The American Quest for the Primitive Church

The American Quest for the Primitive Church
Title The American Quest for the Primitive Church PDF eBook
Author Richard Thomas Hughes
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 280
Release 1988
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780252060298

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The dream of restoring primitive Christianity lies close to the core of the identity of some American denominations---Churches of Christ, Latter-day Saints, some Mennonites, and a variety of Holiness and Pentecostal denominations. But how can a return to ancient Christianity be sustained in a world increasingly driven by modernization? What meaning might such a vision have in the modern world? Twelve distinguished scholars explore these and related questions in this provocative book.

Inventing American Religion

Inventing American Religion
Title Inventing American Religion PDF eBook
Author Robert Wuthnow
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 257
Release 2015
Genre History
ISBN 019025890X

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Inventing American Religion traces the history of polling, examining its powerful rise in supplying information about the nation's faith, chronicling its current weaknesses, and tackling the difficult questions of how we should think about polls and surveys in American religion today.

The Primitive Church in the Modern World

The Primitive Church in the Modern World
Title The Primitive Church in the Modern World PDF eBook
Author Richard Thomas Hughes
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 256
Release 1995
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780252021947

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The Democratization of American Christianity

The Democratization of American Christianity
Title The Democratization of American Christianity PDF eBook
Author Nathan O. Hatch
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 332
Release 1991-01-23
Genre Religion
ISBN 0300159560

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A provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic "The so-called Second Great Awakening was the shaping epoch of American Protestantism, and this book is the most important study of it ever published."—James Turner, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Winner of the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic book prize, and the Albert C. Outler Prize In this provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, Nathan O. Hatch argues that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines five distinct traditions or mass movements that emerged early in the nineteenth century—the Christian movement, Methodism, the Baptist movement, the black churches, and the Mormons—showing how all offered compelling visions of individual potential and collective aspiration to the unschooled and unsophisticated.

Native Americans, The Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice

Native Americans, The Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice
Title Native Americans, The Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice PDF eBook
Author David Phillips Hansen
Publisher Chalice Press
Pages 242
Release 2017-01-03
Genre Religion
ISBN 0827225296

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The Native American drive for self-governance is the most important civil rights struggle of our time - a struggle too often covered up. In Native Americans, The Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice, David Phillips Hansen lays out the church's role in helping America heal its bleeding wounds of systemic oppression. While many believe the United States is a melting pot for all cultures, Hansen asserts the longest war in human history is the one Anglo-Christians have waged on Native Americans. Using faith as a weapon against the darkness of injustice, this book will change the way you view how we must solve the pressing problems of racism, poverty, environmental degradation, and violence, and it will remind you that faith can be the leaven of justice.

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III
Title The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III PDF eBook
Author Timothy Larsen
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 509
Release 2017-04-28
Genre Religion
ISBN 0191081159

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The five-volume Oxford History of Dissenting Protestant Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in England as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and royal supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond England -and also traces newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier English Dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent ecclesiastical organizations. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III considers the Dissenting traditions of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the United States in the nineteenth century. It provides an overview of the historiography on Dissent while making the case for seeing Dissenters in different Anglophone connections as interconnected and conscious of their genealogical connections. The nineteenth century saw the creation of a vast Anglo-world which also brought Anglophone Dissent to its apogee. Featuring contributions from a team of leading scholars, the volume illustrates that in most parts of the world the later nineteenth century was marked by a growing enthusiasm for the moral and educational activism of the state which plays against the idea of Dissent as a static, purely negative identity. This collection shows that Dissent was a political and constitutional identity, which was often only strong where a dominant Church of England existed to dissent against.

The New Black Gods

The New Black Gods
Title The New Black Gods PDF eBook
Author Edward E. Curtis IV
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 286
Release 2009-04-23
Genre Religion
ISBN 025300408X

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Taking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, a new generation of scholars offers fresh ideas for understanding the religious expressions of African Americans in the United States. Fauset's 1944 classic, Black Gods of the Metropolis, launched original methods and theories for thinking about African American religions as modern, cosmopolitan, and democratic. The essays in this collection show the diversity of African American religion in the wake of the Great Migration and consider the full field of African American religion from Pentecostalism to Black Judaism, Black Islam, and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement. As a whole, they create a dynamic, humanistic, and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American experience.