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American Freethinker
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Author : Kirsten Fischer
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-12-18
American Freethinker written by Kirsten Fischer and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-18 with History categories.
The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer tells the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the early United States' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech. When the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required no religious foundation. A better source for morality, he said, could be found in the natural world: the interconnected web of life that inspired compassion for all living things. Religions that deny these universal connections should be discarded, he insisted. For this, his Christian critics denounced him as a heretic whose ideas endangered the country. Although his publications and speaking tours made him one of the most infamous American freethinkers in his day, Elihu Palmer has been largely forgotten. No cache of his personal papers exists and his book has been long out of print. Yet his story merits telling, Kirsten Fischer argues, and not only for the dramatic account of a man who lost his eyesight before the age of thirty and still became a book author, newspaper editor, and itinerant public speaker. Even more intriguing is his encounter with a cosmology that envisioned the universe as interconnected, alive with sensation, and everywhere infused with a divine life force. Palmer's "heresy" tested the nation's recently proclaimed commitment to freedom of religion and of speech. In this he was not alone. Fischer reveals that Palmer engaged in person and in print with an array of freethinkers—some famous, others now obscure. The flourishing of diverse religious opinion struck some of his contemporaries as foundational to a healthy democracy while others believed that only a strong Christian faith could support democratic self-governance. This first comprehensive biography of Palmer draws on extensive archival research to tell the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the new nation's protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech—a debate that continues to resonate today.
Freethinkers
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Author : Susan Jacoby
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2005-01-07
Freethinkers written by Susan Jacoby and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-07 with Religion categories.
An 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) At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, 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. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby paints a striking portrait of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth century's civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who, allied with liberal and tolerant religious believers, have stood at the forefront of the battle for reforms opposed by reactionary forces in the past and today. Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Clarence Darrow—as well as once-famous secularists such as Robert Green Ingersoll, "the Great Agnostic"—Freethinkers restores to history generations of dedicated humanists. It is they, Jacoby shows, who have led the struggle to uphold the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system.
American Freethought 1860 1914
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Author : Sidney Warren
language : en
Publisher: Riverrun Press (New York, NY)
Release Date : 1966
American Freethought 1860 1914 written by Sidney Warren and has been published by Riverrun Press (New York, NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Free thought categories.
The Great Agnostic
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Author : Susan Jacoby
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-08
The Great Agnostic written by Susan Jacoby and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-08 with Religion categories.
“Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration” (The Boston Globe). During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as “the Great Agnostic.” The nation’s most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a power unmatched since America’s revolutionary generation. When he died in 1899, even his religious enemies acknowledged that he might have aspired to the US presidency had he been willing to mask his opposition to religion. To the question that retains its controversial power today—was the United States founded as a Christian nation?—Ingersoll answered an emphatic no. In this provocative biography, Susan Jacoby, author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition extending from Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine to the current generation of “new atheists.” Jacoby illuminates the ways in which America’s often-denigrated and forgotten secular history encompasses issues, ranging from women’s rights to evolution, as potent and divisive today as they were in Ingersoll’s time. Ingersoll emerges in this portrait as an indispensable public figure who devoted his life to that greatest secular idea of all—liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious alike. “Jacoby’s goal of elucidating the life and work of Robert Ingersoll is admirably accomplished. She offers a host of well-chosen quotations from his work, and she deftly displays the effect he had on others. For instance: after a young Eugene V. Debs heard Ingersoll talk, Debs accompanied him to the train station and then—just so he could continue the conversation—bought himself a ticket and rode all the way from Terre Haute to Cincinnati. Readers today may well find Ingersoll’s company equally entrancing.” —Jennifer Michael Hecht, The New York Times Book Review
Black Freethinkers
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Author : Christopher Cameron
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-15
Black Freethinkers written by Christopher Cameron and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with History categories.
Black Freethinkers argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought has been central to black political and intellectual life from the nineteenth century to the present. Freethought encompasses many different schools of thought, including atheism, agnosticism, and nontraditional orientations such as deism and paganism. Christopher Cameron suggests an alternative origin of nonbelief and religious skepticism in America, namely the brutality of the institution of slavery. He also traces the growth of atheism and agnosticism among African Americans in two major political and intellectual movements of the 1920s: the New Negro Renaissance and the growth of black socialism and communism. In a final chapter, he explores the critical importance of freethought among participants in the civil rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Examining a wealth of sources, including slave narratives, travel accounts, novels, poetry, memoirs, newspapers, and archival sources such as church records, sermons, and letters, the study follows the lives and contributions of well-known figures, including Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker, as well as lesser-known thinkers such as Louise Thompson Patterson, Sarah Webster Fabio, and David Cincore.
The Freethinker
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
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A Biographical Dictionary Of Freethinkers Of All Ages And Nations
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Author : Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
A Biographical Dictionary Of Freethinkers Of All Ages And Nations written by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Biography categories.
Freethought On The American Frontier
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Author : Fred Whitehead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Freethought On The American Frontier written by Fred Whitehead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
A stirring anthology that documents, in poetry, song, stories, memoirs, and essays, the breadth and scope of secularism from the early 19th century to the present. Included are pieces by the notables--Twain, Dreiser, Lindsay, Service, Sandburg, Hughes, Masters, et al.--as well as grassroots contributions. Also included are photographs of authors, historical sites, and The Truth seeker cartoons of Watson Hedges. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Popular Freethought In America 1825 1850
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Author : Albert Post
language : en
Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
Release Date : 1974
Popular Freethought In America 1825 1850 written by Albert Post and has been published by Octagon Press, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with History categories.
400 Years Of Freethought
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Author : Samuel Porter Putnam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
400 Years Of Freethought written by Samuel Porter Putnam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Free thought categories.