Author : Colleen McDannell
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 1994-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253208828
"... wonderfully imaginative and provocative in its interdisciplinary approach to the study of nineteenth-century American religion and women's role within it." --Choice "... an important addition to the fields of religious studies, women's history, and American cultural history." --Journal of the American Academy of Religion "... a complete and complex portrait of the Christian home." --The Journal of American History
Author : Colleen McDannell
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File Size : 25,82 MB
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Author : Anne C. Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521478830
Anne Rose examines the relationship between American Victorian culture and the Civil War, arguing that Romanticism was at the heart of Victorian culture.
Author : George Thomas Kurian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1442244321
From the Founding Fathers through the present, Christianity has exercised powerful influence in the United States—from its role in shaping politics and social institutions to its hand in inspiring art and culture. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States outlines the myriad roles Christianity has played and continues to play. This masterful five-volume reference work includes biographies of major figures in the Christian church in the United States, influential religious documents and Supreme Court decisions, and information on theology and theologians, denominations, faith-based organizations, immigration, art—from decorative arts and film to music and literature—evangelism and crusades, the significant role of women, racial issues, civil religion, and more. The first volume opens with introductory essays that provide snapshots of Christianity in the U.S. from pre-colonial times to the present, as well as a statistical profile and a timeline of key dates and events. Entries are organized from A to Z. The final volume closes with essays exploring impressions of Christianity in the United States from other faiths and other parts of the world, as well as a select yet comprehensive bibliography. Appendices help readers locate entries by thematic section and author, and a comprehensive index further aids navigation.
Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0197623468
"This book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced the use of Scripture. It explores the rise of a strongly Protestant Bible civilization in the early United States that was then fractured by debates over slavery, contested by growing numbers of non-Protestant Americans (Catholics, Jews, agnostics), and torn apart by the Civil War. Scripture survived as a significant, though fragmented, force in the more religiously plural period from Reconstruction to the early twentieth century. Throughout, the book pays special attention to how the same Bible shone as hope for black Americans while supporting other Americans who justified white supremacy"--
Author : Dana L. Robert
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802817637
Series: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM) In this volume, leading historians of Christianity in the non-Western world examine the relationship between missionaries and nineteenth-century European colonialism, and between indigenous converts and the colonial contexts in which they lived. Forced to operate within a political framework of European expansionism that lay outside their power to control, missionaries and early converts variously attempted to co-opt certain aspects of colonialism and to change what seemed prejudicial to gospel values. These contributors are the leading historians in their fields, and the concrete historical situations that they explore show the real complexity of missionary efforts to "convert" colonialism. Contributors: J. F. Ade Ajayi Roy Bridges Richard Elphick Eleanor Jackson Daniel Jeyaraj Andrew Porter Dana L. Robert R. G. Tiedemann C. Peter Williams
Author : Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300100129
This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century's choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to the present day. Praise for the earlier edition: ?An unusual and praiseworthy book. . . . It takes a modern, almost anthropological view of history, in which worship is a part of a web of culture along with play, love, dress, and language.”?B.A. Weisberger, Washington Post Book World ?The most detailed, most polished of the works in its tradition.”?Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review ?An intellectual delight that one does not so much read as savor.”?America ?The definitive one-volume study by the leading authority.”?Christianity Today ?No one writing or thinking hereafter about America's past will be able to ignore Ahlstrom's magisterial account of the religious element.”?American Historical Review
Author : John R. Gillis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780674961883
Discusses ritual events we regard as family traditions and how they must be open to perpetual revision so we can satisfy our human needs and changing circumstances.
Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2010-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253004160
How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of this fascinating study of the interplay between material culture and Jewish thought. Ken Koltun-Fromm draws from philosophy, cultural studies, literature, psychology, film, and photography to portray the vibrancy and richness of Jewish practice in America. His analyses of Mordecai Kaplan's obsession with journal writing, Joseph Soloveitchik's urban religion, Abraham Joshua Heschel's fascination with objects in The Sabbath, and material identity in the works of Anzia Yezierska, Cynthia Ozick, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth, as well as Jewish images on the covers of Lilith magazine and in the Jazz Singer films, offer a groundbreaking approach to an understanding of modern Jewish thought and its relation to American culture.
Author : Randolph N. Jonakait
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300124637
"In this important and accessible book, a prominent expert on constitutional law examines these and other issues concerning the American jury system. Randolph N. Jonakait describes the historical and social pressures that have driven the development of the jury system; contrasts the American jury system to the legal process in other countries; reveals subtle changes in the popular view of juries; examines how the news media, movies, and books portray and even affect the system; and discusses the empirical data that show how juries actually operate and what influences their decisions.
