A Good Life in a World Made Good: Albert Eustace Haydon, 1880-1975

by W. Creighton Peden

This intellectual biography reveals Albert Eustace Haydon's growth from a pre-scientific Christianity to a scientific study of religions in light of evolution and pragmatic philosophy. Replacing G. B. Foster in comparative religion at the University of Chicago in 1919, Haydon became one of the most important figures in the development of humanism as a religious movement in North America, providing leadership in the writing of the first Humanist Manifesto...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820481106
• ISBN13: 9780820481104
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 312 Pages