Between the Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith profoundly shaped America. Although usually rendered nearly invisible, skepticism touched -- and sometimes transformed -- more lives than might be expected from standard accounts. This book examines Americans wrestling with faith and doubt as they tried to make sense of their world.
Between the Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith profoundly shaped America. Although usually rendered nearly invisible, skepticism touched -- and sometimes transformed -- more lives than might be expected from standard accounts. This book examines Americans wrestling with faith and doubt as they tried to make sense of their world.
Christopher Grasso is professor of history at the College of William and Mary. He is the former editor of the William and Mary Quarterly and the author of A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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
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