Table of Contents:
- The origin of religion : the earliest beliefs
- The early written records
- Modern religion in the Near East and Rome
- Christianity, Persia, and Islam
- Modern religious thought and the birth of atheism
- A redefinition of atheism
- Atheism as a positive social force
- Atheism in the U.S.
- Atheism as the arbiter of social self-interest
- The task of atheism
- Atheism and Islam.