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A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.
Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780253346872
A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.
Author : Benjamin E. Zeller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 023153731X
The way in which religious people eat reflects not only their understanding of food and religious practice but also their conception of society and their place within it. This anthology considers theological foodways, identity foodways, negotiated foodways, and activist foodways in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. Original essays explore the role of food and eating in defining theologies and belief structures, creating personal and collective identities, establishing and challenging boundaries and borders, and helping to negotiate issues of community, religion, race, and nationality. Contributors consider food practices and beliefs among Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists, as well as members of new religious movements, Afro-Caribbean religions, interfaith families, and individuals who consider food itself a religion. They traverse a range of geographic regions, from the Southern Appalachian Mountains to North America's urban centers, and span historical periods from the colonial era to the present. These essays contain a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, emphasizing the embeddedness of food and eating practices within specific religions and the embeddedness of religion within society and culture. The volume makes an excellent resource for scholars hoping to add greater depth to their research and for instructors seeking a thematically rich, vivid, and relevant tool for the classroom.
Author : Sean McCloud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004171428
Class has always played a role in American religion. Class differences in religious life are inevitably felt by both those in the pews and those on the outside looking in. This volume starts a long overdue discussion about how class continues to matter - and perhaps even ways in which it does not - in American religion. Class is indeed important, whether one examines it through analysis of events and documents, surveys and interviews, or participant observation of religious groups. The chapters herein examine class as a reality that is both material and symbolic, individual and corporate. "Religion and Class in America" examines the myriad ways in which class continues to interact with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and group affiliations of American religion.
Author : Lawrence Sullivan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2003-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826414861
This volume contains insightful essays on significant spiritual moments in eight different Native American cultures: Absaroke/Crow, Creek/Muskogee, Lakota, Mescalero Apache Navajo, Tlingit, Yup'ik, and Yurok.
Author : Robert deV. Brunkow
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio Information Services
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Farmar Jarvis
Publisher : New-York : Published by C. Wiley & Company ... : C.S. Van Winkle, Printer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 1820
Category : Delaware language
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Farmar Jarvis
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781022505568
In this discourse delivered before the New-York Historical Society, Samuel Farmar Jarvis provides an account of the religious practices and beliefs of the Indian tribes of North America. He analyzes their creation myths, rituals, and religious symbols, and compares them with the beliefs of other cultures. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Beth Barton Schweiger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 080787597X
This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first collection published on the subject in fifteen years, Religion in the American South builds upon a new generation of scholarship to push scholarly conversation about the field to a new level of sophistication by complicating "southern religion" geographically, chronologically, and thematically and by challenging the interpretive hegemony of the "Bible belt." Contributors demonstrate the importance of religion in the South not only to American religious history but also to the history of the nation as a whole. They show that religion touched every corner of society--from the nightclub to the lynching tree, from the church sanctuary to the kitchen hearth. These essays will stimulate discussions of a wide variety of subjects, including eighteenth-century religious history, conversion narratives, religion and violence, the cultural power of prayer, the importance of women in exploiting religious contexts in innovative ways, and the interracialism of southern religious history. Contributors: Kurt O. Berends, University of Notre Dame Emily Bingham, Louisville, Kentucky Anthea D. Butler, Loyola Marymount University Paul Harvey, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Jerma Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lynn Lyerly, Boston College Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jon F. Sensbach, University of Florida Beth Barton Schweiger, University of Arkansas Daniel Woods, Ferrum College
Author : Samuel F. Jarvis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781330464908
Excerpt from A Discourse on the Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America: Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society, December 20, 1819 In surveying those portions of American history, from which I might select a subject for the present occasion, it appeared to me, that the religion of the Indian tribes of North America, had not been viewed with that largeness of observation, which is the characteristic of enlightened philosophy. Various causes may be mentioned, which have hitherto conspired to prevent, or to impede, such an examination. In the first place, the horror, proceeding from the cruelties of their warfare, forbade the calmness of investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Katherine Carté
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1469662655
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex transatlantic system that bound religious institutions to imperial politics. As Katherine Carte argues, British imperial protestantism proved remarkably effective in advancing both the interests of empire and the cause of religion until the war for American independence disrupted it. That Revolution forced a reassessment of the role of religion in public life on both sides of the Atlantic. Religious communities struggled to reorganize within and across new national borders. Religious leaders recalibrated their relationships to government. If these shifts were more pronounced in the United States than in Britain, the loss of a shared system nonetheless mattered to both nations. Sweeping and explicitly transatlantic, Religion and the American Revolution demonstrates that if religion helped set the terms through which Anglo-Americans encountered the imperial crisis and the violence of war, it likewise set the terms through which both nations could imagine the possibilities of a new world.