The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism /

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"A study in the history of science, this book explores the worldview and activism of a like-minded group of American intellectuals living in the twentieth century--from liberal Unitarians of the 1910s to Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov in the 1980s. It follows the fortunes of a few generations of m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weldon, Stephen P., 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Religion and science > United States > History > 20th century.
Science > Philosophy > History > 20th century.
Humanism, Religious > History > 20th century.
Humanism > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The scientific spirit of American humanism
  • Liberal Christianity and the frontiers of American belief (1800-1920)
  • The birth of religious humanism (1900-1920)
  • Manifesto for an age of science (1920-1933)
  • Philosophers in the pulpit (1910-1940)
  • Humanists at war (1935-1945)
  • Surviving the nuclear age (1945-1960)
  • Scientific humanism and biological man (1957-1972)
  • Inside the humanist counterculture (1956-1973)
  • Skeptics in the age of Aquarius (1974-1985)
  • The fundamentalist challenge (1968-1987)
  • Fighting creationism and fundamentalist pseudoscience (1968-1987)
  • The humanist ethos of science in modern America
  • Epilogue: Science and millennial humanism.

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