Freethinkers : a history of American secularism
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xi, 417 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-397) and index
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
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-397) and index
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
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