American Freethinker : Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation /
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 American...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t NOTE ON STYLE -- |t Prologue. "A Religious Tornado" -- |t PART I. EXPANSIVE CHRISTIANITY -- |t Chapter 1. Steady Habits Upended -- |t Chapter 2. A Liberal Education -- |t Chapter 3. "All is Alive" -- |t Chapter 4. Freelance Universalist -- |t PART II. THE MAKING OF AN "INFIDEL" -- |t Chapter 5. Palmer's Rubicon -- |t Chapter 6. Hard Fate -- |t Chapter 7. Fellowship -- |t Chapter 8. Sensitive Atoms -- |t PART III. LIGHTNING ROD -- |t Chapter 9. Specter of Infidelity -- |t Chapter 10. Controversy Among Freethinkers -- |t Chapter 11. Weaponizing Freethought -- |t Chapter 12. The Best Kind of Revolution -- |t Epilogue. Into the Future -- |t Notes -- |t Index -- |t Acknowledgments |
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520 | |a 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. | ||
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