Description |
1 online resource (viii, 649 pages) |
Contents |
Deist Hero, Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution -- Souls Rising: The Authority of the Inner Witness, and Its Limits -- Instituting Skepticism: The Emergence of Organized Deism -- Instituting Skepticism: Contention, Endurance, and Invisibility -- Skeptical Enlightenment: An American Education in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania -- Christian Enlightenment: Eastern Cities and the Great West -- Christian Enlightenment: Faith into Practice in Marion, Missouri -- Revelation and Reason: New Englanders in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Faith in Reform: Remaking Society, Body, and Soul -- Infidels, Protestants, and Catholics: Religion and Reform in Boston -- Converting Sceptics: Infidel and Protestant Economies -- Political Hermeneutics: Nullifying the Bible and Consolidating Proslavery Christianity -- Lived Experience and the Sacred Cause: Faith, Skepticism, and Civil War |
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Cover; Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Sources; Skepticism and American Faith; Introduction; The Personal and the Political; Hiding Doubt and Silencing Skepticism; Framing the Discussion; Debate, Dialogue, and American History; PART ONE: REVOLUTIONS, 1775-1815; 1. Deist Hero, Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution; Damnnation Murray and the Religious History of the American Revolution; Deist Hero: Ethan Allen; Deist Monster: William Beadle |
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American Religious Common Sense in the New Republic2. Souls Rising: The Authority of the Inner Witness, and Its Limits; Soul Exercises and Religious Community; Religious Imposture and Skeptical Infidelity; 3. Instituting Skepticism: The Emergence of Organized Deism; Deism as Skepticism and Faith; Emergence: Deism and Universalism; 4. Instituting Skepticism: Contention, Endurance, and Invisibility; Contention: Deism and the Freemasons; Endurance: Deism and the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church; On the Invisibility of Black Skepticism; PART TWO: ENLIGHTENMENTS, 1790-1840 |
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5. Skeptical Enlightenment: An American Education in Jeffersonian PennsylvaniaFree Discussion and the Public Arena; Diffusing Enlightenment; Soul, Self, and Citizen; The Night of Superstition; 6. Christian Enlightenment: Eastern Cities and the Great West; Skeptical Maniacs, Moral Agents, Evangelical Print, and the Christian Party in Politics; The Cause and Cure of Infidelity; 7. Christian Enlightenment: Faith into Practice in Marion, Missouri; The Marion Dream; Moral Economies; 8. Revelation and Reason; Doubting Scripture; Transcending Scripture; PART THREE: REFORMS, 1820-1850 |
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9. Faith in Reform: Remaking Society, Body, and SoulFrances Wright, Infidel Politics, and the Working Class; Health Reform and the Three Confessions of William Alcott; Ernestine Rose and the Religious Roots of Patriarchy; 10. Infidels, Protestants, and Catholics: Religion and Reform in Boston; Doubt and Calvinist Orthodoxy; Universalism and Free Inquiry; Protestant Liberalism, Catholicism, and Spiritualism; 11. Converting Skeptics: Infidel and Protestant Economies; Infidel and Protestant Economies; The Prosperous Professional; The Urban Artisan; On Factory Workers and Plantation Slaves |
Summary |
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith profoundly shaped America. Although usually rendered nearly invisible, skepticism touched-and sometimes transformed-more lives than might be expected from standard accounts. This book examines Americans wrestling with faith and doubt as they tried to make sense of their world |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 11, 2018) |
Subject |
Skepticism -- United States -- 19th century
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Skepticism -- United States -- 18th century
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Religion
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Skepticism
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139928
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United States -- Church history -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93009175
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United States -- Religion -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140500
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United States -- Religion -- 18th century
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Church history
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2017058966 |
ISBN |
9780190494384 |
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0190494387 |
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9780190494391 |
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0190494395 |
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0190494379 |
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9780190494377 |
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