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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Christian Register and Boston Observer
Author: Christian Register and Boston Observer...
Author: Christian Register and Boston Observer
Author: Christian Register and Boston Observer...
Author: Christian Register and Boston Observer
Author: The Boston Observer and Religious Intelligencer
Author: Skepticism and American Faith
Author: Christopher GrassoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190494387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics. It produced different visions of knowledge and education in an "enlightened" society. It fueled social reform in an era of economic transformation, territorial expansion, and social change. Ultimately, as Christopher Grasso argues in this definitive work, it molded the making and eventual unmaking of American nationalism. Religious skepticism has been rendered nearly invisible in American religious history, which often stresses the evangelicalism of the era or the "secularization" said to be happening behind people's backs, or assumes that skepticism was for intellectuals and ordinary people who stayed away from church were merely indifferent. Certainly the efforts of vocal "infidels" or "freethinkers" were dwarfed by the legions conducting religious revivals, creating missions and moral reform societies, distributing Bibles and Christian tracts, and building churches across the land. Even if few Americans publicly challenged Christian truth claims, many more quietly doubted, and religious skepticism touched--and in some cases transformed--many individual lives. Commentators considered religious doubt to be a persistent problem, because they believed that skeptical challenges to the grounds of faith--the Bible, the church, and personal experience--threatened the foundations of American society. Skepticism and American Faith examines the ways that Americans--ministers, merchants, and mystics; physicians, schoolteachers, and feminists; self-help writers, slaveholders, shoemakers, and soldiers--wrestled with faith and doubt as they lived their daily lives and tried to make sense of their world.
Journalism in the United States, from 1690 to 1872
Author: Frederic HudsonPublisher:
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
The Literary Digest
Author: Edward Jewitt WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872
Author: Frederic HudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description