Paul Jerome Croce | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century. By Craig James Hazen. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xii, 194 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02512-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-252-06828-9.)

Craig James Hazen's addition to the recent surge of interest in science and religion is through a focus on three figures who departed from mainstream trends in nineteenth-century American culture. Orson Pratt was the leading intellectual and apologist among first-generation Mormons; Robert Hare was the most prominent scientist to believe in spiritualist claims; and Phineas Quimby developed the methods of Mind Cure and contributed to the rise of Christian Science. 1

Hazen derives his title from David Jaffee's 1990 William and Mary Quarterly article on the dissemination of Enlightenment reading material in New England during the Revolution and early republic periods. Hazen, a religious studies scholar, applies this "history of the book" phrase to the democratization of Enlightenment ideas in the next few generations after the 1820s. . . .

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