"Atheism is one of the most important movements in modern Western culture. For the last two hundred years, it seemed to be on the verge of eliminating religion as an outmoded and dangerous superstition. Recent years, however, have witnessed the decline of disbelief and a rise in religious devotion throughout the world. In The Twilight of Atheism, historian and theologian Alister McGrath examines what went wrong with the atheist dream and explains why religion and faith are destined to play a central role in the twenty-first century. A former atheist, McGrath traces the history of atheism from its emergence in eighteenth-century Europe as a revolutionary worldview that offered liberation from the rigidity of traditional religion and the oppression of tyrannical monarchs, to its golden age in the first half of the twentieth century. Blending historical analysis with portraits of such leading and influential atheists as Sigmund Freud and Richard Dawkins, McGrath exposes the flaws at the heart of atheism, and argues that the renewal of faith is a natural, inevitable, and necessary response to its failures. --From publisher's description."

"The twilight of atheism : the rise and fall of disbelief in the modern world"
"The twilight of atheism : the rise and fall of disbelief in the modern world"@en
"The Twilight of Atheism The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World"@en
"The twilight of atheism the rise and fall of disbelief in the modern world"
"De ondergang van het atheïsme : opkomst en verval van het ongeloof in de moderne wereld"
"Twilight of Atheism The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World"@en