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Book SynopsisFocuses on three nineteenth-century spiritual activists who epitomized the marriage of science and religion fostered in antebellum, pre-Darwinian America by the American Enlightenment. This title opens a window to a time when science and religion, instead of seeming fundamentally at odds with each other, appeared entirely reconcilable.
Trade Review"Well argued and insightful." -- Choice "Students of intellectual and religious history will find Hazen's elegantly written, compelling interpretation a significant contribution." -- Sandra Pryor, Religious Studies Review "Hazen's argument that the village Enlightenment emboldened persons to utilize science for the purpose of constructing religious systems opens up rich new ways of thinking about persisting themes in American religious thought. This is a fine and thought-provoking work." -- Robert C. Fuller, American Historical Review "Excellent study of how some popular religious movements in the antebellum period in the nineteenth century made much of the 'scientific' character of their respective understandings of reality." -- Richard J. Mouw, Philosophia Christi ADVANCE PRAISE "Well written and informative... An important contribution to an understanding of antebellum popular science and religion." -- Klaus Hansen, author of Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
