Secularism in antebellum America
Subtitle: 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
Series: Religion and postmodernism; Religion and postmodernism
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780226533230
Subjects: Protestantism; Religion; Secularism; History
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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The metaphysics of secularism; title: Evangelical secularism and the measure of Leviathan; title: Toward a genealogy of spirituality; title: A short biography of Lewis Henry Morgan with curious; title: Asides on the effects of spirituality and the emergence of anthropological comprehension; title: The touch of secularism; title: What do I love when I love my machine?