Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby is the author of the forthcoming book Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion, from which this essay is adapted. She is the author of 11 other books.

Awakenings

The advent of new religions in the 1800s led to fierce debates that persist today

By Susan Jacoby | Monday December 7, 2015

A New Birth of Reason

Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic, inspired late-19th-century Americans to uphold the founders’ belief in separation of church and state

By Susan Jacoby | Friday December 7, 2012

Awakenings

By Susan Jacoby | Monday December 7, 2015

A New Birth of Reason

By Susan Jacoby | Friday December 7, 2012

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