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Part VI - Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Intellectual and Artistic Currents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2021

Michael Ruse
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Stephen Bullivant
Michael Ruse
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Florida State University
Stephen Bullivant
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St Mary's University, Twickenham, London
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The Cambridge History of Atheism , pp. 583 - 760
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Print publication year: 2021

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