An edition of Secularism in antebellum America (2011)
Secularism in antebellum America
with reference to ghosts, Protestant subcultures, machines, and their metaphors : featuring discussions of mass media, Moby-Dick, spirituality, phrenology, anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and sex with the new motive power
By John Lardas Modern
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
331
Description:
Ghosts, railroads, Sing Sing, sex machines - these are just a few of the phenomena that appear in this pioneering account of religion and society in 19th-century America.
subjects: Protestantism, Religion, Secularism, History, Säkularismus, Religiosität, Protestantismus, Protestantism, history, United states, religion
Places: United States
Times: 19th century