The great agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American freethought
The making of an iconoclast -- The political insider and the religious outsider -- Champion of science -- The humanistic freethinker -- Church and state -- Reason and passion -- Death and afterlife
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]
Yale University Press
c2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
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Freethinkers (United States)
History
B Freethinkers (United States) Biography B Freethinkers History United States B Ingersoll, Robert Green 1833-1899 B Ingersoll, Robert Green (1833-1899) B Freethinkers Biography United States |
| Summary: | The making of an iconoclast -- The political insider and the religious outsider -- Champion of science -- The humanistic freethinker -- Church and state -- Reason and passion -- Death and afterlife During the Gilded Age, Ingersoll raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigor unmatched since America's revolutionary generation. Jacoby restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition, as public figure who devoted his life to liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious alike |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0300137257 |