Christopher Grasso

Skepticism and American Faith

From the Revolution to the Civil War

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 664
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9780190494377
• ISBN-10: 0190494379
• Artikelnr.: 49963041

Autorenporträt

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