Browse our books below. You can also search for books.
GRASSO, C., Skepticism and American Faith. from the Revolution to the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2018. 664p. Hardback. An astonishing work of scholarship exploring the relationship between skepticism and faith from the late eighteenth century to the years just after the Civil War....Through a number of intellectual portraits, readers are guided from the deism of the 1780s through the growing attempts to stifle free thought and inquiry in a republic seized with all sorts of reformist fervor and rapidly evolving political and social institutions in the early to mid-nineteenth century.... All of the individuals discussed have complicated spiritual journeys that are carefully delineated....We are shown the little-discussed but important rise of skepticism among the enslaved population....Grasso moves deftly over the persistence of honest dissent, always fully sensitive to the complexity of skepticism. Robert J. Wilson III, Journal of American History |a 09/12/2020 (Publisher's information). € 40.07 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780190494377