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 Skepticism and American Faith
from the Revolution to the Civil War
Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics. It 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, as Christopher Grasso argues in this definitive work, it molded the making and eventual unmaking of American nationalism.Religious skepticism has been rendered nearly invisible in American religious history, which often stresses the evangelicalism of the era or the “secularization” said to be happening behind people’s backs, or assumes that skepticism was for intellectuals and ordinary people who stayed away from church were merely indifferent. Certainly the efforts 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, many more quietly doubted, and religious skepticism touched–and in some cases transformed–many individual lives. Commentators considered religious doubt to be a persistent problem, 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.

Skepticism and American Faith from the Revolution to the Civil War 1st Table of contents:

Part One Revolutions, 1775–1815
1. Deist Hero, Deist Monster: On Religious Common Sense in the Wake of the American Revolution
Damnnation Murray and the Religious History of the American Revolution
Deist Hero: Ethan Allen
Deist Monster: William Beadle
American Religious Common Sense in the New Republic
2. Souls Rising: The Authority of the Inner Witness, and Its Limits
Soul Exercises and Religious Community
Religious Imposture and Skeptical Infidelity
3. Instituting Skepticism: The Emergence of Organized Deism
Deism as Skepticism and Faith
Emergence: Deism and Universalism
4. Instituting Skepticism: Contention, Endurance, and Invisibility
Contention: Deism and the Freemasons
Endurance: Deism and the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church
On the Invisibility of Black Skepticism
Part Two Enlightenments, 1790–1840
5. Skeptical Enlightenment: An American Education in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania
Free Discussion and the Public Arena
Diffusing Enlightenment
Soul, Self, and Citizen
The Night of Superstition
6. Christian Enlightenment: Eastern Cities and the Great West
Skeptical Maniacs, Moral Agents, Evangelical Print, and the Christian Party in Politics
The Cause and Cure of Infidelity
7. Christian Enlightenment: Faith into Practice in Marion, Missouri
The Marion Dream
Moral Economies
8. Revelation and Reason: New Englanders in the Early Nineteenth Century
Doubting Scripture
Transcending Scripture
Part Three Reforms, 1820–1850
9. Faith in ReformRemaking Society, Body, and Soul
Frances Wright, Infidel Politics, and the Working Class
Health Reform and the Three Confessions of William Alcott
Ernestine Rose and the Religious Roots of Patriarchy
10. Infidels, Protestants, and Catholics: Religion and Reform in Boston
Doubt and Calvinist Orthodoxy
Universalism and Free Inquiry
Protestant Liberalism, Catholicism, and Spiritualism
11. Converting Skeptics: Infidel and Protestant Economies
Infidel and Protestant Economies
The Prosperous Professional
The Urban Artisan
On Factory Workers and Plantation Slaves
Part Four Sacred Causes, 1830–1865
12. Political Hermeneutics: Nullifying the Bible and Consolidating Proslavery Christianity
Religion and Politics
Presbyterians and the Southern Cross
13. Lived Experience and the Sacred Cause: Faith, Skepticism, and Civil War
Sanctifying Union
Freed from the Bonds of Superstition
The Creative Ambiguity of Civil Religion
Epilogue: Death and Politics
Death
Politics
Appendix: Grounds of Faith and Modes of Skepticism
Grounds of Faith
Modes of Skepticism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Introduction
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Part Two
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Part Three
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Part Four
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Epilogue
Appendix
References
Index
 

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