Freethinkers : a history of American secularism
Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. Susan Jacoby traces more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. --from publisher description
eBook, English, 2005
First Owl books edition View all formats and editions
Metropolitan/Owl, New York, 2005
History
1 online resource (417 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9781429934756, 1429934751
863502347
Revolutionary secularism
The age of reason and unreason
Lost connections: anticlericalism, abolitionism, and feminism
The belief and unbelief of Abraham Lincoln
Evolution and its discontents
The great agnostic and the golden age of freethought
Dawn of the culture wars
Unholy trinity: Atheists, Reds, Darwinists
Onward, Christian soldiers
The best years of our lives
Culture wars redux
Reason embattled