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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400884346
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035 _a(OCoLC)959849477
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSchmidt, Leigh Eric
_eautore
245 1 0 _aVillage Atheists :
_bHow America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation /
_cLeigh Eric Schmidt.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (360 p.) :
_b60 halftones.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction The Making of the Village Atheist --
_tChapter 1 THE Secular Pilgrim or, The Here without the Hereafter --
_tChapter 2 The Cartoonist or, The Visible Incivility of Secularism --
_tChapter 3 The Blasphemer or, The Riddle of Irreligious Freedom --
_tChapter 4 The Obscene Atheist or, The Sexual Politics of Infidelity --
_tEpilogue The Nonbeliever Is Entitled to Go His Own Way --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet, village atheists-as these godless freethinkers came to be known by the close of the nineteenth century-were also hailed for their gutsy dissent from stultifying pieties and for posing a necessary secularist challenge to majoritarian entanglements of church and state. Village Atheists explores the complex cultural terrain that unbelievers have long had to navigate in their fight to secure equal rights and liberties in American public life.Leigh Eric Schmidt rebuilds the history of American secularism from the ground up, giving flesh and blood to these outspoken infidels, including itinerant lecturer Samuel Porter Putnam; rough-edged cartoonist Watson Heston; convicted blasphemer Charles B. Reynolds; and atheist sex reformer Elmina D. Slenker. He describes their everyday confrontations with devout neighbors and evangelical ministers, their strained efforts at civility alongside their urge to ridicule and offend their Christian compatriots. Schmidt examines the multilayered world of social exclusion, legal jeopardy, yet also civic acceptance in which American atheists and secularists lived. He shows how it was only in the middle decades of the twentieth century that nonbelievers attained a measure of legal vindication, yet even then they often found themselves marginalized on the edges of a God-trusting, Bible-believing nation.Village Atheists reveals how the secularist vision for the United States proved to be anything but triumphant and age-defining for a country where faith and citizenship were-and still are-routinely interwoven.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aAtheism
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aAtheism.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Atheism.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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