TY - BOOK AU - Narvaez,Auréliane TI - Religion séculière et spiritualité panenthéiste PY - 2019///. N1 - 54 N2 - While historians of the early American republic have long argued that deism disappeared at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this study intends to explore the resilience of a deistic form of free thought as it appears through the spiritual belief system of the communities of the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform. Highly critical of the American society – which they considered plagued by many evils – these communities advocated a radical refashioning of the social, political and economic structures but sought above all a spiritual regeneration of man by forging a secular religion suffused with panentheistic undertones as the only path to practical happiness UR - https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2018-4-page-34?lang=fr&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -