Secularism in Antebellum America

Informationen zum Autor John Lardas Modern is assistant professor of religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac! Ginsberg! and Burroughs. Klappentext Offers an account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York's penny presses! the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology! and Moby-Dick! this book challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion. Zusammenfassung Offers an account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York's penny presses! the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology! and Moby-Dick! this book challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion.

Product details

• Authors: John Lardas, John Lardas Modern, Modern John Lardas
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9780226533230
• ISBN: 978-0-226-53323-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Religion and Postmodernism; Religion & Postmodernism (Hard; Religion and Postmodernism; Religion and Postmodernism Series; Religion and Postmodernism Series (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, RELIGION / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Religious issues & debates, United States of America, USA, Religious issues and debates