Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Church of Saint Thomas PaineCondition: NewSubtitle: A Religious History of American SecularismISBN-10: 0691217254EAN: 9780691217253ISBN: 9780691217253Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/02/2021Description: 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 religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737–1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.After Paine’s remains were stolen from his grave in New Rochelle, New York, and shipped to England in 1819, the reverence of his American disciples took a material turn in a long search for his relics. Paine’s birthday was always a red-letter day for these believers in democratic cosmopolitanism and philanthropic benevolence, but they expanded their program to include a broader array of rites and ceremonies, particularly funerals free of Christian supervision. They also worked to establish their own churches and congregations in which to practice their religion of secularism.All of these activities raised serious questions about the very definition of religion and whether it included nontheistic fellowships and humanistic associations—a dispute that erupted again in the second half of the twentieth century. As right-wing Christians came to see secular humanism as the most dangerous religion imaginable, small communities of religious humanists, the heirs of Paine’s followers, were swept up in new battles about religion’s public contours and secularism’s moral perils.An engrossing account of an important but little-known chapter in American history, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine reveals why the lines between religion and secularism are often much blurrier than we imagine.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Leigh Eric SchmidtGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Biography, HistoryRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Church of Saint Thomas Paine
Title: The Church of Saint Thomas Paine
Subtitle: A Religious History of American Secularism
ISBN-10: 0691217254
EAN: 9780691217253
ISBN: 9780691217253
Release Date: 11/02/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Church of Saint Thomas Paine : a Religious History of American Secularism
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), General, History, Religion, Politics & State
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, History
Item Weight: 16.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.6 in
Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
