Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, December 1st, 1996
Huxley introduced the term agnosticism to describe his own sceptical attitude towards religious matters. Others have used the term more generally with regard to secular knowledge. Many European commentators have seen this attitude as having developed in the Enlightenment, or during the Renaissance; others trace it back to Greek rationalism. This article suggests that explicit forms of scepticism and agnosticism (even atheism) were much more widely distributed, not only in the Near East but in India and the Far East where counter-cultural traditions often arose in opposition to the hegemonic re...
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