Reviews for Isaac T. Hecker, the Diary Romantic Religion in Ante-Bellum America

The average rating for Isaac T. Hecker, the Diary Romantic Religion in Ante-Bellum America based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-13 00:00:00 Myra Moore This was a trip through time. Most of the article were written five years before my birth to five years afterwords, and it was fascinating to see where Secular Humanism was then and compare it to where it is now. One thing that was obvious in the writings of Paul Kurtz and others at the beginning of the book as they lamented how fragmented the movement was is that none of them saw the internet coming and how that would unite and breath new life into it. In high school I tried to be active in Secular Humanism and was invited to a meeting that was comprised of extremely old white men, debating philosophical issues that seemed of little relevance or pertinence to me as a high schooler and I never went back. Interestingly Kurtz listed this as one of the problems of the movement, and the book did suffer from that, especially the first section on Humanism and the last on Ethics. Yet the sections in the middle were interesting, fresh, and still very relevant today. Unfortunately as this was published in 1989, there's no real feel for how the internet transformed and revitalized the movement. But it stands as an important collection of works that documents where Secular Humanism was at the dawn of the internet age.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-03 00:00:00 George Ohlin Don't bother. This is a poorly written and edited work of little scholarship. It seems to have been a dissertation for the author's PHD. I had assumed a competency that would add to the knowledge of the antediluvian world. I was wrong.