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Author : Jack Mendelsohn
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9780933840287
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Channing written by Jack Mendelsohn and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Mendelsohn
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Channing, the Reluctant Radical written by Jack Mendelsohn and published by Unitarian Universalist Association. This book was released on 1971 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the life of Channing, an important figure in the history of the Unitarian Church.
Author : Denise Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313017077
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Writers of the American Renaissance written by Denise Knight and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, and our notions of the 19th-century renaissance have been reevaluated. Mainstream anthologies have been revised to reflect the expanding literary canon, yet resources for readers have remained widely scattered. This book expands earlier definitions of the 19th-century American Renaissance as represented by canonical writers such as Emerson and Poe, covering writers who published popular fiction and dominated the literary marketplace of the day. Included is generous coverage of women writers and writers of color. The volume provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 writers of the period, including Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and many more. Each entry was written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
Author : Jonathan A. Glickstein
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813921150
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (211 download)
Download or read book American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety written by Jonathan A. Glickstein and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, then, was the supposed role of poverty, the fear of poverty, and other negative work incentives in the era of early industrial capitalism and escalating sectional conflict over slavery? American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety examines a wide spectrum of antebellum American thought on these and related issues, including slavery and cheap immigrant and female sweated labor."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472570553
Total Pages : 1105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America written by John R. Shook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work. Selecting over 700 figures from the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers and the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, this condensed edition includes key contributors to philosophical thought. From 1600 to the present day, entries cover psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology and political science, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy. Clear and accessible, each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, a bibliography of writings and suggestions for further reading. Featuring a new preface by the editor and a comprehensive introduction, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America includes 30 new entries on twenty-first century thinkers including Martha Nussbaum and Patricia Churchland. With in-depth overviews of Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Noah Porter, Frederick Rauch, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, this is an invaluable one-stop research volume to understanding leading figures in American thought and the development of American intellectual history.
Author : Richard S. Gilbert
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558964082
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Building Your Own Theology written by Richard S. Gilbert and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195122127
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Transcendentalism written by Joel Myerson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings from leading figures of the 19th century American Transcendentalist movement.
Author : O. C. Edwards Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book A Nation with the Soul of a Church written by O. C. Edwards Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very beginning, religious leaders have influenced the course of American history—sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. This book examines those Christian sermons that set or changed the course of the nation. What did 18th-century preacher Jonathan Edwards really mean to convey with is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon? What Southern minister did most to encourage secession of the Southern states from the Union? And why does Martin Luther King Jr. need to be remembered for more than his "I Have a Dream" speech? This book examines the sermons that have shaped American history from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the Obama administration. It provides extended biographical treatments of those who preached them, thereby providing readers with the historical context of the sermon, an explanation of what made these orations so effective, and an understanding of the role of religion in American history. Author O.C. Edwards Jr. supplies insightful and interesting coverage of Christian preachers and sermons that will engage anyone interested in America's religious or social history. The book addresses the religious philosophies and speeches of individuals such as William Sloan Coffin Jr., Russell Conwell, Charles Coughlin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Billy Graham, Anne Hutchinson, Martin Luther King Jr., Patricia Merchant, John Winthrop, and Jeremiah Wright.
Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199887071
Total Pages : 953 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism written by Joel Myerson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.
Author : Megan Marshall
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547348754
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Peabody Sisters written by Megan Marshall and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (The New York Times). Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters—and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day—has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall’s monumental biography brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth Peabody, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire influence on the great writers of the era—Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them—who also published some of their earliest works; it was she who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson’s individualism and toward a greater connection to others. Middle sister Mary Peabody was a passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. And the frail Sophia, an admired painter among the preeminent society artists of the day, married Nathaniel Hawthorne—but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray. Casting new light on a legendary American era, and on three sisters who made an indelible mark on history, Marshall’s unprecedented research uncovers thousands of never-before-seen letters as well as other previously unmined original sources. “A massive enterprise,” The Peabody Sisters is an event in American biography (The New York Times Book Review). “Marshall’s book is a grand story . . . where male and female minds and sensibilities were in free, fruitful communion, even if men could exploit this cultural richness far more easily than women.” —The Washington Post “Marshall has greatly increased our understanding of these women and their times in one of the best literary biographies to come along in years.” —New England Quarterly
Author : Clemens Spahr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793649553
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education written by Clemens Spahr and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education focuses on three Romantic educational genres and their institutional and media contexts: the conversation, literary journalism, and the public lecture. The genres discussed in this book illustrate the ways in which the Transcendentalists engaged nineteenthcentury media and educational institutions in order to fully realize their projects. The book also charts the development from the semi-public conversational platforms such as Alcott’s Temple School and Fuller’s conversations for women in the 1830s to the increasingly public periodical culture and lecture platforms of the 1840s and the early 1850s. This expansion caused a reconsideration of the meaning and function of Romanticism.
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Author : Mitchell K. Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440845190
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Opposition to War [2 volumes] written by Mitchell K. Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Americans sought peaceful, rather than destructive, solutions to domestic and world conflict? This two-volume set documents peace and antiwar movements in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Although national leaders often claim to be fighting to achieve peace, the real peace seekers struggle against enormous resistance to their message and have often faced persecution for their efforts. Despite a well-established pattern of being involved in wars, the United States also has a long tradition of citizens who made extensive efforts to build and maintain peaceful societies and prevent the destructive human and material costs of war. Unarmed activists have most consistently upheld American values at home. Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements investigates this historical tradition of resistance to involvement in armed conflict—an especially important and relevant topic today as the nation has been mired in numerous military conflicts throughout most of the current century. The book examines a largely misunderstood and underappreciated minority of Americans who have committed themselves to finding peaceful resolutions to domestic and international conflicts—individuals who have proposed and conducted an array of practical and creative methods for peaceful change, from the transformation of individual behavior to the development of international governing and legal systems, for more than 250 years. Readers will learn how individuals working alone or organized into societies of various size have steadfastly campaigned to stop war, end the arms race, eliminate the underlying causes of war, and defend the civil liberties of Americans when wartime nationalism most threatens them.
Author : Timothy L. Hall
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108060
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book American Religious Leaders written by Timothy L. Hall and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the lives and achievements of more than 270 spiritual leaders, arranged alphabetically, who made major contributions to the history of American religious life.
Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471792
Total Pages : 2052 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World written by Junius P. Rodriguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 2052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history. These movements for freedom have taken many forms, from individual escapes, violent rebellions, and official proclamations to mass organizations, decisive social actions, and major wars. Every emancipation movement - whether in Europe, Africa, or the Americas - has profoundly transformed the country and society in which it existed. This unique A-Z encyclopedia examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources. While it centers on the United States, the set also includes authoritative accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. "The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition" provides definitive coverage of one of the most significant experiences in human history. It features primary source documents, maps, illustrations, cross-references, a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, and specialized indexes in each volume, and covers a wide range of individuals and the major themes and ideas that motivated them to confront and abolish slavery.
Author : Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199764352
Total Pages : 1551 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History written by Joan Shelley Rubin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 1551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History brings together in one two-volume set the record of the nation's values, aspirations, anxieties, and beliefs as expressed in both everyday life and formal bodies of thought. Over the past twenty years, the field of cultural history has moved to the center of American historical studies, and has come to encompass the experiences of ordinary citizens in such arenas as reading and religious practice as well as the accomplishments of prominent artists and writers. Some of the most imaginative scholarship in recent years has emerged from this burgeoning field. The scope of the volume reflects that development: the encyclopedia incorporates popular entertainment ranging from minstrel shows to video games, middlebrow ventures like Chautauqua lectures and book clubs, and preoccupations such as "Perfectionism" and "Wellness" that have shaped Americans' behavior at various points in their past and that continue to influence attitudes in the present. The volumes also make available recent scholarly insights into the writings of political scientists, philosophers, feminist theorists, social reformers, and other thinkers whose works have furnished the underpinnings of Americans' civic activities and personal concerns. Anyone wishing to understand the hearts and minds of the inhabitants of the United States from the early days of settlement to the twenty-first century will find the encyclopedia invaluable.
Author : Daniel Walker Howe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199740798
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Making the American Self written by Daniel Walker Howe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history. One of the most precious liberties Americans have always cherished is the ability to "make something of themselves"--to choose not only an occupation but an identity. Examining works by Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and others, Howe investigates how Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the process of "self-construction," "self-improvement," and the "pursuit of happiness." He explores as well how Americans understood individual identity in relation to the larger body politic, and argues that the conscious construction of the autonomous self was in fact essential to American democracy--that it both shaped and was in turn shaped by American democratic institutions. "The thinkers described in this book," Howe writes, "believed that, to the extent individuals exercised self-control, they were making free institutions--liberal, republican, and democratic--possible." And as the scope of American democracy widened so too did the practice of self-construction, moving beyond the preserve of elite white males to potentially all Americans. Howe concludes that the time has come to ground our democracy once again in habits of personal responsibility, civility, and self-discipline esteemed by some of America's most important thinkers. Erudite, beautifully written, and more pertinent than ever as we enter a new era of individual and governmental responsibility, Making the American Self illuminates an impulse at the very heart of the American experience.
Author : Terry Jonathan Moore
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984562851
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book My Subtle Shift from Baptist Fundamentalist to ... written by Terry Jonathan Moore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you need help in reconciling the narrow demands of conformist religion with the free spirit maturing within you? Whether you or someone you know is struggling to overcome the psychological bondage of religious fundamentalism, I hope this book will prove helpful. I ́m Terry Jonathan Moore, Ph.D., author of "My Subtle Shift from Baptist Fundamentalist to Unitarian Universalist: Sermons of a Newly Liberated Ministry " (Xlibris, 1998). These are sermons I wrote following my own victory over the religion of fear in which I was immersed as a Southern Baptist for some twenty-five years. I hope you will benefit from my decades of religious study and inner struggle by considering a saner, freer, healthier spiritual life such as I have found. The following free excerpt is my autobiographical sharing of spiritual growth from conformist religiosity to greater personal maturity of soul. I hope it helps you in your growth beyond the fundamentals to free and reasonable faith! Here are the outlines for the chapters in the book: 1. MY SUBTLE SHIFT FROM BAPTIST FUNDAMENTALIST TO UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST I. Baptists ́ God A. Experience B. Theory II. Jesus ́ God A. Experience B. Theory 2. A MOTHER LIKE MINE I. Her Hope II. Her Faith III. Her Love 3. ASPIRATIONS I. Saving My Breath to Avoid: A. Disillusionment B. Suffering C. Frustration II. Seeking Worthy Aspirations A. Sterling Character B. Loving Relationships 4. ANCIENT UNITARIANISM I. From Egypt A. A false start? B. Reborn hope II. From the Middle East A. Poly-, Heno-, & Monotheism B. Integrated religion & ethics III. Into Europe A. Our tested heritage B. Holding to mature faith 5. ANCIENT UNIVERSALISM I. From God ́s chosen people, the Hebrews A. Universalist theory B. Elitist practice II. Through Paul ́s mission to the Gentiles III. To Origen ́s universalism 6. MAGNANIMITY (MATTHEW 5:21-48) I. But I tell you, Transcend the Ten Commandments (21-37). II. But I tell you, Surpass retaliation with self-restraint (38-42). III. But I tell you, Overpower hatred with love (43-47). IV. Be mature (48). 7. CHRISTIANITY ́S INSPIRERS I. Jesus of Nazareth A. Respected, rural Palestinian B. Earthly concept of God ́s future kingdom C. Concern for outcast Jews II. Saul/Paul of Tarsus A. Disdained, urban Hellenist B. Cosmic concept of God ́s present salvation C. Concern for educated Gentiles 8. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING I. His transitional theology A. More liberal than his Calvinist predecessors B. Conservative compared to his successors II. His enduring spirit 9. ASSOCIATION I. For our world II. For our region III. For our neighbors 10. INGATHERING I. Gather in the congregation A. Tolerate low-level conflict B. Omit abusive behavior C. Include theological diversity II. Gather in the committed III. Gather in the core 11. OUTSCATTERING I. It ́s good for our souls II. It ́s good for our church III. It ́s good for others 12. SIGHTS I. Our meaningful efforts as prophets II. Our meaningful efforts as priests After reading this free selection from the book, please click on contact author to email your comments.
