British Unitarians Against American Slavery, 1833-65
British Unitarians Against American Slavery, 1833-65

Author: Douglas C. Stange

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780838631683

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This study of the British Unitarians is the story of this group's thirty-year war against the master sin of the world--American slavery. Focusing on the group known as the Garrisonians, the author examines their racial views, their attitudes toward the Civil War, their relations with the American antislavery movement, and the difficult problem of the relation between religious commitment and social activism.

Further Letters of Joanna Baillie
Further Letters of Joanna Baillie

Author: Joanna Baillie

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0838641490

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The earliest letter dates from 1800, not long after Baillie had announced her authorship of the first volume of Plays on the Passions. The last dates only a few weeks before her death in 1851. --

Between Faith and Unbelief
Between Faith and Unbelief

Author: Elisabeth Hurth

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 900416166X

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This book sets out to shed light on what is specific to American Transcendentalism by comparing it with the atheistic vision of German philosophers and theologians like Ludwig Feuerbach and Arthur Schopenhauer. The study argues that atheism was part of the discursive and religious context from which Transcendentalism emerged. Tendencies toward atheism were already inherent in Transcendentalist thought. The atheist scenario came to the surface in the controversy about Emerson's "new views." Contemporary critics charged that the deity Emerson worshipped was himself. Emersonian Transcendentalism thus anticipated some of the central concerns in the works of German atheists like Feuerbach. From idealism to atheism seemed but a short step.