A compelling history of atheism in American public life A
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 the
entanglements of church and state. In Village Atheists, Leigh Eric
Schmidt 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. He rebuilds the history of
American secularism from the ground up, giving flesh and blood to
these outspoken infidels. Village Atheists demonstrates that the
secularist vision for the United States proved to be anything but
triumphant in a country where faith and citizenship were-and still
are-closely interwoven.
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