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Free Religion: An American Faith

Stow Persons

A historical study of free religion in the United States, first published by Yale University Press in 1947. Stow Persons traces the movement's emergence…

The Religion of Humanity

Octavius Brooks Frothingham

A systematic statement of liberal and naturalistic religion centred on humanity, moral development, and the authority of conscience. Octavius Brooks Frothingham reconsiders God, the…

The Free Religious Association: Its Twenty-Five Years and Their Meaning

William J. Potter

The official 1892 twenty-fifth-anniversary pamphlet of the Free Religious Association of America. It includes a report of the annual convention and William J. Potter's…

The Free Religion Movement

David M. Robinson

A scholarly overview of the Free Religious Association and the nineteenth-century American free religion movement. Robinson traces its Transcendentalist and Unitarian origins, its emphasis…

I.A.R.F. Quarterly and News Digest

The official quarterly journal of the International Association for Liberal Christianity and Religious Freedom.This record covers issues bearing the I.A.R.F. Quarterly and News Digest…

News Digest of the International Association for Liberal Christianity and Religious Freedom

The official quarterly news journal of the International Association for Liberal Christianity and Religious Freedom, published from The Hague. Contemporary covers and references also…

IARF Information Service

The official information service of the International Association for Liberal Christianity and Religious Freedom (later the International Association for Religious Freedom), published from The…

The Way Out of Agnosticism; or, The Philosophy of Free Religion

Francis Ellingwood Abbot

Based on forty-one lectures delivered in Harvard University's Advanced Course, Philosophy 13, in 1888, this work argues for a constructive religious liberalism grounded in…

Human Rights Education with Adivasi Women in Kerala

International Association for Religious Freedom, Religious Freedom Youth Network (RFYN)

This short documentary records an IARF human-rights education programme with Adivasi women in Kerala, India. Participants describe discrimination experienced in everyday life, including exclusion…

C. N. N. Raju on the History of IARF in India

International Association for Religious Freedom, C.N.N. Raju

C. N. N. Raju gives a concise first-person account of the growth of IARF in India. Beginning with his involvement in the Brahmo Samaj,…