American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation.
2020
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Title
American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Description
1 online resource (321 p.)
Series
Early American studies.
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Cover
American Freethinker
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
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
American Freethinker
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
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
Summary
In this first biography of Elihu Palmer, Kirsten Fischer depicts a once notorious freethinker who countered Christianity with the idea of an interconnected universe infused with a divine life force. Denounced as ""heretical,"" Palmer's speeches and writings shaped the contest over freedom of religion and of speech in the new United States.
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Print version: Fischer, Kirsten American Freethinker : Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2020
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English
ISBN
9780812297829 (electronic book)
0812297822 (electronic book)
0812252713
9780812252712
0812297822 (electronic book)
0812252713
9780812252712
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