She writes of freethinkers, deists, atheists, agnostics and other dissenters and their. The New York Times called Freethinkers an ardent and insightful work, and the book was recognized by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times as a. Urn:oclc:845600924 Republisher_date 20140722213455 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140722151215 Scanner . Susan Jacoby reclaims American history from the religious right. OL5609162W Page_number_confidence 91.96 Pages 450 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1429934751 In a 2015 discussion, secular scholars Susan Jacoby and Rebecca Goldstein explore the question of why more women don’t profess critical skepticism of faith. The axe that Jacobyan independent scholar and author of six previous non-fiction booksis grinding throughout Freethinkers is with Christian conservatism.

Urn:lcp:freethinkershist00jaco_1:epub:686278a9-a6c8-4a37-b52e-ad98cbd0e8e5 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier freethinkershist00jaco_1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t92832j94 Invoice 11 Isbn 9780805077766Ġ805077766 Lccn 2003059294 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL18394667M Openlibrary_edition By that measure, Susan Jacoby’s Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism is a consistently valuable account of the long tradition of religious dissent in the United States. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:50:44.09112 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1611118 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1.

Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby