Title:
The great agnostic : Robert Ingersoll and American freethought / Susan Jacoby.
ISBN:
9780300137255
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
©2013
Physical Description:
ix, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
The making of an iconoclast -- The political insider and the religious outsider -- Champion of science -- The humanistic freethinker -- Church and state -- Reason and passion -- Death and afterlife.
Summary:
During the Gilded Age, Ingersoll raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigor unmatched since America's revolutionary generation. Jacoby restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition, as a public figure who devoted his life to liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious alike.
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
ocn785864725
Availability:
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