Cargando…
Skepticism and American faith : from the Revolution to the Civil War /
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith profoundly shaped America. Although usually rendered nearly invisible, skepticism touched-and sometimes transformed-more lives than might be expected from standard accounts. This book examines Americans wrestlin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Deist Hero, Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution
- Souls Rising: The Authority of the Inner Witness, and Its Limits
- Instituting Skepticism: The Emergence of Organized Deism
- Instituting Skepticism: Contention, Endurance, and Invisibility
- Skeptical Enlightenment: An American Education in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania
- Christian Enlightenment: Eastern Cities and the Great West
- Christian Enlightenment: Faith into Practice in Marion, Missouri
- Revelation and Reason: New Englanders in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Faith in Reform: Remaking Society, Body, and Soul
- Infidels, Protestants, and Catholics: Religion and Reform in Boston
- Converting Sceptics: Infidel and Protestant Economies
- Political Hermeneutics: Nullifying the Bible and Consolidating Proslavery Christianity
- Lived Experience and the Sacred Cause: Faith, Skepticism, and Civil War.
- Cover; Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Sources; Skepticism and American Faith; Introduction; The Personal and the Political; Hiding Doubt and Silencing Skepticism; Framing the Discussion; Debate, Dialogue, and American History; PART ONE: REVOLUTIONS, 1775-1815; 1. Deist Hero, Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution; Damnnation Murray and the Religious History of the American Revolution; Deist Hero: Ethan Allen; Deist Monster: William Beadle.
- American Religious Common Sense in the New Republic2. Souls Rising: The Authority of the Inner Witness, and Its Limits; Soul Exercises and Religious Community; Religious Imposture and Skeptical Infidelity; 3. Instituting Skepticism: The Emergence of Organized Deism; Deism as Skepticism and Faith; Emergence: Deism and Universalism; 4. Instituting Skepticism: Contention, Endurance, and Invisibility; Contention: Deism and the Freemasons; Endurance: Deism and the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church; On the Invisibility of Black Skepticism; PART TWO: ENLIGHTENMENTS, 1790-1840.
- 5. Skeptical Enlightenment: An American Education in Jeffersonian PennsylvaniaFree Discussion and the Public Arena; Diffusing Enlightenment; Soul, Self, and Citizen; The Night of Superstition; 6. Christian Enlightenment: Eastern Cities and the Great West; Skeptical Maniacs, Moral Agents, Evangelical Print, and the Christian Party in Politics; The Cause and Cure of Infidelity; 7. Christian Enlightenment: Faith into Practice in Marion, Missouri; The Marion Dream; Moral Economies; 8. Revelation and Reason; Doubting Scripture; Transcending Scripture; PART THREE: REFORMS, 1820-1850.
- 9. Faith in Reform: Remaking Society, Body, and SoulFrances Wright, Infidel Politics, and the Working Class; Health Reform and the Three Confessions of William Alcott; Ernestine Rose and the Religious Roots of Patriarchy; 10. Infidels, Protestants, and Catholics: Religion and Reform in Boston; Doubt and Calvinist Orthodoxy; Universalism and Free Inquiry; Protestant Liberalism, Catholicism, and Spiritualism; 11. Converting Skeptics: Infidel and Protestant Economies; Infidel and Protestant Economies; The Prosperous Professional; The Urban Artisan; On Factory Workers and Plantation Slaves.