The scientific spirit of American humanism /

The scientific spirit of American humanism /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Weldon, Stephen P., 1962- author.
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Medicine, science, and religion in historical context Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
Subject:	Humanism -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Humanism, Religious -- History -- 20th century. Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century. Religion and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Humanism Humanism, Religious Intellectual life Religion and science Science -- Philosophy United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. United States History
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12543290

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ISBN:	9781421438597 1421438593 9781421438580 1421438585
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 14, 2020).
Summary:	"A study in the history of science, this book explores the worldview and activism of a like-minded group of American intellectuals living in the twentieth century--from liberal Unitarians of the 1910s to Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov in the 1980s. It follows the fortunes of a few generations of ministers, philosophers, and scientists who wanted to replace traditional religion with a modern, scientifically informed kind of humanism"--
Other form:	Print version: Weldon, Stephen P., 1962- Scientific spirit of American humanism. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020

Table of Contents:

0. Preface and Acknowledgements
0. Introduction
1. Liberal Christianity and the Frontiers of American Belief (1800-1920)
2. The\Birth of Religious Humanism (1900-1920)
3. Manifesto for an Age of Science (1920-1933)
4. Philosophers in the Pulpit (1910-1940)
5. Humanists at War (1935-1945)
6. Surviving the Nuclear Age (1945-1960)
7. Scientific Humanism and Biological Man (1957-1972)
8. Inside the Humanist Counterculture (1956-1973)
9. Skeptics in the Age of Aquarius (1974-1985
10. The\Fundamentalist Challenge (1968-1987)
11. Fighting Creationism and Fundamentalist Pseudoscience (1968-1987)
12. The\Humanist Ethos of Science in Modern America
0. Epilogue
0. Archival Sources and Personal Papers