Author : John Calhoun Merrill
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
What if you could interview the greatest minds in the history of communication? You can, thanks to the authors, who have used their imaginations to help others learn about the important contributions that Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Dewey and others have made to the history of the press and communication. This book is very easy to read and very entertaining.
Author : Martin E. Marty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226508887
In this fifth volume of the Fundamentalism Project, Fundamentalisms Comprehended, the distinguished contributors return to and test the endeavor's beginning premise: that fundamentalisms in all faiths share certain "family resemblances." Several of the essays reconsider the project's original definition of fundamentalism as a reactive, absolutist, and comprehensive mode of anti-secular religious activism. The book concludes with a capstone statement by R. Scott Appleby, Emmanuel Sivan, and Gabriel Almond that builds upon the entire Fundamentalism Project. Identifying different categories of fundamentalist movements, and delineating four distinct patterns of fundamentalist behavior toward outsiders, this statement provides an explanatory framework for understanding and comparing fundamentalisms around the world.
Author : Martin E. Marty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226508862
Accounting for Fundamentalisms features treatments of fundamentalist movements, groups that often make headlines but are rarely understood, as part of the multivolume Fundamentalism Project. This book remains a standard reference source for comprehending the dynamics of fundamentalist movements around the world. Surveying fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, the contributors to Accounting for Fundamentalisms describe the organization of these movements, their leadership and recruiting techniques, and the ways in which their ideological programs and organizational structures shift over time in response to changing political and social environments.
Author : Libba Bray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0731814908
It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls - and their foray into the spiritual world - lead to?
Author : Penny Edgell
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0585189870
No single narrative or theory can describe the varieties of religious experience in North America today. The tidy dichotomies of liberal/ conservative, public/private, local/global, and renewal/secularization make little sense once specific congregations are examined closely. To understand the shifting boundaries of contemporary religious expressions, new tools are needed. Contemporary American Religion collects qualitative, on-the-ground studies of local congregations by up-and-coming religious scholars. Ethnography combined with more traditional sociological methods, help make sense of complex religious communities—from Messianic Jews to evangelical feminists, from Gospel Hour at a gay bar to exurban megachurches. This collection covers a wide span of the religious landscape, always trying to uncover new theoretical insights. Essential reading for classes in sociology of religion, contemporary American religion, and anthropology of religion.
Author : Lari A. Bishop
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Corporations
ISBN :
Author : Tina Fetner
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816649170
While gay rights are on the national agenda now, activists have spent decades fighting for their platform, seeing themselves as David against the religious righta s Goliath. At the same time, the religious right has continuously and effectively countered the endeavors of lesbian and gay activists, working to repeal many of the laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and to progress a constitutional amendment a protectinga marriage. In this accessible and grounded work, Tina Fetner uncovers a remarkably complex relationship between the two movementsa one that transcends political rivalry.
Author : John Kennedy Toole
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802197620
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
Author : James L. Peacock
Publisher : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Retired Faculty Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1989-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469635170
"Cover"--"Contents"--"ACKNOWLEDGMENTS" -- "PREFACE" -- "CHAPTER ONE: The Primitive Baptists" -- "CHAPTER TWO: Orientations" -- "CHAPTER THREE: Multiplying by Dividing: Trouble at Low Valley" -- "CHAPTER FOUR: Interlude: Doctrine, Polity, History, and Form" -- "CHAPTER FIVE: Parallel Lives" -- "CHAPTER SIX: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth" -- "CHAPTER SEVEN: Pilgrims and Paradoxes" -- "CHAPTER EIGHT: Theory and Ethnography" -- "APPENDIX A: 1983 Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association" -- "APPENDIX B: Excerpts from the London Meeting of 1689" -- "APPENDIX C: Number of Primitive Baptist Churches by State" -- "APPENDIX D: Demography of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association" -- "APPENDIX E: Membership of Churches in the Mountain District Association" -- "APPENDIX F: Characters and Their Affiliations" -- "APPENDIX G: Patterns of Reciprocity and Exclusion among the Churches" -- "APPENDIX H: Obituary of Elder Elmer Sparks" -- "APPENDIX I: Independent Protestants: Background Information" -- "NOTES" -- "INDEX" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "Q" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W" -- "Y
Author : James A. Aho
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0295801069
From their home bases in Idaho and neighboring areas of the Northwest, organizations such as the Order, the Aryan Nations Church, the Posse Comitatus, and the Golden Mean Society have drawn national attention and spread the gospel of a “constitutionally pure, Christian homeland.” For the reader who knows these groups only from a selection of inflammatory quotes and violent deeds, this compelling work presents the first disciplined exploration of the backgrounds and belief systems of the Christian patriot movement. Using information gathered from interviews and direct observation of patriot gatherings, Aho replaces the stereotype of solitary crazies from the fringes of society with more complex and disturbing realities.
