Carnival of Citizens
Jason Kuznicki on Feb 6th 2007 06:56 pm |
On February 28, Positive Liberty will host the Carnival of Citizens, a blog carnival dedicated to elevating public discourse on political thought and current events. The theme of this edition will be “Church and State,” and submissions should bear some relationship to questions of religion, the public sphere, and the interface between them.
The Carnival of Citizens is a creation of blog neighbor Richard Chappell of Philosophy et Cetera. You can read more about it and submit nominations here.
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January 29 was the anniversary of Paine’s birth and I’ve been catching up on some more interesting pieces in
Google Books on him: Thomas L. Nichols’ “Paine Festival Address” of 1856:
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC23888578&id=A_BbeMkAHfMC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Paine+Festival
Nichols, although usually associated with SP Andrews and the free love movement, was, like Calvin Blanchard, one of the 3rd generation American Painites. It’s interesting how they would often merge Painite radicalism with other ideas of the time, such as spiritualism. See Charles Hammond’s “Light from the Spirit World: The Pilgrimage of Thomas Paine and Others To The Seventh Circle in the Spirit World” (1852): http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC13786402&id=Drs3-seulaYC&pg=RA1-PR7&lpg=RA1-PR7&dq=thomas+paine&as_brr=1#PPP15,M1
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