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02641aam a2200385 i 4500 001 46D2B46C353511EB88BA481D27ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201203010017 008 200322t20202020mduaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019052322 020 $a 1421438585 020 $a 9781421438580 035 $a (OCoLC)1149192111 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a B821 W434 2020 100 1 $a Weldon, Stephen P., $d 1962- $e author. 245 14 $a The scientific spirit of American humanism / $c Stephen P. Weldon. 264 1 $a Baltimore, Maryland : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiii, 285 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Medicine, science, and religion in historical context 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction. The scientific spirit of American humanism -- Liberal Christianity and the frontiers of American belief (1800-1920) -- The birth of religious humanism (1900-1920) -- Manifesto for an age of science (1920-1933) -- Philosophers in the pulpit (1910-1940) -- Humanists at war (1935-1945) -- Surviving the nuclear age (1945-1960) -- Scientific humanism and biological man (1957-1972) -- Inside the humanist counterculture (1956-1973) -- Skeptics in the age of Aquarius (1974-1985) -- The fundamentalist challenge (1968-1987) -- Fighting creationism and fundamentalist pseudoscience (1968-1987) -- The humanist ethos of science in modern America -- Epilogue: Science and millennial humanism. 520 $a "A study in the history of science, this book explores the worldview and activism of a like-minded group of American intellectuals living in the twentieth century--from liberal Unitarians of the 1910s to Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov in the 1980s. It follows the fortunes of a few generations of ministers, philosophers, and scientists who wanted to replace traditional religion with a modern, scientifically informed kind of humanism"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Humanism $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Humanism, Religious $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Science $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Religion and science $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 830 0 $a Medicine, science, and religion in historical context 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210304013030.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=46D2B46C353511EB88BA481D27ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search