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Christianity and Transforming States

Author : David Emmanuel Singh
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 150649336X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Transforming States written by David Emmanuel Singh and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines what it means to live as a Christian minority: both in non-Christian societies and in societies where other forms of Christianity are predominant. Many Christians live in states where other religions have historically influenced national identities, or where secularism defines communal expectations. At the same time, some Christian minorities live among other, more prevalent Christian traditions and often experience marginalization as a result. This volume provides insight into the experiences of the many contemporary Christian communities throughout the world and how they are responding to their varied societal circumstances.

Christianity and the Transformation of the Book

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037863
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the Transformation of the Book written by Anthony Grafton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even farther, creating new research tools, new forms of history and polemic, and a new kind of library to support both research and book production. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book combines broad-gauged synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing scholarly inquiry and collaboration among the Christians of Caesarea, on the coast of Roman Palestine. The book explores the dialectical relationship between intellectual history and the history of the book, even as it expands our understanding of early Christian scholarship. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book attends to the social, religious, intellectual, and institutional contexts within which Origen and Eusebius worked, as well as the details of their scholarly practices--practices that, the authors argue, continued to define major sectors of Christian learning for almost two millennia and are, in many ways, still with us today.,

Transforming

Author : Austen Hartke
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611648521
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Transforming written by Austen Hartke and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached the transgender tipping point, suggesting that transgender issues would become the next civil rights frontier. Years later, many peopleeven many LGBTQ alliesstill lack understanding of gender identity and the transgender experience. Into this void, Austen Hartke offers a biblically based, educational, and affirming resource to shed light and wisdom on this modern gender landscape. Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians provides access into an underrepresented and misunderstood community and will change the way readers think about transgender people, faith, and the future of Christianity. By introducing transgender issues and language and providing stories of both biblical characters and real-life narratives from transgender Christians living today, Hartke helps readers visualize a more inclusive Christianity, equipping them with the confidence and tools to change both the church and the world.

The Integration of Church & State

Author : Nolan Lewallen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781630505424
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Integration of Church & State written by Nolan Lewallen and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WE MUST PUT GOD BACK IN OUR GOVERNMENT! The Integration of Church and State begins in Chapter One debunking one of the biggest lies of our generation, the oft-repeated phrase "The Separation of Church and State." The remaining chapters look at many crucial political issues that our country is facing today through the lens of God's Word. --From the Introduction "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." Psalm 33:12 Nolan Lewallen is a retired pilot of a major airline and lives near Stephenville, TX with his wife, Kim. Together, they have seven grown children and four grandchildren. Nolan's two greatest passions are the Bible and politics, so The Integration of Church & State is the culmination of the two. He has appeared on several Christian television programs, and his previously published works include Where's My 100-Fold Return?, The Sports Edition of the Bible, and The Cowboy Pictorial Edition of the Bible.

A State of Mixture

Author : Richard E. Payne
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286197
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A State of Mixture written by Richard E. Payne and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted participants in this empire, Richard Payne demonstrates their integration into elite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices and imaginaries, and participation in imperial institutions. ÊThe rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion. Christians, for their part, positioned themselves in a political culture not of their own making, with recourse to their own ideological and institutional resources, ranging from the writing of saintsÕ lives to the judicial arbitration of bishops. In placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, A State of Mixture helps explain the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries. Ê

Transforming Faith Communities

Author : Michael Ian Bochenski
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718845986
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Faith Communities written by Michael Ian Bochenski and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Faith Communities draws upon a model for the church that combines congregationalism with a constructive approach to church-state relationships within a vision for a renewed Christendom, commended as a viable option for Christian missionin the twenty-first-century world. Michael Ian Bochenski uses two movements to make his case: sixteenth-century Anabaptism and late twentieth-century Latin American liberation theology. Each movement is held up as a mirror to the other in a vision for the transformation of church and society that resonates powerfully with contemporary culture. Outlining the development of radical religious communities, Bochenski examines some of the factors that create world-affirming Christian faith communities, and explores many examples of effective and constructive engagement with church and society across the centuries.

Christ's Strategy to Transform Nations

Author : Mark A. Beliles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539488712
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Christ's Strategy to Transform Nations written by Mark A. Beliles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christ's Strategy to Transform Nations is a comprehensive look at the Biblical best practices that over history have proven to transform nations for good. Dr. Mark Beliles, Ph.D., draws from his 30 years of studying Christian thought and actions in many nations. He has personally visited over 50 nations as well. His research led him to a startling find: Never has prayer, church growth and revival been enough to significantly transform a nation. He discovered that the missing element is found in Christ's Great Commission to "disciple the nations." When Christians have intentionally focused on not only training leaders for the church itself but also the nation, eventually the culture is changed. The Pilgrims who settled America and the Founding Fathers shared in this commitment and they founded the most transformed nation in history. But today most of it is lost. Business as usual for the modern church is not working. We must return to the historically-proven practices that transforms culture. Following the signs that Christ said would follow them, the book presents 3 major practices for 5 different areas of life. Rich with historical examples, and modern testimonies, the reader comes away not just inspired, but prepared to begin developing a long-term strategic plan for his own community.

Traditions in Transformation

Author : Frank Moore Cross
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9780931464065
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Traditions in Transformation written by Frank Moore Cross and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1981 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolism in the song of Jonah.--Greenspoon, L. J. The origin of the idea of resurrection.--Purvis, J. D. The Samaritan problem.--Collins, J. J. Patterns of eschatology at Qumran.--Collins, A. Y. Myth and history in the book of Revelation.

Christian Missionaries, Ethnicity, and State Control in Globalized Yunnan

Author : Gideon Elazar
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271096098
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Christian Missionaries, Ethnicity, and State Control in Globalized Yunnan written by Gideon Elazar and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Communist Revolution of 1949, missionaries were kicked out of China and proselytizing was outlawed. However, since the beginning of the reform era, China has witnessed a massive return of missionary workers. Today there are more Christians in church on a given Sunday in China than anywhere else on the globe. This book investigates the interaction of Western missionaries, ethnic minorities, and Han Chinese converts with the Chinese state in an increasingly globalized China. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Yunnan, it tries to make sense of the disparity between official state rhetoric and everyday reality. Examining morality in the context of the free-market system, spatial practices, linguistic activity, and Christian welfare organizations, Gideon Elazar reveals the ways in which the previously conflicting Communist Party and Christian “civilizing projects” have reached a measure of convergence, enabling local authorities to treat missionaries with a degree of tolerance. Elazar shows how this unofficial arrangement relates to the social realities and challenges of the reform era, including ethnic culture and identity, Yunnan’s many social problems, and the integration of ethnic minorities into the state system. By exploring the continuously shifting social and religious borders negotiated by converts, missionaries, and state authorities in Southwest China, this book sheds light on the larger issue of contemporary religion in China’s global era. It will be of interest to researchers of religion, Christianity, and minority groups in the People’s Republic of China.

The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State

Author : Stephan Leibfried
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199691584
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State written by Stephan Leibfried and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South. Leading experts in their fields, from Europe and North America, discuss conceptualizations and theories of the state and the transformations of the state in its engagement with a changing international environment as well as with changing domestic economic, social, and political challenges. The Handbook covers different types of states in the Global South (from failed to predatory, rentier and developmental), in different kinds of advanced industrial political economies (corporatist, statist, liberal, import substitution industrialization), and in various post-Communist countries (Russia, China, successor states to the USSR, and Eastern Europe). It also addresses crucial challenges in different areas of state intervention, from security to financial regulation, migration, welfare states, democratization and quality of democracy, ethno-nationalism, and human development. The volume makes a compelling case that far from losing its relevance in the face of globalization, the state remains a key actor in all areas of social and economic life, changing its areas of intervention, its modes of operation, and its structures in adaption to new international and domestic challenges.

The Democratization of American Christianity

Author : Nathan O. Hatch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300159560
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Democratization of American Christianity written by Nathan O. Hatch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Transformation of Early Christianity from an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement

Author : Lyford Paterson Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Early Christianity from an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement written by Lyford Paterson Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Nation Under God

Author : Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465040640
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book One Nation Under God written by Kevin M. Kruse and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. To fight the "slavery" of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for "freedom under God" that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was "one nation under God." Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.

Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State

Author : Barbara Bompani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351999982
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State written by Barbara Bompani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the rapid growth of Christian charismatic movements throughout sub-Saharan Africa has drastically reconfigured the region’s religious landscape. As a result, charismatic factions play an increasingly public role throughout Africa, far beyond the religious sphere. This book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to consider the complex relationship between Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity and the socio-political transformation taking place throughout this region. Each of this text’s three main sections helps in understanding how discourses of moral regeneration emanating from these diverse Christian communities, largely charismatic, extend beyond religious bounds. Part 1 covers politics, political elites and elections, Part 2 explores society, economies and the public sphere, and Part 3 discusses values, public beliefs and morality. These sections also highlight how these discourses contribute to the transformation of three specific social milieus to reinforce visions of the Christian citizen. Examining contemporary examples with high quality scholarly insight, this book is vital reading for academics and students with an interest in the relationship between religion, politics and development in Africa.

Making Religion Safe for Democracy

Author : J. Judd Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316202005
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Making Religion Safe for Democracy written by J. Judd Owen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Does the toleration of liberal democratic society mean that religious faiths are left substantively intact, so long as they respect the rights of others? Or do liberal principles presuppose a deeper transformation of religion? Does life in democratic society itself transform religion? In Making Religion Safe for Democracy, J. Judd Owen explores these questions by tracing a neglected strand of Enlightenment political thought that presents a surprisingly unified reinterpretation of Christianity by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Thomas Jefferson. Owen then turns to Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of the effects of democracy on religion in the early United States. Tocqueville finds a religion transformed by democracy in a way that bears a striking resemblance to what the Enlightenment thinkers sought, while offering a fundamentally different interpretation of what is at stake in that transformation. Making Religion Safe for Democracy offers a novel framework for understanding the ambiguous status of religion in modern democratic society"--

Christian Nation

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Christian Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christian Imperialism

Author : Emily Conroy-Krutz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501701037
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Christian Imperialism written by Emily Conroy-Krutz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part in the Protestant conversion of the entire world. Over the next several decades, these men and women were joined by hundreds more American missionaries at stations all over the globe. Emily Conroy-Krutz shows the surprising extent of the early missionary impulse and demonstrates that American evangelical Protestants of the early nineteenth century were motivated by Christian imperialism—an understanding of international relations that asserted the duty of supposedly Christian nations, such as the United States and Britain, to use their colonial and commercial power to spread Christianity. In describing how American missionaries interacted with a range of foreign locations (including India, Liberia, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, North America, and Singapore) and imperial contexts, Christian Imperialism provides a new perspective on how Americans thought of their country’s role in the world. While in the early republican period many were engaged in territorial expansion in the west, missionary supporters looked east and across the seas toward Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Conroy-Krutz’s history of the mission movement reveals that strong Anglo-American and global connections persisted through the early republic. Considering Britain and its empire to be models for their work, the missionaries of the American Board attempted to convert the globe into the image of Anglo-American civilization.