American Freethinker : : Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation / / Kirsten Fischer.
The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer tells the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the early United States' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech.When the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow American...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 15 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- NOTE ON STYLE
- Prologue. “A Religious Tornado”
- PART I. EXPANSIVE CHRISTIANITY
- Chapter 1. Steady Habits Upended
- Chapter 2. A Liberal Education
- Chapter 3. “All is Alive”
- Chapter 4. Freelance Universalist
- PART II. THE MAKING OF AN “INFIDEL”
- Chapter 5. Palmer’s Rubicon
- Chapter 6. Hard Fate
- Chapter 7. Fellowship
- Chapter 8. Sensitive Atoms
- PART III. LIGHTNING ROD
- Chapter 9. Specter of Infidelity
- Chapter 10. Controversy Among Freethinkers
- Chapter 11. Weaponizing Freethought
- Chapter 12. The Best Kind of Revolution
- Epilogue. Into the Future
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments