Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt

Leigh Eric Schmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to his most recent book, Village Atheists, he is the author of Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr and Madwoman (Basic Books, 2010).
Going Their Own Way: Village Atheists in a Changing America
 Free Inquiry Volume 37, No. 2
February / March 2017
 Leigh Eric Schmidt

America seemed unanimously religious, but freethought, that seeming nineteenth-century relic, was already in the throes of rebirth.

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