Secularism in Antebellum America

Name: Secularism in Antebellum America
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ISBN: 9780226533230

ISBN-10: 0226533239

ISBN-13: 9780226533230

Edition: 2011

Authors: John Lardas Modern

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Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of new technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York's penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

John Lardas Modern is assistant professor of religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction: The Metaphysics Of Secularism



Evangelical Secularism And The Measure Of Leviathan



Toward A Genealogy Of Spirituality



A Short Biography Of Lewis Henry Morgan With Curious Asides On The Affect Of Spirituality And The Emergence Of Anthropological Comprehension



The Touch Of Secularism


Epilogue What Do I Love When I Love My Machine?


Index