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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 / John Lardas Modern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Modern, John Lardas, 1971-
- Series:
- Religion and postmodernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secularism--United States--History--19th century.
- Secularism.
- Protestantism--United States--History--19th century.
- Protestantism.
- Religion.
- History.
- United States--Religion--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 313 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- The metaphysics of secularism
- Evangelical secularism and the measure of Leviathan
- Toward a genealogy of spirituality
- A short biography of Lewis Henry Morgan with curious asides on the affect of spirituality and the emergence of anthropological comprehension
- The touch of secularism
- What do I love when I love my machine?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226533230
- 0226533239
- OCLC:
- 711050892
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