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Leigh Eric Schmidt. Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor. I am a historian of American religion and culture; my topics of research have ranged widely: evangelical revivalism, ritual studies, consumer culture, religious liberalism, atheism, and secularism.
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 Elmina D. Slenker.
Leigh Eric Schmidt - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis. Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of the Humanities. atheism free speech religion religion and politics. Contact Information. 314-935-9345. leigh.e.schmidt@wustl.edu. Website. Media Contact. Liam Otten.
Sep 18, 2016 · In his new book, Village Atheists, the Washington University in St. Louis professor Leigh Eric Schmidt writes about the country’s early “infidels”—one of many fraught terms nonbelievers have...
Leigh Eric Schmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He joined the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics in 2011. He has held research fellowships at Stanford and Princeton and also through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American ...
Dec 7, 2010 · In Heaven's Bride, prize-winning historian Leigh Eric Schmidt offers a rich biography of this forgotten mystic, who occupied the seemingly incongruous roles of yoga priestess, suppressed sexologist, and suspected madwoman. In Schmidt's evocative telling, Craddock's story reveals the beginning of the end of Christian America, a harbinger of ...
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Leigh Eric Schmidt “Faith cometh by hearing”—so said Saint Paul, and devoted Christians from Augustine to Luther down to the present have placed particular emphasis on spiritual arts of listening.
