The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism by Leigh Eric Schmidt

The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism

Leigh Eric Schmidt

272 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

dark informative medium-paced

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After Paine’s remains were stolen from his grave in New Rochelle, New York, and shipped to England in 1819, the reverence of his American disciples took a material turn in a long search for his relics. Paine’s birthday was always a red-letter day ...

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