As Washington University-St. Louis religion professor Leigh Eric Schmidt points out, religion, patriotism, and lost causes are not the only things people in America commemorate. Here is a taste of his Aeon piece, “Monuments to Unbelief” Materialising secularism, giving it ritual...
Leigh Eric Schmidt
The Author's Corner with Leigh Eric Schmidt
Leigh Eric Schmidt is Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University. This interview is based on his new book, Village Atheists:Â How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation (Princeton University Press, 2016). JF:...