The Church of Saint Thomas Paine by Leigh Eric Schmidt HARDBACK 9780691217253

Princeton University Press

The Church of Saint Thomas Paine\nby Leigh Eric Schmidt\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Leigh Eric Schmidt\nTitle: The Church of Saint Thomas Paine\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691217253\nISBN-10: 0691217254\nRRP: \u00A322.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (17371809) and how t.