Author:
Peterson, Stephen J, author.
ImprintCham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Imprint2018.
Descriptionxi, 243 pages ; 23 cm
Note:Part I. Prologue -- Introduction -- Religion, politics and journalism : modern influences in nineteenth-century America -- Part II. Gladstone as champion of religious liberty -- The politics of religion : disestablishing the Irish church -- The specter of Popery : infallibility and the Vatican decrees -- Atheism and politics : the Charles Bradlaugh imbroglio -- Part III. Gladstone and the battle for orthodox religion -- Science versus the bible : debating T.H. Huxley -- Battling aggressive infedelity : debating Robert Ingersoll -- Defending orthdoxy : reviewing Robert Elsmere and Gladstone's Works of Joseph Butler -- Part IV. Epilogue -- In memoriam : America remembers Gladstone -- Conclusion.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index.
