The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism

by Leigh Eric Schmidt

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The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion In 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691217254

ISBN13:9780691217253

Release Date:November 2021

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"

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History Religion Religion & Spirituality

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