Dr Patrick S. McGhee
@Patricksmcg
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📜 Historian | Writer 🪶 📚 Honorary Fellow | University of Durham 📖 ☘️ Irish Lancastrian 🌹
Joined May 2011
Excited to launch the companion website and interactive timeline for ‘The Anatomy of #Atheism in the Atlantic World, c. 1600-1800’! This is an accessible introductory platform that will expand to integrate new research, publications, and engagement.
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Wrote about a fascinating new book that explores religion, secularism, and American culture | Review: Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain With Democracy" | @FreethinkerMag |
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During a characteristically fraught scene in the third season of The White Lotus, three women on a luxury…
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My piece on atheism, death, and the need for a coalition of the living. 🪶.
Just a few thoughts on atheism, secularism, and humanism through the lens of Bruegel's 'The Triumph of Death' (c. 1562). Link in the next slide.
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Just a few thoughts on atheism, secularism, and humanism through the lens of Bruegel's 'The Triumph of Death' (c. 1562). Link in the next slide.
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How did Protestant ministers and laypeople perceive, experience, and shape the ideas of the Enlightenment and the new science? This is a superb study of the interplay between theology, religious culture, natural philosophy, and scientific knowledge in colonial New England. 📖
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Enjoying this instructive interdisciplinary study, which reasserts the body as an integral category of historical analysis and reveals the importance of biological experiences, as well as cultural and political ideas, in the formation of religious identity. 📖
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Returning to this gripping exploration of the religious revivals that took place in eighteenth-century New England. An immersive story of revelation, renewal, and radicalism that shocked the culture of Congregationalism. 📖
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RT @Patricksmcg: A short exploration of atheism, unbelief, doubt, and uncertainty in Elizabethan and Stuart England, along with some though….
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Dr Patrick S. McGhee explores the existence of doubt, uncertainty, and unbelief in England during the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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RT @antisemitism: The growing extremism of the ‘Free Palestine’ movement has been a ticking time bomb which has been waiting to explode. Th….
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RT @Israel: Last night, words became bullets. Yaron and Sarah, staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., were murdered by….
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RT @Israel: We are shocked and horrified this morning by the news of the brutal terrorist attack that claimed the lives of two of our Embas….
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A short exploration of atheism, unbelief, doubt, and uncertainty in Elizabethan and Stuart England, along with some thoughts on the possibilities and challenges of secularism today.
heritage.humanists.uk
Dr Patrick S. McGhee explores the existence of doubt, uncertainty, and unbelief in England during the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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My new article is about the challenge of renewing Irish musical culture and the necessity of repudiating antisemitism. Read more below.
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Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929). [Library of Congress].
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"It is this same sense of History that we must preserve if we are to face the unknown challenges that lie ahead." . My new article on the history of the Cold War, past, present, and future.
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RT @Patricksmcg: 🪶 My new article on the history of the American Revolution, focusing on liberty, death, and the shot heard round the world….
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