The New Measures religious revivals led by Charles Grandison Finney in New York and New England created controversies and debates over revivalism and evangelicalism in antebellum America. This dissertation examines five different antirevival discourses that emerged around the New Measures revivals between 1824 and 1850. This study argues that two major themes connect these discourses. The first is the theme of social disorder. Rather than viewing revivals as a force for order on the frontier, moderate revival leaders from the clergy believed that the New Measures brought disorder upon the participants and their communities. Secular antirevivalists worried about disorder as well. Amariah Brigham, the superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, criticized the New Measures and admitted patients suffering from "religious insanity" brought on by their experiences with revival religion. The importance of the orderly expansion of Christianity across the United States was related to the second theme. This study also argues that millennial anticipation fueled both revivalism and antirevivalism. Evangelical Protestants believed that successful revivals of religion, comprised of legitimate conversions, accelerated the arrival of the millennium. Thus, the definitions of "successful" revivals and "legitimate" conversions were hotly contested. Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists saw slavery as an impediment the millennium and opposed revivals because they contributed to indifference towards abolition. Taken together, these antirevival discourses shed new light on the opponents of antebellum religious revivals: those who resisted the conversion efforts of revival preachers, members of the clergy who were disinterested or oppositional to revivalists, and secular opponents of the revivals.

In Fighting the Battles of Life, Grace Oby Johnson reveals the possibilities of you as a believer to set yourself free from the Spirit of Witchcraft. Witchcraft is the dominant evil force that controls the world system today. Unfortunately, it seems to have some wicked hold also on the Body of Christ on earth. In her usual compelling style, Grace Oby Johnson offers profound biblical insights and time-proven principles on: Enforcing the victory of Jesus Christ. Fighting from a winning side. Delivering yourself from demonic inheritances. Exposing the activities of the Spirit of Witchcraft. Discover how to break the hold of the Spirit of Witchcraft off you and your loved ones. Pastors will also discover how to discern this wicked spirit of darkness. GRACE OBY JOHNSON is the founding pastor of the Logos Group of Churches and the president of the Logos Aflame Ministries Incorporated with her headquarters at Lekki Peninsula in Lagos State, Nigeria, West Africa. Her apostolic office can be seen in the number of churches (six) founded under her leadership. She is also the founder and president of the 70 x 7 Links International, an international body that hosts annual homecoming events for Africans in the Diaspora, and brings repentance and reconciliation to them on the issues of the past slave trade. Pastor Grace and her ministries are also involved in mission work, through which they provide schools for rural communities at the riverines of Lagos State. Her new birth experience spans over thirty-five years in the Lord. She has served the Lord in ministry for twenty-eight years. Pastor Grace is a gifted teacher of the Word of God with a strong prophetic calling. She has a strong passion in the areas of leadership development and spiritual warfare. She has authored three books, two of which are in the French language. She is an international conference speaker.

This volume presents new and established scholars writing on a range of subjects from the Dervishes of the 1890s to the terrorism and guerrilla wars of the post-1945 period.

Are you under spiritual attack? You feel discouraged. That strong temptation to sin keeps nagging you. Your prayer life is dull. You wonder whether your teenager is taking drugs. Disagreements in your church are splitting it down the middle. If you feel like you're in a losing battle with yourself, others, or circumstances, you may be the target of spiritual attack. But there's good news for you. You can fight back... and win! As an expert in the field of spiritual warfare, Tom White has equipped thousands of men and women to discern and combat demonic forces in their world. ''the Believer's Guide to Spiritual Warfare'' offers biblically sound, accurate and balanced teaching on the unseen war being waged around us.

Simply one of the best books on Spiritual Warfare available! God has called Christians to overcome the world and drive back the forces of evil and darkness at work within it. Spiritual warfare isn't just casting out demons; it's Spirit-controlled thinking and attitudes. Dean delivers a no-nonsense, both-feet-planted-on-the-ground approach to the unseen world.Includes study guide.

This Volume, that originally appeared as a Second Series to "Historic Oddities and Strange Events," is now issued under a new title which describes the peculiar nature of the majority of its contents. Several of the articles are concerned with the history of mysticism, a phase of human nature that deserves careful and close study. Mysticism is the outbreak in man of a spiritual element which cannot be ignored, cannot be wholly suppressed, and is man's noblest element when rightly directed and balanced. It is capable of regulation, but unregulated, it may become even a mischievous faculty. When the Jews are being expelled from Russia, and are regarded with bitter hostility in other parts of Eastern Europe, the article on the accusations brought against them may prove not uninstructive reading. There is political as well as religious and racial fanaticism, and the story of the "Poisoned Parsnips" illustrates the readiness with which false accusations against political enemies are made and accepted without examination. "Jean Aymon" exhibits the same unscrupulousness where religious passions are concerned. The curious episode to "The Northern Raphael" shows the craving after notoriety that characterises so much of sentimental, hysterical piety.

Satan is always at work breeding sadness and anxiety while providing obstacles that prevent souls from making spiritual progress. In this concise yet powerful book, author Dan Burke presents the venerable, time-tested wisdom of Catholic mystics to help you understand the influence of the Enemy on your mind and heart, and the tactics you need to combat him. With St. Ignatius as his guide, Burke presents here an indispensable, authoritative manual for engaging in daily battle with the Adversary—combat that is both inevitable and winnable. Burke will help you recognize the ebbs and flows of consolation and desolation, and distinguish between the voices of God and of Satan. Best of all, you'll come to see the spiritual life not as a science to be learned, but as an intuitive art to be practiced as you move with increasing success from habitual sin to sanctity. The battle for our souls is unavoidable. The saints won theirs by learning how to be spiritual warrio

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations It is commonplace to hear fanaticism described as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs, an assertion that helps to demonize convictions outside political orthodoxy. Alberto Toscano’s compelling and erudite counter-history explodes this accepted convention by exploring the critical role fanaticism played in the formation of modern politics and the liberal state. Showing how fanaticism results from a failure to formulate an adequate emancipatory politics, this illuminating history sheds new light on an idea that continues to dominate debates about faith and secularism. This expanded edition includes new material that revisits the idea of fanaticism as it operates at the limits of the liberal political imaginary, highlighting its relation to fraternal violence, political purity and the refusal of compromise, as well as its centrality to times of social crisis and international conflict.