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Book Synopsis The American Heretic's Dictionary by : Chaz Bufe
Download or read book The American Heretic's Dictionary written by Chaz Bufe and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes over 650 mordant definitions by Bufe--twice as many as in the original edition--and 40 illustrations by San Francisco artist and filmmaker J. R. Swanson. The definitions skewer such targets as religion, the "right to life" movement, capitalism, marxism, the IRS, politicians of all stripes, and common euphemisms, as well as male-female relations and sexual attitudes, something which Bierce, writing in more conservative times, was not free to do. The book concludes with a lengthy appendix of the best 200 definitions from Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Book Synopsis The American Heretic's Dictionary by : Chaz Bufe
Download or read book The American Heretic's Dictionary written by Chaz Bufe and published by See Sharp Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes over 650 mordant definitions by Bufe—twice as many as in the original edition—and 40 illustrations by San Francisco artist and filmmaker J. R. Swanson. The definitions skewer such targets as religion, the "right to life" movement, capitalism, marxism, the IRS, politicians of all stripes, and common euphemisms, as well as male-female relations and sexual attitudes, something which Bierce, writing in more conservative times, was not free to do. The book concludes with a lengthy appendix of the best 200 definitions from Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Book Synopsis American Heretics by : Jerome E. Copulsky
Download or read book American Heretics written by Jerome E. Copulsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating account of the religious critics of American liberalism, pluralism, and democracy--from the Revolution until today "A chilling consideration of persistent mutations of American thought still threatening our pluralist democracy."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the Founders of the United States envisioned. Advocates of a "Christian America" claim that the Framers intended a nation whose political values and institutions were shaped by Christianity; secularists argue that they designed an enlightened republic where church and state were kept separate. Both sides appeal to the Founding to justify their beliefs about the kind of nation the United States was meant to be or should become. In this book, Jerome E. Copulsky complicates this ongoing public argument by examining a collection of thinkers who, on religious grounds, considered the nation's political ideas illegitimate, its institutions flawed, and its church-state arrangement defective. Beholden to visions of cosmic order and social hierarchy, rejecting the increasing pluralism and secularism of American society, they predicted the collapse of an unrighteous nation and the emergence of a new Christian commonwealth in its stead. By engaging their challenges and interpreting their visions we can better appreciate the perennial temptations of religious illiberalism--as well as the virtues and fragilities of America's liberal democracy.
Book Synopsis The Devil's Dictionaries by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Devil's Dictionaries written by Ambrose Bierce and published by See Sharp Press. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of hundreds of biting, witty, cruel, and hilarious definitions combines the best 200 definitions from Ambrose Bierce’s classic The Devil’s Dictionary, with more than 500 definitions from the most humorous and stinging entries in Chaz Bufe’s The American Heretic’s Dictionary. This new edition includes 50 new definitions from Bufe and new biting illustrations by San Francisco artist and filmmaker J. R. Swanson. The Bierce definitions focus on his favorite targets, including religion, jingoism masquerading as patriotism, the “lickspittle” press, the thievery inherent in the American economic system, and the multitude of idiocies and hypocrisies pervading American social and political life. Bufe’s definitions share many of the same targets, but also skewer such contemporary plagues as the “right to life” movement, religious fundamentalism, the IRS, and the puritanically “politically correct.” Bufe also turns a jaundiced eye on both male and female sexual attitudes, something which Bierce, writing in much more conservative times, was not free to do.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Heresy Trials in American Christianity by : George H. Shriver
Download or read book Dictionary of Heresy Trials in American Christianity written by George H. Shriver and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1997-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this volume presents fifty formal and informal trials of individuals and institutions that have been labeled as heretical. These are challenging stories of ministers, professors, and laypersons who literally risked their careers and lives for their understanding of religious truths. From Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson in the colonial period to the latest 1990s casualties in the Southern Baptist Convention, trials from all major periods in American History and from all the major denominations are presented by leading scholars in the study of religious history. Of interest to scholars, students, and the general religious public. In this moving work, Catholic heretics mingle with Baptists and Mormons, female heretics are hanged and banished, and laypersons are dismissed from membership in their beloved church. Heretical professors lay the groundwork for academic freedom in the 20th century. It is evident from these essays that heretics in the American religious tradition have been among the most creative and voluminous contributors to American society. The trials they suffered were costly, but their contributions were vital. Their legacy informs present religious culture in a myriad of ways.
Book Synopsis American Heretics and Saints by : Wallace Palmer Rusterholtz
Download or read book American Heretics and Saints written by Wallace Palmer Rusterholtz and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought by : John Henry Blunt
Download or read book Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought written by John Henry Blunt and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Edited by The Rev. J. H. Blunt by : John Henry Blunt
Download or read book Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Edited by The Rev. J. H. Blunt written by John Henry Blunt and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An American Dictionary of the English Language by : Noah Webster
Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers by : John R. Shook
Download or read book Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers written by John R. Shook and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 2759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers includes both academic and non-academic philosophers, anda large number of female and minority thinkers whose work has been neglected. It includes those intellectualsinvolved in the development of psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology, politicalscience, and several other fields, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy in thelate nineteenth century.Each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, abibliography of writings, and suggestions for further reading. While all the major post-Civil War philosophers arepresent, the most valuable feature of this dictionary is its coverage of a huge range of less well-known writers,including hundreds of presently obscure thinkers. In many cases, the Dictionary of Modern AmericanPhilosophers offers the first scholarly treatment of the life and work of certain writers. This book will be anindispensable reference work for scholars working on almost any aspect of modern American thought.
Book Synopsis The American Encyclopædic Dictionary by :
Download or read book The American Encyclopædic Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties and Schools of Religious Thought by : John Blunt
Download or read book Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties and Schools of Religious Thought written by John Blunt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Book Synopsis The New American Encyclopedic Dictionary by : Robert Hunter
Download or read book The New American Encyclopedic Dictionary written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary by :
Download or read book The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis the american cyclopaedia a popular dictionary of general knowledge by : george ripley
Download or read book the american cyclopaedia a popular dictionary of general knowledge written by george ripley and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia by : Robert Hunter
Download or read book The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Noah Webster and the American Dictionary by : David Micklethwait
Download or read book Noah Webster and the American Dictionary written by David Micklethwait and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as "a vain ... plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson"--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a "barren desart of philology," the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more "plodding" than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections. The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker. The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as schoolteacher, copyright law champion, and itinerant lecturer; and examines the Webster legacy. An appendix containing title page reproductions from Webster's books, as well as some from his predecessors and competitors, is also included.
