Outcasts and Heretics

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