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

by Leigh Eric Schmidt

Book Overview

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"