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The Village Enlightenment in America
Author | : Craig Hazen |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2000-01-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0252068289 |
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The Village Enlightenment in America focuses on three nineteenth-century spiritual activists who epitomized the marriage of science and religion fostered in antebellum, pre-Darwinian America by the American Enlightenment. A theologian, writer, and apologist for the nascent Mormon movement, as well as an amateur scientist, Orson Pratt wrote Key to the Universe, or a New Theory of Its Mechanism, to establish a scientific base for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Robert Hare, an inventor and ardent convert to spiritualism, used his scientific expertise to lend credence to the spiritualist movement. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, generally considered the initiator of the American mind-cure movement, developed an overtly religious concept of science and used it to justify his system of theology. Pratt, Hare, and Quimby all employed a potent combination of popular science and Baconianism to legitimate their new religious ideas. Using the same terms--matter, ether, magnetic force--to account for the behavior of particles, planetary rotation, and the influence of the Holy Ghost, these agents of the Enlightenment constructed complex systems intended to demonstrate a fundamental harmony between the physical and the metaphysical. Through the lives and work of these three influential men, The Village Enlightenment in America opens a window to a time when science and religion, instead of seeming fundamentally at odds with each other, appeared entirely reconcilable.
Thomas Paine
Author | : Craig Nelson |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2007-09-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143112384 |
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A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathers Despite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine's path from his years as a London mechanic, through his emergence as the voice of revolutionary fervor on two continents, to his final days in the throes of dementia. By acquainting us as never before with this complex and combative genius, Nelson rescues a giant from obscurity-and gives us a fascinating work of history.
A Republic of Mind and Spirit
Author | : Catherine L. Albanese |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300134773 |
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain. Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona-Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a 'wild' frontier were stymied by labour struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.-Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.
The Enlightenment in America 1720 1825
Author | : Jose R. Torre |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106016689454 |
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Aims to modify the periodization for the American Enlightenment. Americans did accept an early and moderate Enlightenment characterised by the work of Locke and Newton. This collection highlights the functional nature of the Enlightenment in America.
The Populist Vision
Author | : Charles Postel |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780195384710 |
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A major reinterpretation of the Populist movement, this text argues that the Populists were modern people, rejecting the notion that Populism opposed modernity and progress.
A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders
Author | : James Delbourgo |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2006-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674022998 |
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"The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.
Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew
Author | : Ronald L. Numbers |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2007-09-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780195320374 |
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These essays address broad topics such as the popularization of scientific ideas, secularization and the development of the naturalistic worldview.
Skepticism and American Faith
Author | : Christopher Grasso |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2018-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190494391 |
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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.