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Outcasts and heretics : profiles in independent thought and courage

Outcasts and Heretics is a series of profiles focusing on leaders of independent thought and courage. Spanning from middle age religious heretics to modern whistle blowers, this volume maps common threads between independent thought and proven courage.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, ©2007
xiii, 352 pages ; 23 cm
9780739123171, 9780739123188, 0739123173, 0739123181
156994447
Modern outcasts
Great souls of the modern age
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1942)
Martin Luther King (1929-1968)
Bantu Steven Kiko (1946-1977)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969- )
Twentieth century dissenters
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
Kaj Munk (1898-1945)
World War II German army deserters
Edith Stein (1891-1942)
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- )
Authors and outsiders
American outsiders
Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Cochise (c.1815-1874)
Red Cloud (1882-1909)
Skeptical scientists as dissidents
What Americans believe
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Natural selection over time
Evidence about human origins
Intelligent design
Witches and other pagans
Alice Kyteler, medieval Irish witch
Witches among the Puritans
Mary Dyer (1611-1660)
Modern wiccas
The legacy of religious heresy and dissent
Pre-Christian dissenters
Paleolithic beliefs
Greek mystery religions
Sources of the literary tradition
Anaxagoras
Protagoras
Empedocles
Socrates
Chinese ideologies
Cicero (106-43 BCE) : On the nature of the gods
The religion of the Romans
Heretics in the first Christian centuries
First century Rome
Apollonius of Tyana, contemporary of Jesus
Marcion, the heretic
Tertullian and the montanists
The proliferation of heresies
Cyprian of Carthage
The age of religious dissension
Emperor Julian
Nestorius
Pelagius : original sin and grace
Boethius
Heresy in medieval Islam and Christianity
Islam and the infidels
Islamic dissidents
The crusades
The rise of the military orders and the fall of the Templars
The crusade against heretics and the Cathars
Peter Abelard
Roger Bacon, alchemist
Heretics condemned
Late medieval reformers
John Wycliffe
John Hus
Cecco d'Ascoli and astrology
Marcilius (Marsiglio) of Padua
Saint Joan (1412-1431)
William Tyndale
Girolamo Savonarola
Renaissance dissenters
Giordano Bruno
Thomas More : a man for all seasons
Johannes Kepler
Rene Descartes
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
Voltaire
Two queens, one princess
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Queen Christina of Sweden
Elisabeth von der Pfalz, princess Palatine
Enlightenment dissenters
Denis Diderot
Philip-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet