The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion & Science in the 19th Century

by Craig Hazen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252068289
• ISBN13: 9780252068287
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"