Skepticism and American Faith

Skepticism and American Faith

from the Revolution to the Civil War

Oxford University Press Inc

07/2018

664

Dura

Inglês

9780190494377

15 a 20 dias

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Note on Sources Introduction I: Revolutions, 1775-1815 1. Deist Hero, Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution 2. Souls Rising: The Authority of the Inner Witness, and Its Limits 3. Instituting Skepticism: The Emergence of Organized Deism 4. Instituting Skepticism: Contention, Endurance, and Invisibility II. Enlightenments, 1790-1845 5. Skeptical Enlightenment: An American Education in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania 6. Christian Enlightenment: Eastern Cities and the Great West 7. Christian Enlightenment: Faith into Practice in Marion, Missouri 8. Revelation and Reason: New Englanders in the Early Nineteenth Century III. Reforms, 1820-1850 9. Faith in Reform: Remaking Society, Body, and Soul 10. Infidels, Protestants, and Catholics: Religion and Reform in Boston 11. Converting Skeptics: Infidel and Protestant Economies IV. Sacred Causes, 1830-1865 12. Political Hermeneutics: Nullifying the Bible and Consolidating Proslavery Christianity 13. Lived Experience and the Sacred Cause: Faith, Skepticism, and Civil War Epilogue: Death and Politics Appendix: Grounds of Faith and Modes of Skepticism Acknowledgments Notes References Index