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Skepticism and American Faith - from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Skepticism and American Faith - from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of
religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of
religion in politics in the Revolutionary era. It then produced
different visions of knowledge and education in an "enlightened"
society. It fueled social reform in an era of economic
transformation, territorial expansion, and social change.
Ultimately, it molded the making and eventual unmaking of American
nationalism. Yet religious skepticism has been rendered nearly
invisible by the stories usually told about American religious
history, which often stress the in-your-face evangelicalism of the
era, or the "secularization" said to be happening behind people's
backs, or assume that skepticism was for intellectuals while
ordinary people who stayed away from church were merely
indifferent. Certainly the efforts of small groups of vocal
"infidels" or "freethinkers" were dwarfed by the legions conducting
religious revivals, creating missions and moral reform societies,
distributing Bibles and Christian tracts, and building churches
across the land. Even if few Americans publicly challenged
Christian truth claims, however, many more quietly doubted, and
religious skepticism touched - and in some cases transformed - more
lives than we might expect from standard accounts. Commentators
considered religious doubt to be a persistent problem, too, not
because there were armies of skeptics marching in the streets but
because they believed that skeptical challenges to the grounds of
faith - the Bible, the church, and personal experience - threatened
the foundations of American society. Skepticism and American Faith
examines the ways that Americans - ministers, merchants, and
mystics; physicians, schoolteachers, and feminists; self-help
writers, slaveholders, shoemakers, and soldiers - wrestled with
faith and doubt as they lived their daily lives and tried to make
sense of their world.
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