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The Church of Saint Thomas Paine : A Religious History of American Secularism /

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular rel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schmidt, Leigh Eric (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction. The Religion of Secularism
  • Chapter 1. Relics of the Secular Saint Thomas
  • Chapter 2. Positivist Rites and Secular Funerals
  • Chapter 3. Churches of Humanity
  • Epilogue. Beyond Secular Humanism
  • Notes
  • Index