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| Introduction | |
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| The Dawn of the Golden Age of Atheism | |
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| The Critics of the Gods: Classical Greek Atheism | |
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| The Transition to the Modern Era | |
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| An Age of Revolution: The Eighteenth Century | |
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| The High Noon of Atheism | |
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| The French Revolution | |
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| Voltaire: Critic of a Corrupt Church | |
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| The American Revolution: Radical Reform without Atheism | |
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| The Rise of French Atheism | |
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| The Failed Philosophical Attempts to Defend God | |
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| The Marquis de Sade and the Origins of Erotic Atheism | |
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| The Critique of Christianity: The First Phase | |
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| Institutional Atheism? The Program of Dechristianization | |
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| The French Revolution and Atheism: An Assessment | |
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| The Intellectual Foundations: Feuerbach, Marx, and Freud | |
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| A Secular Priesthood: The Rise of the Intellectual | |
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| God as an Invention: Ludwig Feuerbach | |
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| God as an Opiate: Karl Marx | |
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| God as Illusion: Sigmund Freud | |
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| Warfare: The Natural Sciences and the Advancement of Atheism | |
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| The Origins of the Warfare of Science and Religion | |
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| Atheism as a Science: The Demand for Religious Proof | |
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| The Blind Watchmaker: Darwin and a Godless Universe | |
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| A Failure of the Religious Imagination: The Victorian Crisis of Faith | |
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| The Birth of Intentional Atheism in Britain | |
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| Nature: Affirming the Transcendent without God | |
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| Shelley and the Necessity of Atheism | |
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| The Unconvert: George Eliot | |
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| A. C. Swinburne: The Imaginative Appeal of the Profane | |
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| The Life of Jesus Movement | |
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| A Culture in Crisis: The Loss of Faith | |
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| The Death of God: The Dream of a Godless Culture | |
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| Dostoyevsky and the Revolt against God | |
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| Nietzsche and the Death of God | |
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| Camus and the Absurd Silence of God | |
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| The Death of God Theology | |
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| The Suicide of Liberal Christianity | |
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| The Execution of God: The Atheist State | |
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| Twilight | |
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| The Unexpected Resurgence of Religion | |
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| A Loss of Faith: A Personal Narrative | |
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| The Stalled Intellectual Case against God | |
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| The Suffering of the World and Atheism | |
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| The Imaginative Failure of Atheism | |
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| The Rebirth of Interest in the Spiritual | |
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| The Remarkable Case of Pentecostalism | |
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| Disconnection from the Sacred: Protestantism and Atheism | |
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| The Divorce of the Sacred and the Secular | |
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| The Imaginative Failure of Protestantism | |
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| The Atheist Challenge and the Future of Protestantism | |
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| Postmodernity: Atheism and Radical Cultural Change | |
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| The Birth of Modernity | |
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| The Postmodern Respect for Diversity | |
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| Atheism and the Challenge of Postmodernity | |
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| The Embarrassing Intolerance of Atheism | |
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| The Atheist's Revolt: Madalyn Murray O'Hair and others | |
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| Father and Son: Edmund Gosse | |
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| Daughters and Sons: Ivy Compton-Burnett | |
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| Mother and Son: Madalyn Murray O'Hair | |
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| End of Empire: The Fading Appeal of Atheism | |
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| Liberators and Oppressors: On Atheist Role Reversal | |
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| Religion and the Creation of Community | |
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| Institutional Atheism: A Failure of Vision | |
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| The Permanent Significance of Atheism | |
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| List of Works Consulted | |
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| Index | |