The Free Religion Movement
Description
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.
Table of contents 6 entries
- The Origins of Free Religion p. 1
- Intuition, Scientific Reason, and Religious Authority p. 3
- Science, Evolution, and Free Religion p. 5
- Toward Global Religion p. 6
- Free Religion and Social Justice p. 9
- Works Cited p. 11