Village Atheists.

"Leigh Eric Schmidt rebuilds the history of American secularism from the ground up, giving flesh and blood to these outspoken infidels, including itinerant lecturer Samuel Porter Putnam; rough-edged cartoonist Watson Heston; convicted blasphemer Charles B. Reynolds; and atheist sex reformer Elm...

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Author / Creator: Schmidt, Leigh Eric.
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505 0 |a The making of the village atheist -- The secular pilgrim; or, the here without the hereafter -- The cartoonist; or, the visible incivility of secularism -- The blasphemer; or, the riddle of irreligious freedom -- The obscene atheist; or, the sexual politics of infidelity -- The nonbeliever is entitled to go his own way. 
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