Village Atheists : : How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation / / Leigh Eric Schmidt.

A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet, village atheists-as these godless freethinkers came to be known by the cl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 60 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction The Making of the Village Atheist
  • Chapter 1 THE Secular Pilgrim or, The Here without the Hereafter
  • Chapter 2 The Cartoonist or, The Visible Incivility of Secularism
  • Chapter 3 The Blasphemer or, The Riddle of Irreligious Freedom
  • Chapter 4 The Obscene Atheist or, The Sexual Politics of Infidelity
  • Epilogue The Nonbeliever Is Entitled to Go His Own Way
  • Notes
  • Index