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The great agnostic : Robert Ingersoll and American freethought

text The great agnostic : Robert Ingersoll and American freethought

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 plac... Read more
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 -- Afterword : a letter to the "new" atheists.

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ix, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher
Yale University Press 2013

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 211.7092 JAC in Adult Non-fiction Available

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