Unbelievers: an emotional history of doubt

1. An age of suspicion: Impostors, drunkards and flat-earthers

The fool's heart

Physicians, 'naturians' and 'Nulla fidians'

From ancient to modern

2. The Reformation and the battle for credulity: Calvin and the Epicures

Between superstition and impiety

'Doubt wisely': from innocence to experience

3. The atheist's comedy: Incest, thunder and wishful thinking

Shaking off the yoke

The good atheist

4. The Puritan atheist: 'The monster of the creation'

Horrid temptations

Fear of flying

5. Seeking and losing faith: 'It's a great matter to believe there is a God'

The spiritualists' progress

Farther up and farther in

Seeking a rock to build on

6. The abolition of God: The three impostors

From then to now, I: anger

From then to now, II: anxiety

From Jesus to Hitler.