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Vedanta for the West
The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States
Inbunden, 1994
614 kr
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"This important book fills a gap in our knowledge. . . . Highly recommended." —Library Journal" . . . highly recommended . . . " —Choice"With admirable clarity and remarkable brevity, Jackson surveys the history of the movement and raises . . . important issues . . . " —The Journal of American …
Gods of the Mississippi
Inbunden, 2013
846 kr
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From the colonial period to the present, the Mississippi River has impacted religious communities from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Exploring the religious landscape along the 2,530 miles of the largest river system in North America, the essays in Gods of the Mississippi make a compelling case …
Gods of the Mississippi
Häftad, 2013
301 kr
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From the colonial period to the present, the Mississippi River has impacted religious communities from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Exploring the religious landscape along the 2,530 miles of the largest river system in North America, the essays in Gods of the Mississippi make a compelling case …
Rally the Scattered Believers
Northern New England's Religious Geography
Inbunden, 2014
678 kr
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Northern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the American Revolution. Using the methods of spatial geography, Shelby M. Balik examines how migrants adapted their understanding of religious community and …
Healing the Nation
Literature, Progress, and Christian Science
Inbunden, 2017
854 kr
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Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the 20th century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and complex connections between religion and literature in American culture. Mary Baker Eddy's Church of Christ, Scientist was one of the fastest growing …
Healing the Nation
Literature, Progress, and Christian Science
Häftad, 2017
275 kr
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Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the 20th century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and complex connections between religion and literature in American culture. Mary Baker Eddy's Church of Christ, Scientist was one of the fastest growing …
Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England
The Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey
Av Abigail Abbot Bailey, Ann Taves
Häftad, 1989
191 kr
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"This is an amazing study, a memoir which provides insight into family abuse in 18th century America. . . . a significant volume which enhances our knowledge of social and religious life in New England. It is also a moving contribution to the literature of spirituality." —Review and …
Transformation of American Quakerism
Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907
Häftad, 1988
219 kr
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"Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker history in recent years." —Quaker History" . . . will stand as one of the most important works in the field." —American Historical Review
Mother's First-Born Daughters
Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion
Häftad, 1993
219 kr
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" . . . an excellent collection of writings covering the period 1774-1854 . . . mostly in print for the first time. . . . Humez provides excellent and clear introductions, emphasizing the ambiguous role of women." —Library Journal"This very fine book is a valuable contribution to Shaker studies, …
Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840–1900
Häftad, 1994
162 kr
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" . . . 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 …
New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America
Häftad, 1989
176 kr
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"Bednarowski is especially good at elucidating the theological daring of these new American religions. . . . [She] demonstrates in a very few pages how . . . theology and group adherence made the individual count, a configuration simultaneously American, un-American, and important." —Jon Butler"The …
American Sacred Space
Av David Chidester, Edward T. Linenthal
Häftad, 1995
261 kr
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In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation—and the conflict behind the creation—of sacred space in America. The essays in this volume visit places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the …
Gods of the City
Religion and the American Urban Landscape
Häftad, 1999
303 kr
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"Fascinating insights into modern urban religious practice make Orsi's collection a must-read." —Publishers Weekly"The essays provide insight into the cultural creativity, reinterpretation of worship and religious ingenuity of city people over the last 50 years." —Library Journal"At last, a major …
Religious Imagination of American Women
Häftad, 1999
176 kr
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"This book is a nuanced discussion of contemporary feminist thought in a variety of religious traditions. It draws from both academic and popular writings and offers a rich selection of books to pursue on one's own." —Re-Imagining"This remarkable book examines American women's religious thought in …
Religion and Hopi Life, Second Edition
Av John D. Loftin, Catherine L. Albanese m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
205 kr
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Religion and Hopi Life tells the story of Hopi religious life in a way that makes sense to both Hopis and outsiders. In his interpretation of Hopi religion, John D. Loftin does not subject religious meaning to secular analysis. While not the Hopi's own story, his account attempts to honor and do …
Carry a. Nation
Retelling the Life
Av Fran Grace
Häftad, 2004
322 kr
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"A needed and welcome account of Carry Nation's story . . . deserves the highest praise." —Journal of American History"Admirably interweaves early 20th-century religious culture, regional politics, the suffrage and temperance movements, and the woman who worked zealously to unite them all." …
On the Edge of the Future
Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture
Av Jeffrey J. Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck
Häftad, 2005
259 kr
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"Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather precariously over the Pacific Ocean. The Esselen Indians used the hot mineral springs here as healing baths for centuries before the European settlers …
World's Parliament of Religions
The East/West Encounter, Chicago, 1893
Häftad, 2009
261 kr
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Conceived as a magnificent display of the major religions of the world, the 1893 Parliament sought to unite "all religion against irreligion." A singular moment in the creation of a more pluralistic religious culture in America, it introduced many Americans to Eastern religions and meditative …
White Buddhist
The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott
Häftad, 2010
275 kr
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Denounced by the New York Times as an "unmitigated rascal" while simultaneously being lauded as a reincarnation of Gautama Buddha himself, Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) was friend to Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, and an indefatigable reformer and culture broker between …
Rolling Away the Stone
Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism
Häftad, 2011
301 kr
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This richly detailed study highlights the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a prominent religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. It is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy …
Spiritualism in Antebellum America
Inbunden, 1997
487 kr
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"At a time when the New Age movement is starting to make good on the Spiritualists' vision of America as a 'grand clairvoyant nation', Carroll's work raises provocative questions about the tension betwen freedom and authority in the harmonial religions of today." —Church History" . . . offers the …
Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
Inbunden, 1998
487 kr
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This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This …
Odyssey of a New Religion
The Holy Order of MANS from New Age to Orthodoxy
Inbunden, 1995
360 kr
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". . . solid scholarship. . . . [It] will not only serve as a model for those studying the New Religious Movements of the late twentieth century, but will offer help to mainline and other religious institutions who are struggling with problems of identity and change in our complex society today." …
Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives
Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland
Inbunden, 2003
459 kr
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Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families in early modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the restrictions that prevented the open expression of religious beliefs in the post-Reformation years. More can be gleaned by shifting our focus to …
Spiritual Spectacles
Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism
Inbunden, 1993
431 kr
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"Promey's book is a penetrating analysis of Shaker art. . . . The book is a gem, a true advance in Shaker studies, art history, religious history, and cultural history. Highly recommended." —Choice" . . . a very intelligent and articulate . . . treatment of a stunning set of message-images." —Art …
Encounters of the Spirit
Native Americans and European Colonial Religion
Inbunden, 2007
459 kr
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Historians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeans affected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changed by these cross-cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including their religious beliefs and practices, have also been altered amid their …
Early American Methodism
Inbunden, 1991
289 kr
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Offering a revisionist reading of American Methodism, this book goes beyond the limits of institutional history by suggesting a new and different approach to the examination of denominations. Russell E. Richey identifies within Methodism four distinct "languages" and explores the self-understanding …
Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields
Subject to Dust
Inbunden, 2008
402 kr
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Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. Callahan follows coal miners and their families from subsistence farming to …
Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism
Taking the Kingdom by Force
Inbunden, 2010
402 kr
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Early American Methodists commonly described their religious lives as great wars with sin and claimed they wrestled with God and Satan who assaulted them in terrible ways. Carefully examining a range of sources, including sermons, letters, autobiographies, journals, and hymns, Jeffrey Williams …
Shakers, Mormons, and Religious Worlds
Conflicting Visions, Contested Boundaries
Inbunden, 2010
402 kr
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Among America's more interesting new religious movements, the Shakers and the Mormons came to be thought of as separate and distinct from mainstream Protestantism. Using archives and historical materials from the 19th century, Stephen C. Taysom shows how these groups actively maintained boundaries …
