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Author |
: Bryan Wolfmueller |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 075864941X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780758649416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Has American Christianity Failed? by : Bryan Wolfmueller
"Wolfmueller sounds the alarm against the false teaching and dangerous practices of Christianity in America. He offers a beautiful alternative: the sweet savor of the Gospel, which brings us to to the real comfort, joy, peace, freedom, and sure hope of Christ." -- Back cover
Author |
: Nathan O. Hatch |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 1991-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300159561 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300159560 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Democratization of American Christianity by : Nathan O. Hatch
A provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic "The so-called Second Great Awakening was the shaping epoch of American Protestantism, and this book is the most important study of it ever published."—James Turner, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Winner of the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic book prize, and the Albert C. Outler Prize In this provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, Nathan O. Hatch argues that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines five distinct traditions or mass movements that emerged early in the nineteenth century—the Christian movement, Methodism, the Baptist movement, the black churches, and the Mormons—showing how all offered compelling visions of individual potential and collective aspiration to the unschooled and unsophisticated.
Author |
: Paul E. Johnson |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 1994-07-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520075943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520075948 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis African-American Christianity by : Paul E. Johnson
Eight leading scholars have joined forces to give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present. Beginning with Albert Raboteau's essay on the importance of the story of Exodus among African-American Christians and concluding with Clayborne Carson's work on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s religious development, this volume illuminates the fusion of African and Christian traditions that has so uniquely contributed to American religious development. Several common themes emerge: the critical importance of African roots, the traumatic discontinuities of slavery, the struggle for freedom within slavery and the subsequent experience of discrimination, and the remarkable creativity of African-American religious faith and practice. Together, these essays enrich our understanding of both African-American life and its part in the history of religion in America.
Author |
: Thomas Bergler |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2012-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802866844 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802866840 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Juvenilization of American Christianity by : Thomas Bergler
Pop worship music. Falling in love with Jesus. Mission trips. Wearing jeans and T-shirts to church. Spiritual searching and church hopping. Faith-based political activism. Seeker-sensitive outreach. These now-commonplace elements of American church life all began as innovative ways to reach young people, yet they have gradually become accepted as important parts of a spiritual ideal for all ages. What on earth has happened? In The Juvenilization of American Christianity Thomas Bergler traces the way in which, over seventy-five years, youth ministries have breathed new vitality into four major American church traditions -- African American, Evangelical, Mainline Protestant, and Roman Catholic. Bergler shows too how this "juvenilization" of churches has led to widespread spiritual immaturity, consumerism, and self-centeredness, popularizing a feel-good faith with neither intergenerational community nor theological literacy. Bergler s critique further offers constructive suggestions for taming juvenilization. Watch the trailer:
Author |
: Anne M. Blankenship |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2016-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469629216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469629216 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II by : Anne M. Blankenship
Anne M. Blankenship's study of Christianity in the infamous camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II yields insights both far-reaching and timely. While most Japanese Americans maintained their traditional identities as Buddhists, a sizeable minority identified as Christian, and a number of church leaders sought to minister to them in the camps. Blankenship shows how church leaders were forced to assess the ethics and pragmatism of fighting against or acquiescing to what they clearly perceived, even in the midst of a national crisis, as an unjust social system. These religious activists became acutely aware of the impact of government, as well as church, policies that targeted ordinary Americans of diverse ethnicities. Going through the doors of the camp churches and delving deeply into the religious experiences of the incarcerated and the faithful who aided them, Blankenship argues that the incarceration period introduced new social and legal approaches for Christians of all stripes to challenge the constitutionality of government policies on race and civil rights. She also shows how the camp experience nourished the roots of an Asian American liberation theology that sprouted in the sixties and seventies.
Author |
: Colleen McDannell |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 1995-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300074999 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300074994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Material Christianity by : Colleen McDannell
What can the religious objects used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans tell us about American Christianity? What is the relationship between the beliefs of the faithful and the landscapes they build? This lavishly illustrated book investigates the history and meaning of Christian material culture in America over the last 150 years. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons, Colleen McDannell examines the relationship between religion and mass consumption. She describes examples of nineteenth-century religious practice: Victorians burying their dead in cultivated cemetery parks; Protestants producing and displaying elaborate family Bibles; Catholics writing for special water from Lourdes reputed to have miraculous powers. And she looks at today's Christians: Mormons wearing sacred underclothing as a reminder of their religious promises, Catholics debating the design of tasteful churches, and Protestants manufacturing, marketing, and using a vast array of prints, clothing, figurines, jewelry, and toys that some label "Jesus junk" but that others see as a witness to their faith. McDannell claims that previous studies of American Christianity have overemphasized the written, cognitive, and ethical dimensions of religion, presenting faith as a disembodied system of beliefs. She shifts attention from the church and the theological seminary to the workplace, home, cemetery, and Sunday school, highlighting a different Christianity--one in which average Christians experience the divine, the nature of death, the power of healing, and the meaning of community through interacting with a created world of devotional images, environments, and objects.
Author |
: Todd Hartch |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2014-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199844593 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199844593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity by : Todd Hartch
Predominantly Catholic for centuries, Latin America is still largely Catholic today, but the religious continuity in the region masks great changes that have taken place in the past five decades. In fact, it would be fair to say that Latin American Christianity has been transformed definitively in the years since the Second Vatican Council. Religious change has not been obvious because its transformation has not been the sudden and massive growth of a new religion, as in Africa and Asia. It has been rather a simultaneous revitalization and fragmentation that threatened, awakened, and ultimately brought to a greater maturity a dormant and parochial Christianity. New challenges from modernity, especially in the form of Protestantism and Marxism, ultimately brought forth new life. In The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity, Todd Hartch examines the changes that have swept across Latin America in the last fifty years, and situates them in the context of the growth of Christianity in the global South.
Author |
: Joel W. Martin |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2010-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807899663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807899666 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape by : Joel W. Martin
In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas gather emerging and leading voices in the study of Native American religion to reconsider the complex and often misunderstood history of Native peoples' engagement with Christianity and with Euro-American missionaries. Surveying mission encounters from contact through the mid-nineteenth century, the volume alters and enriches our understanding of both American Christianity and indigenous religion. The essays here explore a variety of postcontact identities, including indigenous Christians, "mission friendly" non-Christians, and ex-Christians, thereby exploring the shifting world of Native-white cultural and religious exchange. Rather than questioning the authenticity of Native Christian experiences, these scholars reveal how indigenous peoples negotiated change with regard to missions, missionaries, and Christianity. This collection challenges the pervasive stereotype of Native Americans as culturally static and ill-equipped to navigate the roiling currents associated with colonialism and missionization. The contributors are Emma Anderson, Joanna Brooks, Steven W. Hackel, Tracy Neal Leavelle, Daniel Mandell, Joel W. Martin, Michael D. McNally, Mark A. Nicholas, Michelene Pesantubbee, David J. Silverman, Laura M. Stevens, Rachel Wheeler, Douglas L. Winiarski, and Hilary E. Wyss.
Author |
: Robert P. Jones |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2021-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781982122874 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1982122870 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis White Too Long by : Robert P. Jones
"WHITE TOO LONG draws on history, statistics, and memoir to urge that white Christians reckon with the racism of the past and the amnesia of the present to restore a Christian identity free of the taint of white supremacy"--
Author |
: Tony Evans |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802412661 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802412669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oneness Embraced by : Tony Evans
With the Bible as a guide and heaven as the goal, Oneness Embraced calls God's people to kingdom-focused unity. It tells us why we don't have it, what we need to get it, and what it will look like when we do. Mr. Evans weaves his own story into this word to the church.