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Author |
: Maurice Claude Burrell |
Publisher |
: Morehouse Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1853111163 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781853111167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The 'Christian' Fringe by : Maurice Claude Burrell
This is an honest and accurate portrayal of the beliefs and practices of those who belong to seven of the fringe alternatives to mainstream Christianity. The author covers Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, The Family (The Children of God), The Unification Church, Christian Scientists, and the New Age Movement. In each case Canon Burrell summarises their beliefs and contrasts them with those of mainstream Christians - eg: in relation to the Bible, God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, Salvation, God's Kingdom, etc. In a final chapter the author provides a positive Christian Response, in which he offers guide lines for those who come into contact, perhaps through their own family, with members of these seven religious alternatives to mainstream Christianity.
Author |
: Adam Morris |
Publisher |
: Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2019-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781631492143 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1631492144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation by : Adam Morris
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about “cult” leaders and their messianic power. Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. After years of studying these emblematic figures, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history. As Morris demonstrates, these charismatic, if flawed, would-be prophets sought to expose and ameliorate deep social ills—such as income inequality, gender conformity, and racial injustice. Provocative and long overdue, this is the story of those who tried to point the way toward an impossible “American Dream”: men and women who momentarily captured the imagination of a nation always searching for salvation.
Author |
: W.A. Van Leen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1239791148 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Problem of Extreme Christian Fringe Groups by : W.A. Van Leen
Author |
: W. Adrian Van Leen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:646270850 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Problem of Extreme Christian Fringe Groups by : W. Adrian Van Leen
Author |
: Sean McCloud |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2005-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807863664 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807863661 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making the American Religious Fringe by : Sean McCloud
In an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news and special interest magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to analyze how and why mass-market magazines depicted religions as "mainstream" or "fringe" in the post-World War II United States. McCloud argues that in assuming an American mainstream that was white, middle class, and religiously liberal, journalists in the largest magazines, under the guise of objective reporting, offered a spiritual apologetics for the dominant social order. McCloud analyzes articles on a wide range of religious movements from the 1950s through the early 1990s, including Pentecostalism, the Nation of Islam, California cults, the Jesus movement, South Asian gurus, and occult spirituality. He shows that, in portraying certain beliefs as "fringe," magazines evoked long-standing debates in American religious history about emotional versus rational religion, exotic versus familiar spirituality, and normal versus abnormal levels of piety. He also traces the shifting line between mainstream and fringe, showing how such boundary shifts coincided with larger changes in society, culture, and the magazine industry. McCloud's astute analysis helps us understand both broad conceptions of religion in the United States and the role of mass media in American society.
Author |
: Jessica N. Turner |
Publisher |
: Revell |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2015-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441246165 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441246169 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fringe Hours by : Jessica N. Turner
Every woman has had this experience: you get to the end of the day and realize you did nothing for you. And if you go days, weeks, or even months in this cycle, you begin to feel like you have lost a bit of yourself. While life is busy with a litany of must-dos--work, parenting, keeping house, grocery shopping, laundry and on and on--women do not have to push their own needs aside. Yet this is often what happens. There's just no time, right? Wrong. In this practical and liberating book, Jessica Turner empowers women to take back pockets of time they already have in their day in order to practice self-care and do the things they love. Turner uses her own experiences and those of women across the country to teach readers how to balance their many responsibilities while still taking time to invest in themselves. She also addresses barriers to this lifestyle, such as comparison and guilt, and demonstrates how eliminating these feelings and making changes to one's schedule will make the reader a better wife, mother, and friend. Perfect for any woman who is doing everything for everyone--except herself--The Fringe Hours is ideal for both individuals and small group use.
Author |
: Kristin Kobes Du Mez |
Publisher |
: Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2020-06-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781631495748 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1631495747 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by : Kristin Kobes Du Mez
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism—or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.” As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex—and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical culture is teeming with muscular heroes—mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Trump in fact represented the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values: patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans.
Author |
: Richard G. Kyle |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 474 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015026953003 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Religious Fringe by : Richard G. Kyle
America--the land of the free--has from its earliest days spawned and nurtured a wide range of new or alternative religious. Often veering from traditional roots or seeking to find their way back toward the center, these religious fringe groups have a fascinating story long overlooked in many treatments of American history. Richard Kyle here traces the origins and development of alternative religions, showing their influence on American culture.
Author |
: Julie Ingersoll |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199913787 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199913781 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building God's Kingdom by : Julie Ingersoll
In this fascinating book, Julie Ingersoll draws on years of research, Reconstructionist publications, and interviews with believers to paint the most complete portrait of the Christian Reconstructionist movement yet published.
Author |
: Katherine Stewart |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2020-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781635573459 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1635573459 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Power Worshippers by : Katherine Stewart
The inspiration for the documentary God & Country For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Right's rise to political power. For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America's religious nationalists aren't just fighting a culture war, they are waging a political war on the norms and institutions of American democracy. Stewart pulls back the curtain on the inner workings and leading personalities of a movement that has turned religion into a tool for domination. She exposes a dense network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and pastoral organizations embedded in a rapidly expanding community of international alliances and united not by any central command but by a shared, anti-democratic vision and a common will to power. She follows the money that fuels this movement, tracing much of it to a cadre of super-wealthy, ultraconservative donors and family foundations. She shows that today's Christian nationalism is the fruit of a longstanding antidemocratic, reactionary strain of American thought that draws on some of the most troubling episodes in America's past. It forms common cause with a globe-spanning movement that seeks to destroy liberal democracy and replace it with nationalist, theocratic and autocratic forms of government around the world. Religious nationalism is far more organized and better funded than most people realize. It seeks to control all aspects of government and society. Its successes have been stunning, and its influence now extends to every aspect of American life, from the White House to state capitols, from our schools to our hospitals. The Power Worshippers is a brilliantly reported book of warning and a wake-up call. Stewart's probing examination demands that Christian nationalism be taken seriously as a significant threat to the American republic and our democratic freedoms.