Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) was a New England intellectual and activist, preacher and labor organizer. Brownson is best remembered for his affiliation with the New England Transcendentalists. 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... While the states marked in red show the core of New England, the regions cultural influence may cover a greater or lesser area than shown. ... Transcendentalism was the name of a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture and philosophy which emerged in New England in the early- to mid-nineteenth century. ...

Brownson was an adopted orphan, who was raised by impoverished Rural farmers in Stockbridge, Vermont, and educated himself. He had a series of religious conversions throughout his life. In 1822 Brownson became a Presbyterian and in 1824 he became a Universalist, becoming ordained in 1826 and preaching in New York and New England. Later, rejecting Universalism, he became associated with Robert Dale Owen and Fanny Wright in New York City and organized the Workingmen's Party. Then he became a Unitarian, preaching in Walpole, New Hampshire from 1832 and in Canton, Massachusetts from 1834. Stockbridge, Vermont Stockbridge is a town located in Windsor County, Vermont. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... In comparative religion, a universalist religion is one that holds itself true for all people; it thus allows all to join, regardless of ethnicity. ... 1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Robert Dale Owen (November 7, 1801–June 24, 1877) was a longtime exponent in his adopted United States of the socialist doctrines of his father, the Welshman Robert Owen, as well as a politician in the Democratic Party. ... Frances Wright (1795-1852) was a lecturer who grew up in London and toured the United States from 1818 to 1820. ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... The Working Mens Party was the first labor union in the United States, located in Philadelphia. ... Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ... Walpole is a town located in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Canton is a town located in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

For the next decade, Brownson was a part of the Transcendentalist movement which swept through the Boston Unitarian community. He read in English Romanticism and English and French reports on German Idealist philosophy, and was most passionate about the work of Victor Cousin. In 1836, the year of Emerson's Nature, Brownson participated in the founding of the Transcendental Club; he also published a pamphlet, New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church, which combined Transcendental religious views with radical social egalitarianism, angrily criticizing the unequal social distribution of wealth as un-Christian and unprincipled. He founded a magazine, The Boston Quarterly Review, in 1838, and wrote political, intellectual, and religious essays. Transcendentalism was the name of a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture and philosophy which emerged in New England in the early- to mid-nineteenth century. ... Victor Cousin (November 28, 1792 - January 13, 1867) was a French philosopher. ... 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Transcendental Club was the group of New England intellectuals of the early-to-mid-19th century which gave rise to Transcendentalism. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1844 Brownson converted again, to Catholicism, his religion for the rest of his life; his reputation among the Transcendentalists fell, as did his opinion of them. As a Catholic, Brownson became politically conservative. He repudiated his earlier Fourierist and Owenite ideas, now criticizing socialism and utopianism as vigorously as he had once promoted them. In 1848 in a book called "A revival of Odinism, or the old Scandinavian heathenism", Orestes Brownson coined the term Odinism. In 1857 he wrote a memoir, The Convert; or, Leaves from My Experience. Jump to: navigation, search 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search This article considers Catholicism in the broadest ecclesiastical sense. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ásatrú describes a number of attempts to reconstruct the indigenous religions of Northern Europe. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

External links

• Works by Orestes Augustus Brownson at Project Gutenberg