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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691247927
ISBN-13
9780691247922
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23058375028
Product Key Features
Book Title
Church of Saint Thomas Paine : a Religious History of American Secularism
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Atheism, Faith, History, Religion, Politics & State
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
" 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, "[A] lively tour through the expansionist heyday of the secular creed." ---Chris Lehmann, New Republic
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
211.60973
Synopsis
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 late twentieth century. After Paine's remains were stolen from his grave in New Rochelle, New York, and shipped to England in 1819, the reverence of his American disciples took a material turn in a long search for his relics. Paine's birthday was always a red-letter day for these believers in democratic cosmopolitanism and philanthropic benevolence, but they expanded their program to include a broader array of rites and ceremonies, particularly funerals free of Christian supervision. They also worked to establish their own churches and congregations in which to practice their religion of secularism. All of these activities raised serious questions about the very definition of religion and whether it included nontheistic fellowships and humanistic associations--a dispute that erupted again in the second half of the twentieth century. As right-wing Christians came to see secular humanism as the most dangerous religion imaginable, small communities of religious humanists, the heirs of Paine's followers, were swept up in new battles about religion's public contours and secularism's moral perils. An engrossing account of an important but little-known chapter in American history, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine reveals why the lines between religion and secularism are often much blurrier than we imagine., 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 late twentieth century. After Paine's remains were stolen from his grave in New Rochelle, New York, and shipped to England in 1819, the reverence of his American disciples took a material turn in a long search for his relics. Paine's birthday was always a red-letter day for these believers in democratic cosmopolitanism and philanthropic benevolence, but they expanded their program to include a broader array of rites and ceremonies, particularly funerals free of Christian supervision. They also worked to establish their own churches and congregations in which to practice their religion of secularism. All of these activities raised serious questions about the very definition of religion and whether it included nontheistic fellowships and humanistic associations--a dispute that erupted again in the second half of the twentieth century. As right-wing Christians came to see secular humanism as the most dangerous religion imaginable, small communities of religious humanists, the heirs of Paine's followers, were swept up in new battles about religion's public contours and secularism's moral perils. An engrossing account of an important but little-known chapter in American history, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine reveals why the lines between religion and secularism are often much blurrier than we imagine., 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 late twentieth century. An engrossing account of an important but little-known Chapter in American history, the book reveals why the lines between religion and secularism are often much blurrier than we imagine.
LC Classification Number
BL2760.S36 2023
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