Author: Barbara Burfoot

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Sofia, Reviews

Barbara Burfoot reviews Leaving Faith Behind

Leaving Faith Behind edited by Fiyaz Mughal and Aliyah Saleem (Darton Longman and Todd, London, 2018). Pbk. 192 pages. £9.19. This book contains six contributions by people from a Muslim background; five of them no...

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Revisiting: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

Rights of Man by Thomas Paine. First published in London, 1791. This was the second of Thomas Paine’s three 18th century bestsellers chronologically. It was written and published in England in two parts; the first...

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Revisiting: Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Barbara Burfoot revisits Common Sense by Thomas Paine. First published in Philadelphia, 10th January 1776. This is the first of Thomas Paine’s best sellers. Written at the suggestion of the printer, Benjamin Rush, it sold,...

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Thomas Paine – the Forgotten Radical

Barbara Burfoot tells the story of Paine’s involvement in the American and French Revolutions, which were the context of his three great works: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason. Thomas...

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An Enlightened Philosophy

When a book comes with recommendations from Penny Mawdsley and David Boulton, a member of the SOF Network is bound to take it seriously. Unfortunately I was unable to attend Geoff Crocker’s workshop at this...

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Humanism and Religion

Humanism —and Religion Barbara Burfoot gives a personal view on humanism. I have been an active and committed secular humanist for forty years now; active in two local humanist groups, Hampstead and Havering (Essex), and...

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