Transcendental Heresies : Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief /

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"At a moment when the requirements of belief and unbelief were being negotiated in unexpected ways, transcendentalism allowed for a more creative approach to spiritual questions. Interrogating the movement's alleged atheistic underpinnings, David Faflik contends that transcendentalism reco...

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Main Author: Faflik, David, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Transcendentalism (New England)
Irreligion.
RELIGION > General.
Irreligion > États-Unis > Histoire.
Transcendantalisme (Philosophie americaine) > Histoire.
Irreligion > United States > History.
Transcendentalism (New England) > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Emerson and the Evolution of Belief in New England
  • Chapter 2. Henry David Thoreau, Village Atheist
  • Chapter 3. Transcendental Women "Losing" Their Religion
  • Chapter 4. Transcendentalism, Urbanism, and Unbelief
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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