The scientific spirit of American humanism /

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 ministe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weldon, Stephen P., 1962- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
Series:	Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
Subjects:	Humanism > United States > History > 20th century. Humanism, Religious > History > 20th century. Science > Philosophy > History > 20th century. Religion and science > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. The scientific spirit of American humanism
Liberal Christianity and the frontiers of American belief (1800-1920)
The birth of religious humanism (1900-1920)
Manifesto for an age of science (1920-1933)
Philosophers in the pulpit (1910-1940)
Humanists at war (1935-1945)
Surviving the nuclear age (1945-1960)
Scientific humanism and biological man (1957-1972)
Inside the humanist counterculture (1956-1973)
Skeptics in the age of Aquarius (1974-1985)
The fundamentalist challenge (1968-1987)
Fighting creationism and fundamentalist pseudoscience (1968-1987)
The humanist ethos of science in modern America
Epilogue: Science and millennial humanism.