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Author : Hilda Adam Kring
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Harmonists: a Folk-cultural Approach written by Hilda Adam Kring and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496822668
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Practice of Folklore written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, often characterized as folklore. In The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition, author Simon J. Bronner works with theories of cultural practice to explain the social and psychological need for tradition in everyday life. Bronner proposes a distinctive “praxic” perspective that will answer the pressing philosophical as well as psychological question of why people enjoy repeating themselves. The significance of the keyword practice, he asserts, is the embodiment of a tension between repetition and variation in human behavior. Thinking with practice, particularly in a digital world, forces redefinitions of folklore and a reorientation toward interpreting everyday life. More than performance or enactment in social theory, practice connects localized culture with the vernacular idea that “this is the way we do things around here.” Practice refers to the way those things are analyzed as part of, rather than apart from, theory, thus inviting the study of studying. “The way we do things” invokes the social basis of “doing” in practice as cultural and instrumental. Building on previous studies of tradition in relation to creativity, Bronner presents an overview of practice theory and the ways it might be used in folklore and folklife studies. Demonstrating the application of this theory in folkloristic studies, Bronner offers four provocative case studies of psychocultural meanings that arise from traditional frames of action and address issues of our times: referring to the boogieman; connecting “wild child” beliefs to school shootings; deciphering the offensive chants of sports fans; and explicating male bravado in bawdy singing. Turning his analysis to the analysts of tradition, Bronner uses practice theory to evaluate the agenda of folklorists in shaping perceptions of tradition-centered “folk societies” such as the Amish. He further unpacks the culturally based rationale of public folklore programming. He interprets the evolving idea of folk museums in a digital world and assesses how the folklorists' terms and actions affect how people think about tradition.
Download or read book Publications of the American Folklife Center written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Hiebert Kerst
Publisher : Washington : American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Ethnic Folklife Dissertations from the United States and Canada, 1960-1980 written by Catherine Hiebert Kerst and published by Washington : American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald E. Pitzer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080789897X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book America's Communal Utopias written by Donald E. Pitzer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book examines these utopian movements throughout the course of their development--before, during, and after their communal period. Each chapter includes a brief chronology, giving basic information about the group discussed. An appendix presents the most complete list of American utopian communities ever published. The contributors are Jonathan G. Andelson, Karl J. R. Arndt, Pearl W. Bartelt, Priscilla J. Brewer, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Lawrence Foster, Carl J. Guarneri, Robert V. Hine, Gertrude E. Huntington, James E. Landing, Dean L. May, Lawrence J. McCrank, J. Gordon Melton, Donald E. Pitzer, Robert P. Sutton, Jon Wagner, and Robert S. Weisbrot.
Author : Charles Edwin Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810843218
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Perfectionist Persuasion written by Charles Edwin Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1974 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social profile of the National Holiness Movement within American Methodism for the period 1867-1936. Provides fifty historical photos and extensive statistical tables and charts. Cloth edition previously published 1974. Paperback edition available March 2002.
Author : Jyotsna Sreenivasan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598840533
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Utopias in American History written by Jyotsna Sreenivasan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look at the long tradition of communal societies in the United States from colonial times to the present, examining their ideological foundations, daily life, and relationships to mainstream American society. With this volume, a fascinating, yet often overlooked, part of the American story is brought to the forefront. In Utopias in American History, independent scholar Jyotsna Sreenivasan makes the case that from the founding of the American colonies to the hippie communes of the 1960s to the cohousing movement, which started in the 1990s, the United States has the most sustained tradition of utopianism of any modern country. Accessible yet authoritative and highly informative, Utopias in American History offers dozens of alphabetically organized entries covering all aspects of communal societies from colonial times to the present. Featured are descriptions of over 40 major utopian communities, both religious and secular. Entries are organized in terms of their histories, belief systems, leadership, economics, daily life, and the reactions they drew from mainstream society.
Author : Samuel J. Rogal
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810824164
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (241 download)
Download or read book A General Introduction to Hymnody and Congregational Song written by Samuel J. Rogal and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizes the English hymn as a literary entity within denominational and historical contexts. The author sets forth a number of definitions for hymnody and congregational song, and then examines the development of the various forms in England and the United States. With a listing of works for further reading, an index to all hymns discussed, and chronology. ...valuable both for the historical information it provides and for its appreciative evaluation of the religious treasures enshrined in English-language hymns. --ADRIS NEWSLETTER
Author : Sue Samuelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years of the Department of Folklore & Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania written by Sue Samuelson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas W. Geyer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810842021
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Fear, Anomaly, and Uncertainty in the Gospel of Mark written by Douglas W. Geyer and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Geyer's illuminating analysis of Mark 4:35-6:56 explains why the Gospel ends as it does in the earliest manuscripts-abruptly, at 16:8, with the words, "for they were afraid." This ending, with women fleeing the empty tomb in "trembling and astonishment," has long been considered "problematic," and, in the several attempts to rewrite it, Mark 16 has become a source of unending mischief. Geyer's work draws on a vast literature of fear, anomaly, terror, and dread in the ancient world to demonstrate that this ending is a consistent, overriding theme of Mark's Gospel. In Mark we see and hear the story of Jesus through the eyes and ears of the Roman world. Geyer brings to bear the literature of that world in a way that helps his readers to understand what Mark is doing and how the story that Mark tells continues to touch his readers and hearers ancient and modern (and "postmodern"). Geyer guides the reader through a vast and uncharted primary literature, demonstrating its relevance for New Testament study. In so doing he clearly proposes a fresh and original understanding of Mark that cuts across many of the critical controversies and renews its purpose and usefulness as "good news"--Gospel--for the terrors and uncertainties of our own time.
Author : Daniel B. Reibel
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811729574
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Old Economy Village written by Daniel B. Reibel and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated pamphlet guide to the museum in Pennsylvania dedicated to the Harmony Society called Old Economy Village.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Midwestern Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Wunderlich
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815625544
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York written by Roger Wunderlich and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the Modern Times community which championed every kind of reform from abolitionism, women's rights and vegetarianism to hydropathy, pacifism, total abstinence and the bloomer costume. It relies on primary sources such as land deeds, census entries and eyewitness accounts.
Author : Rosemary Ruether
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520250055
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Goddesses and the Divine Feminine written by Rosemary Ruether and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scholarship in this book is superior, revealing a depth of insight and a scope of knowledge possible only from a scholar who has lived with the concerns of feminist theology for decades. Ruether is a gifted storyteller, and lucidly translates complex ideas and debates. This work is of the highest importance, and Ruether asks the right questions at the right time. The text is groundbreaking."—Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Saint Mary's College of California "Ruether has provided a valuable introduction to an important feminist topic: what can we know about sacred female imagery in Western culture? She guides us through contemporary feminist scholarship, providing engaging narrative, and venturing her own interpretations. Ruether calls for feminists to move beyond divisions created by our different interpretations of prehistory and work together towards our common project of a more peaceful, just, and ecological world."—Carol Hepokoski, Meadville Lombard Theological School
Author : Joseph Dougherty
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870924
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book From Altar-Throne to Table written by Joseph Dougherty and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates one of the most successful liturgical reforms in Catholic history. Only a century ago, faithful, practicing Catholics received Holy Communion only once a year; now, among American English-speaking Catholics, Holy Communion is a routine, weekly devotional practice. This book explains how and why this ritual sea-change happened.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Folklife written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard A. Barnes
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810824386
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Horace Bushnell and the Virtuous Republic written by Howard A. Barnes and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents all major aspects of the life and thought of Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) within the context of 19th-century America.
