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Fair, Clear, and Terrible, Second Edition

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Author : Shirley Nelson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498287743
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Fair, Clear, and Terrible, Second Edition written by Shirley Nelson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the century, a young man named Frank Weston Sandford, proclaiming himself the fulfillment of certain Biblical prophecies, founded a movement called Shiloh, its central location on a hill in the town of Durham, Maine. The movement's purpose was sweeping and ultimate--to prepare the world for the Second Coming of Christ and the cataclysmic events which would usher it in. The enactment of this mission spanned twenty-five years, involving many hundreds of people. Sandford, an appealing and volatile leader, erected a complex of buildings in Durham, opened stations in major American cities, then set sail on the high seas in a racing schooner with a select group of followers. Their intention was to circle the globe for Christ. Instead, they headed for doom. As the movement expanded, so did its dangers. In the court trials that structure the story, Sandford was finally convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison. Shirley Nelson, whose parents grew up in this unusual society, tells Shiloh's powerful story with understanding and grace. She captures the inner dimensions of an intense religious culture and deals poignantly with the frightening phenomenon of one personality in control of many others.

Fair, Clear, and Terrible

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Author : Shirley Nelson
Publisher : British American Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fair, Clear, and Terrible written by Shirley Nelson and published by British American Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of a religious fanatic tells the true story of a dynamic religious leader who settled in Shiloh, Maine, and his perfectionist followers, giving insight into countless extremist movements today.

Religious Convictions

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Author : Shawn Francis Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Religious Convictions written by Shawn Francis Peters and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hillbilly Elegy

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Author : J D Vance
Publisher : Harper Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9780063438354
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J D Vance and published by Harper Large Print. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "You will not read a more important book about America this year."--The Economist "A riveting book."--The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."--David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

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Author : Jeanne Theoharis
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807075876
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A More Beautiful and Terrible History written by Jeanne Theoharis and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the movement firmly in the past, whitewashed the forces that stood in its way, and diminished its scope. And it is used perniciously in our own times to chastise present-day movements and obscure contemporary injustice. In A More Beautiful and Terrible History award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects this national myth-making, teasing apart the accepted stories to show them in a strikingly different light. We see Rosa Parks not simply as a bus lady but a lifelong criminal justice activist and radical; Martin Luther King, Jr. as not only challenging Southern sheriffs but Northern liberals, too; and Coretta Scott King not only as a “helpmate” but a lifelong economic justice and peace activist who pushed her husband’s activism in these directions. Moving from “the histories we get” to “the histories we need,” Theoharis challenges nine key aspects of the fable to reveal the diversity of people, especially women and young people, who led the movement; the work and disruption it took; the role of the media and “polite racism” in maintaining injustice; and the immense barriers and repression activists faced. Theoharis makes us reckon with the fact that far from being acceptable, passive or unified, the civil rights movement was unpopular, disruptive, and courageously persevering. Activists embraced an expansive vision of justice—which a majority of Americans opposed and which the federal government feared. By showing us the complex reality of the movement, the power of its organizing, and the beauty and scope of the vision, Theoharis proves that there was nothing natural or inevitable about the progress that occurred. A More Beautiful and Terrible History will change our historical frame, revealing the richness of our civil rights legacy, the uncomfortable mirror it holds to the nation, and the crucial work that remains to be done. Winner of the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize in Nonfiction

Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff

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Author : Sean Penn
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1501189050
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff written by Sean Penn and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An incredibly interesting work.” —Jane Smiley “A straight up masterwork.” —Sarah Silverman “Blisteringly funny.” —Corey Seymour “A transcendent apocalyptic satire.” —Michael Silverblatt “Crackling with life.” —Paul Theroux “Great fun.” —Salman Rushdie “A provocative debut.” —Kirkus Reviews From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, “charmingly weird” (Booklist, starred review) novel about Bob Honey—a modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin. Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people, especially since his divorce. He’s tired of being marketed to every moment, sick of a world where even an orgasm isn’t real until it is turned into a tweet. A paragon of old-fashioned American entrepreneurship, Bob sells septic tanks to Jehovah’s Witnesses and arranges pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators. He’s also a contract killer for an off-the-books program run by a branch of United States intelligence that targets the elderly, the infirm, and others who drain society of its resources. When a nosy journalist starts asking questions, Bob can’t decide if it’s a chance to form some sort of new friendship or the beginning of the end for him. With treason on everyone’s lips, terrorism in everyone’s sights, and American political life sinking to ever-lower standards, Bob decides it’s time to make a change—if he doesn’t get killed by his mysterious controllers or exposed in the rapacious media first. A thunderbolt of startling images and painted “with a broadly satirical, Vonnegut-ian brush” (Kirkus Reviews), Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is one of the year's most controversial and talked about literary works.

Fundamentalists in the City

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Author : Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195173902
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalists in the City written by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fundamentalists in the City' traces the rise of fundamentalist protestantism in Boston, beginning with the reaction to the perceived threat of Catholic domination of the city in the 1880s, when immigration was at its height. The book emphasises the importance of local events in dividing liberal and conservative protestants.

Along the Kennebec

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Author : Gay M. Grant
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780752402512
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Along the Kennebec written by Gay M. Grant and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religious Diversity and American Religious History

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Author : Walter H. Conser
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820319186
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Religious Diversity and American Religious History written by Walter H. Conser and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in this volume explore the vast diversity of religions in the United States, from Judaic, Catholic, and African American to Asian, Muslim, and Native American traditions. Chapters on religion and the South, religion and gender, indigenous sectarian religious movements, and the metaphysical tradition round out the collection. The contributors examine the past, present, and future of American religion, first orienting readers to historiographic trends and traditions of interpretation in each area, then providing case studies to show their vision of how these areas should be developed. Full of provocative insights into the complexity of American religion, this volume helps us better understand America's religious history and its future challenges and directions.

The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy

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Author : Harold D. Hunter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608991547
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy written by Harold D. Hunter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906 at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles a revival began that set in motion a global movement that has affected half a billion people. In The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy, twenty writers, representing the international scholarship of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Renewal communities, reflect on the significance of the movement now and for the future.

Apostles Today

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Author : Benjamin G McNair Scott
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718842677
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Apostles Today written by Benjamin G McNair Scott and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2014-12-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are apostles amongst us today? According to a growing section of the church, the answer is yes. This book investigates and appraises the idea, seeking answers to the following questions in the context of the church in Britain and the USA: Is there arobust scriptural justification for the charismatic apostolate (CA) that most charismatic groups are proclaiming? How widespread is this belief and why has it become more commonplace? What kind of apostles are being advocated by influential popular teachers? What does church history and tradition have to offer to this idea? Is there a way to endorse and embrace the CA ecumenically? Does the CA have a future in the universal church? These are important questions to answer for the sake of the church's mission and health.

The Risk of Returning, Second Edition

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Author : Shirley Nelson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625649398
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Risk of Returning, Second Edition written by Shirley Nelson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Peterson, son of former missionaries to Guatemala, returns to that country to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance.

Aryan Cowboys

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Author : Evelyn A. Schlatter
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774842
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Aryan Cowboys written by Evelyn A. Schlatter and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last third of the twentieth century, white supremacists moved, both literally and in the collective imagination, from midnight rides through Mississippi to broadband-wired cabins in Montana. But while rural Montana may be on the geographical fringe of the country, white supremacist groups were not pushed there, and they are far from "fringe elements" of society, as many Americans would like to believe. Evelyn Schlatter's startling analysis describes how many of the new white supremacist groups in the West have co-opted the region's mythology and environment based on longstanding beliefs about American character and Manifest Destiny to shape an organic, home-grown movement. Dissatisfied with the urbanized, culturally progressive coasts, disenfranchised by affirmative action and immigration, white supremacists have found new hope in the old ideal of the West as a land of opportunity waiting to be settled by self-reliant traditional families. Some even envision the region as a potential white homeland. Groups such as Aryan Nations, The Order, and Posse Comitatus use controversial issues such as affirmative action, anti-Semitism, immigration, and religion to create sympathy for their extremist views among mainstream whites—while offering a "solution" in the popular conception of the West as a place of freedom, opportunity, and escape from modern society. Aryan Cowboys exposes the exclusionist message of this "American" ideal, while documenting its dangerous appeal.

An Effort of Inquiry

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Author : Larry Munger
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504971612
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book An Effort of Inquiry written by Larry Munger and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work digs into many questions with no firm answers. Simply reviewing the table of contents will show the many different questions that are looked into. In addition, there is additional history involved that may not be common knowledge to everybody. People have said I just love Joseph Smith and yet why? Did he break the law repeatedly, as is shown in this work? Was he morally correct? Did he engage in sexual unions with women who were married to other men at the same time? Did he simply copy other men in his area who claimed to have revelations from God? Why is his story of God appearing to him very similar to other mens claims that were already published in his own hometown? Did he really translate gold plates? Why did he deny he practiced polygamy while he was actually living in polygamy at the time?

The Whole Gospel for the Whole World

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Author : Phillip Douglas Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Living waters, conducted by S.M. Haughton

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Author : Samuel Michael Haughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Living waters, conducted by S.M. Haughton written by Samuel Michael Haughton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Holy Bible: Job to Solomon's song

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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