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  • Heaven's Bride

    The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman

    by Leigh Eric Schmidt ...
    The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was deemed a danger to public morality for her candor about sexuality. By the end of her life Craddock, the nemesis of the notorious vice crusader Anthony Comstock, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Village Atheists

    How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation

    by Leigh Eric Schmidt ...
    A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA 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 ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Church of Saint Thomas Paine

    A Religious History of American Secularism

    by Leigh Eric Schmidt ...
    The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737–1809) and how their ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Restless Souls

    The Making of American Spirituality

    by Leigh Eric Schmidt ...
    Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism—all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. Tracing out the country’s Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the last two centuries, Restless Souls explores America’s abiding romance with spirituality as religion’s better half. Now in its second ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions

    by Andrea Greenwood, Mark W. Harris ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • American Religious Liberalism

    by Leigh E. Schmidt, Sally M. Promey ...
    Series series Religion in North America
    An enlightening look at the surprising connections between spirituality and progressive thought in the United States.Religious liberalism in America is often associated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. This book, however, draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America's religious movements.The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communities of Dissent

    A History of Alternative Religions in America

    by Stephen J. Stein ...
    Alternative religious groups have had a profound influence on American history-they have challenged the old and opened up new ways of thinking about healing, modes of meaning, religious texts and liturgies, the social and political order, and the relationships between religion and race, class, gender, and region. Virtually always, the dramatic, dynamic history of alternative religions runs ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Religion of Democracy

    Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition

    by Amy Kittelstrom ...
    A history of religion’s role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkersToday we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation’s founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Culture and Redemption

    Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

    by Tracy Fessenden ...
    Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Religious Pluralism in America

    The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal

    by Professor William R. Hutchison ...
    Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in our Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. Although Americans have taken justifiable pride in the rich array of religious faiths that help define our nation, for two centuries we have been grappling with the question of how we can coexist.In this ambitious reappraisal of American religious history, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Innocent Ecstasy, Updated Edition

    How Christianity Gave America an Ethic of Sexual Pleasure

    by Peter Gardella ...
    Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics all agree that sex should be innocent and ecstatic. For most of Western history people have not had such expectations. Innocent Ecstasy shows how Christianity led Americans to hope for so much from sex. The book explains how the sexual revolution could have occurred in a nation so deeply imbued with ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Black Church

    This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.“Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again“Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book ... Read more

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