David M. Robinson
About the Author
David M. Robinson is an American literary scholar and professor emeritus at Oregon State University, where he was a distinguished professor of American literature and directed the Center for the Humanities. Educated at Harvard Divinity School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he has written extensively on Emerson, Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and American religious culture. His books include Apostle of Culture, Emerson and the Conduct of Life, and Natural Life.
Resources by David M. Robinson
“The New Epoch of Belief”: The Radical and Religious Transformation in Nineteenth-Century New England
Journal article on the Radical journal (1865–72) and the Free Religion movement in nineteenth-century New England, covering transcendentalism, Unitarian radicals, and figures such as Wasson, Frothingham, Chadwick and Abbot.
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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 on individual religious authority and scientific inquiry, its movement toward a global understanding of religion, and its engagement with social justice. Published as a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism; DOI 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195331035.013.0045.
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