Donald K. Sharpes is professor emeritus at Arizona State University.

Professor Sharpes’ extensive scholarly research blends the historical with the contemporary in a most relevant work and in marvelously accessible prose. Have you been holding out for a real hero or heroine to admire or emulate? Wait no more. This is a must read for those looking to better understand past and present heroes, heroines or heretics.

• Part 1 Modern OutcastsChapter 2 Great Souls of the Modern AgeChapter 3 20th Century DissentersChapter 4 American OutsidersChapter 5 Skeptical Scientists as DissidentsChapter 6 Witches and Other PagansChapter 7 Pre-Christian DissentersPart 7 The Legacy of Religious Heresy and DissentChapter 8 Heretics in the First Christian CenturiesChapter 9 The Age of Religious DissensionChapter 10 Heresy in Medieval Islam and ChristianityChapter 11 Late Medieval Reformers and Intellectual DissentersChapter 12 Renaissance DissentersChapter 13 Two Queens, One PrincessChapter 15 Enlightenment Dissenters

Donald K. Sharpes is professor emeritus at Arizona State University.

Professor Sharpes’ extensive scholarly research blends the historical with the contemporary in a most relevant work and in marvelously accessible prose. Have you been holding out for a real hero or heroine to admire or emulate? Wait no more. This is a must read for those looking to better understand past and present heroes, heroines or heretics.

• Part 1 Modern OutcastsChapter 2 Great Souls of the Modern AgeChapter 3 20th Century DissentersChapter 4 American OutsidersChapter 5 Skeptical Scientists as DissidentsChapter 6 Witches and Other PagansChapter 7 Pre-Christian DissentersPart 7 The Legacy of Religious Heresy and DissentChapter 8 Heretics in the First Christian CenturiesChapter 9 The Age of Religious DissensionChapter 10 Heresy in Medieval Islam and ChristianityChapter 11 Late Medieval Reformers and Intellectual DissentersChapter 12 Renaissance DissentersChapter 13 Two Queens, One PrincessChapter 15 Enlightenment Dissenters

Donald K. Sharpes is professor emeritus at Arizona State University.

Professor Sharpes’ extensive scholarly research blends the historical with the contemporary in a most relevant work and in marvelously accessible prose. Have you been holding out for a real hero or heroine to admire or emulate? Wait no more. This is a must read for those looking to better understand past and present heroes, heroines or heretics.

• Part 1 Modern OutcastsChapter 2 Great Souls of the Modern AgeChapter 3 20th Century DissentersChapter 4 American OutsidersChapter 5 Skeptical Scientists as DissidentsChapter 6 Witches and Other PagansChapter 7 Pre-Christian DissentersPart 7 The Legacy of Religious Heresy and DissentChapter 8 Heretics in the First Christian CenturiesChapter 9 The Age of Religious DissensionChapter 10 Heresy in Medieval Islam and ChristianityChapter 11 Late Medieval Reformers and Intellectual DissentersChapter 12 Renaissance DissentersChapter 13 Two Queens, One PrincessChapter 15 Enlightenment Dissenters