Description |
1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Early American studies |
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Early American studies.
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Contents |
Prologue. "A Religious Tornado" -- 1. Steady Habits Upended -- 2. A Liberal Education -- 3. "All is Alive" -- 4. Freelance Universalist -- 5. Palmer's Rubicon -- 6. Hard Fate -- 7. Fellowship -- 8. Sensitive Atoms -- 9. Specter of Infidelity -- 10. Controversy Among Freethinkers -- 11. Weaponizing Freethought -- 12. The Best Kind of Revolution -- Epilogue : Into the Future |
Summary |
In this first biography of Elihu Palmer, Kirsten Fischer depicts a once notorious freethinker who countered Christianity with the idea of an interconnected universe infused with a divine life force. Denounced as "heretical," Palmer's speeches and writings shaped the contest over freedom of religion and of speech in the new United States |
Analysis |
A Fourth of July Oration |
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American Enlightenment |
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Deistical Society |
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First Amendment |
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Freedom of speech |
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Prospect, or View of the Modern World |
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The Principles of Nature |
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The Temple of Reason |
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Vitalism |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Kirsten Fischer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota |
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In English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Palmer, Elihu, 1764-1806.
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SUBJECT |
Palmer, Elihu, 1764-1806 fast |
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Freethinkers -- United States
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Deism -- United States
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Freedom of religion -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Freedom of religion -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).
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Deism
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Freedom of religion
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Freethinkers
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United States
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Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780812297829 |
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0812297822 |
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