The Church of Saint Thomas Paine : : A Religious History of American Secularism / / Leigh Eric Schmidt.
The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular rel...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 14 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction. The Religion of Secularism
- Chapter 1. Relics of the Secular Saint Thomas
- Chapter 2. Positivist Rites and Secular Funerals
- Chapter 3. Churches of Humanity
- Epilogue. Beyond Secular Humanism
- Notes
- Index