{"product_id":"skepticism-and-american-faith-from-the-revolution-to-the-civil-war-9780190494377","title":"Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War","description":"Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics. It produced different visions of knowledge and education in an enlightened society. It fueled social reform in an era of economic\u003cbr\u003etransformation, territorial expansion, and social change. Ultimately, as Christopher Grasso argues in this definitive work, it molded the making and eventual unmaking of American nationalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReligious skepticism has been rendered nearly invisible in American religious history, which often stresses the evangelicalism of the era or the secularization said to be happening behind people's backs, or assumes that skepticism was for intellectuals and ordinary people who stayed away from\u003cbr\u003echurch were merely indifferent. Certainly the efforts of vocal infidels or freethinkers were dwarfed by the legions conducting religious revivals, creating missions and moral reform societies, distributing Bibles and Christian tracts, and building churches across the land. Even if few Americans\u003cbr\u003epublicly challenged Christian truth claims, many more quietly doubted, and religious skepticism touched--and in some cases transformed--many individual lives. Commentators considered religious doubt to be a persistent problem, because they believed that skeptical challenges to the grounds of\u003cbr\u003efaith--the Bible, the church, and personal experience--threatened the foundations of American society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSkepticism and American Faith\u003c\/em\u003e examines the ways that Americans--ministers, merchants, and mystics; physicians, schoolteachers, and feminists; self-help writers, slaveholders, shoemakers, and soldiers--wrestled with faith and doubt as they lived their daily lives and tried to make sense of their\u003cbr\u003eworld.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Grasso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190494377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/28\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Grasso\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of history at the College of William and Mary and was the editor of the \u003cem\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eA Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut \u003c\/em\u003eand the editor of \u003cem\u003eBloody Engagements: John R. Kelso's Civil\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWar\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39959059071091,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":36.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f3f4aedd-2d85-42b8-b48d-fb7745ce9cff.jpg?v=1648740519","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/skepticism-and-american-faith-from-the-revolution-to-the-civil-war-9780190494377","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}