Freethinkers A History of American Secularism

Name: Freethinkers A History of American Secularism
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ISBN: 9780805077766

ISBN-10: 0805077766

ISBN-13: 9780805077766

Edition: 2004

Authors: Susan Jacoby

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"Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion." -Los Angeles Times Book Review At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby traces more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth century's civil…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 1/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.26" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836



Introduction



Revolutionary Secularism



The Age of Reason and Unreason



Lost Connections: Anticlericalism, Abolitionism, and Feminism



The Belief and Unbelief of Abraham Lincoln



Evolution and Its Discontents



The Great Agnostic and the Golden Age of Freethought



Dawn of the Culture Wars



Unholy Trinity: Atheists, Reds, Darwinists



Onward, Christian Soldiers



The Best Years of Our Lives



Culture Wars Redux



Reason Embattled



Robert Ingersoll's Eulogy for Walt Whitman, March 30, 1892


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index