time, we must look to an emotional history - one with potent lessons for our still angry and anxious age. Tracing the roots of atheism, Ryrie shows that our emotional responses to the times can lead faith to wax and wane: anger at a corrupt priest or anxiety in a turbulent moment spark religious doubt as powerfully as any intellectual revolution. Their voices and feelings permeate this book in the form of diaries, letters and court records. As this history shows, the religious journey of the Western world was lived and steered not just by published philosophy and the celebrated thinkers of the day - the Machiavellis and Michel de Montaignes - but by men and women at every level of society. Unbelievers looks back to the middle ages when it seemed impossible not to subscribe to Christianity, through the crisis of the Reformation and to the powerful, challenging cultural currents of the centuries since. Rather, atheism bloomed as a belief system in its own right. In this startlingly original history, Alex Ryrie puts faith in the dock to explore how religious belief didn't just fade away. We think we know the history of faith: how the ratio of Christian believers has declined and a secular age dawned.
Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary people, the award-winning author of Protestants Alec Ryrie offers a bold new history of atheism.
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