CHAP 15 THE FERMENT OF REFORM AND CULTURE REVIVING RELIGION *Rationalist ideas overpowered Calvinist tradition ie Thomas Paine's book The Age of Reason 1974 declared that all churches were set up to enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit *Anticlericalism was rare however many Founding Fathers embraced the deism doctrines that relied on reason rather than religion and rejected the concept of original sin and Christ's divinity. deists believed in a Supreme being who had created the …showed first 75 words of 1362 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1362 total…boost from nationalism that followed the War of 1812 lit. started to be supported as a profession *Washington Irving: 1st American to win international recognition as literary figure. He published Knickerbocker's history of NY *James Fenimore Cooper: first American novelist, first general writer who gained world fame and make New World themes more respectable *Transcendentalist movement of the 1830's resulted from puritan theology it owed much to foreign influences including the Ger. Philosophers. *Ralph Waldo Emerson: