Electronic Archives of Liberal Religion

The purpose of this site is to assist the amateur or professional scholar in finding documents relating to liberal religious history -- particularly Unitarian, Universalist, Ethical Culture, and religious humanism.  A secondary purpose is to translate to web-readable format those key documents of liberal religious history that are not found already on the web.

18th Century

• An Act for establishing Religious Freedom [1779] Thomas Jefferson

19th Century Universalism

• A Short Essay on Universalism by Hosea Ballou c.1849

Transcendentalism

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Guide to Resources on Transcendentalism and Emerson
  • Divinity School Address - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838
  • Understanding Emerson's essay, "Self-Reliance"
  • More Emerson: Works
  • Felix Adler on Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): A Guide to Resources on Henry David Thoreau and Transcendentalism
  • Emerson on Thoreau
  • Civil Disobedience
  • More Thoreau: Works
• Theodore Parker
  • The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity

Ethical Culture

• Felix Adler: An Ethical Philosophy of Life: Chapter III: Emerson
• Felix Adler: An Ethical Philosophy of Life: Chapter V: The Ideal of the Whole and the Ethical Manifold
• Felix Adler: An Ethical Philosophy of Life: Chapter VII: The Supreme Ethical Rule
• Felix Adler: An Ethical Philosophy of Life: Chapter IX: Religious Fellowship as the Culminating Social Institution
• Felix Adler: The Ethical Significance of Easter

Humanism

• John Dietrich: Spirituality
• Humanist Manifesto I
• The Genesis of a Manifesto: Edwin Wilson's story of the Humanist Manifesto's making and reception
• The Philosophy of Humanism by Corliss Lamont
• Humanism Today online
• Humanism Today, 1997 Humanists and Education
• Humanism Today, 1998 Globalization and Humanism
• Humanism Today, 1999 Beyond Reason

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