The Church of Saint Thomas Paine
A Religious History of American Secularism
$52.53
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2022
Summary
The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion.
In The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737–1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691217253 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691217254 |
| Author: | Leigh Eric Schmidt |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 482g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Thought-provoking.” —Dale Singer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Fascinating.”—D. G. Hart, Wall Street Journal
”[A] lively tour through the expansionist heyday of the secular creed.”—Chris Lehmann, New Republic
“Thought-provoking.”—Dale Singer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“The Church of Saint Thomas Paine is a fascinating account of American secularism that examines how small groups of nineteenth-century freethinkers strove to establish a religion of humanity.”—Misha Hoo, Journal for the Academic Study of Religion
Leigh Eric Schmidt
Leigh Eric Schmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is on the faculty of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. His books include Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation; Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman; and Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment.
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