Freethinkers: A History of American SecularismAn authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times) |
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... leader of the nineteenth - century woman suffrage movement , was censured by her fellow suffragists and all but written out of the movement's official record after the 1895 publication of her Woman's Bible , which excoriated organized ...
... leaders was a particularly adaptable combi- nation of political and religious beliefs , constantly subject to revision in an era when modern views of nature , science , and man's place in the universe were beginning to take shape ...
... . If large numbers of Americans had not been familiar with both the language and the philosophy of the Enlightenment , the secularist rev- olutionary leaders would not have used those concepts in the 16 FREETHINKERS •
... leaders of the American Enlightenment were well aware of how inferior the American intellectual and scientific environment was to the elite established centers of learning in Europe , and they hoped to remedy this disadvantage after the ...
... leader of the Green Mountain Boys and an advocate of statehood for Vermont , rejection of the all - powerful Calvinist deity went together with rejec- tion of the divine right of kings . The Reverend Timothy Dwight , who , as president ...
Contents
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The Belief and Unbelief of Abraham Lincoln | 104 |
Evolution and Its Discontents | 124 |
The Great Agnostic and the Golden Age of Freethought | 149 |
Dawn of the Culture Wars | 186 |
Atheists Reds Darwinists | 227 |
Onward Christian Soldiers | 268 |
The Best Years of Our Lives | 292 |
Culture Wars Redux | 317 |
Reason Embattled | 348 |
Robert Ingersolls Eulogy for Walt Whitman | 367 |
Selected Bibliography | 389 |
Acknowledgments | 399 |