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Material Christianity

Author : Colleen McDannell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074994
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Material Christianity written by Colleen McDannell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the religious objects used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans tell us about American Christianity? What is the relationship between the beliefs of the faithful and the landscapes they build? This lavishly illustrated book investigates the history and meaning of Christian material culture in America over the last 150 years. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons, Colleen McDannell examines the relationship between religion and mass consumption. She describes examples of nineteenth-century religious practice: Victorians burying their dead in cultivated cemetery parks; Protestants producing and displaying elaborate family Bibles; Catholics writing for special water from Lourdes reputed to have miraculous powers. And she looks at today's Christians: Mormons wearing sacred underclothing as a reminder of their religious promises, Catholics debating the design of tasteful churches, and Protestants manufacturing, marketing, and using a vast array of prints, clothing, figurines, jewelry, and toys that some label "Jesus junk" but that others see as a witness to their faith. McDannell claims that previous studies of American Christianity have overemphasized the written, cognitive, and ethical dimensions of religion, presenting faith as a disembodied system of beliefs. She shifts attention from the church and the theological seminary to the workplace, home, cemetery, and Sunday school, highlighting a different Christianity--one in which average Christians experience the divine, the nature of death, the power of healing, and the meaning of community through interacting with a created world of devotional images, environments, and objects.

Popular Christianity

Author : Frederick Joseph Foxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Popular Christianity written by Frederick Joseph Foxton and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Tapestry of Faiths

Author : Winfried Corduan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172522626X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Tapestry of Faiths written by Winfried Corduan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians find themselves in an increasingly diverse world. The new place of worship in our neighborhood might just as likely be a Hindu temple or a Muslim mosque as a church or a synagogue. How should we view other world religions, and more important, how should we engage our religiously oriented neighbors in conversation? Do all religions teach the same thing? Or are there significant differences? Do we try to minimize differences and just get along? Or do we hold out the Christian faith as the one true hope for all the world? Drawing on his wide experience and knowledge of other religions and how they are actually lived, Winfried Corduan helps us sort through the complex tapestry of faiths around the globe. He contends that there are common threads of understanding that can serve to link us in meaningful discussion. From these common threads we can go on to explore genuine differences. Through the course of the book, Corduan leads readers to explore the important issues of revelation and truth, morality and guilt, grace and redemption, eschatology and hope. Ultimately, Jesus Christ, he argues, stands unique among religious figures and Christianity unique among the world's religions. This is a book that strengthens Christians in their convictions while encouraging them to engage their neighbors with humility, loved, and discernment.

Popular Christianity in India

Author : Selva J. Raj
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487814
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Popular Christianity in India written by Selva J. Raj and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Christianity in India explores Indian Christianity as crafted and expressed through lived experience, providing an important balance to currently available, typically theological, studies. Drawing from many disciplines, this volume unearths the multifaceted terrain of festivals, rituals, saints, miracle workers, missionaries, and visionaries in Christian India, providing a wonderful glimpse of its richness and complexities. The contributors reveal the ways in which local Christian traditions deftly challenge assumed divisions and power imbalances between East and West, Hindu and Christian, foreign and indigenous, and elite and local expressions. Whether forging complicated religious, caste, and national identities, employing religious hybridity to promote well-being, or asserting autonomy within oppressive social and religious structures, local Christianity provides a crucial means for its participants to manage their earthly needs and desires.

Godly Heretics

Author : Marc DiPaolo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602409
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Godly Heretics written by Marc DiPaolo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When computers freeze, they are "rebooted" and soon working properly again. Similarly, legendary thinkers throughout history have argued that Christianity should start fresh by recapturing the humanitarian spirit of Jesus' original message. These include such disparate individuals as Thomas Jefferson, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leo Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, and the religious leaders of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Surprisingly enough, even classic television shows and films meant to be entertaining--Lost, Battlestar Galactica, It's a Wonderful Life, Groundhog Day, Decalogue, and A Charlie Brown Christmas--are attempts to apply the basic principles of Christianity to modern times. This book offers new essays by scholars of literature, film, history, theology and philosophy examining how various thinkers and storytellers over time have conceived of a reinvented Christianity. In confronting this controversial idea, this book examines how unorthodox interpretations of the Bible can be some of the most valid, how visions of Jesus as a revolutionary may be the most historically sound, and how compassionate Christians such as Origen have wrestled with the eternal questions of the existence of evil, the gift of free will and the promise of universal salvation.

A Theology for the Social Gospel

Author : Walter Rauschenbusch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Theology for the Social Gospel written by Walter Rauschenbusch and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Redeemed by Fire

Author : Lian, Xi
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300123396
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Redeemed by Fire written by Lian, Xi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text addresses the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a collection of sources, the author traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in the 20th-century China from a small 'missionary' church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous opular religion energized by nationalism.

The Popular Encyclopedia of Church History

Author : Ed Hindson
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736948066
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Popular Encyclopedia of Church History written by Ed Hindson and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Announcing the newest release in our well-received Popular Encyclopedia series—The Popular Encyclopedia of Church History, an ideal resource for anyone who want a clear, user-friendly guide to understanding the key people, places, and events that shaped Christianity. General editors Ed Hindson and Dan Mitchell have extensive experience with producing reference works that combine expert scholarship and popular accessibility. Together with a broad range of well-qualified contributors, they have put together what is sure to become a standard must-have for both Bible teachers and students. With nearly 300 articles across 400 pages, readers will enjoy... a comprehensive panorama of church history from Acts 2 to today a clear presentation of how the church and its teachings have developed concise biographies of major Christian figures and their contributions fascinating overviews of key turning points in church history This valuable resource will enrich believers’ appreciation for the wonderful heritage behind their Christian faith.

Popular Christianity in India

Author : Selva J. Raj
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791455197
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Popular Christianity in India written by Selva J. Raj and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.

The Slain God

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191632058
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Slain God written by Timothy Larsen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never before been the subject of a book-length study. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.

Popular Religion in Late Saxon England

Author : Karen Louise Jolly
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469611147
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Popular Religion in Late Saxon England written by Karen Louise Jolly and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tenth- and eleventh-century England, Anglo-Saxon Christians retained an old folk belief in elves as extremely dangerous creatures capable of harming unwary humans. To ward off the afflictions caused by these invisible beings, Christian priests modified traditional elf charms by adding liturgical chants to herbal remedies. In Popular Religion in Late Saxon England, Karen Jolly traces this cultural intermingling of Christian liturgy and indigenous Germanic customs and argues that elf charms and similar practices represent the successful Christianization of native folklore. Jolly describes a dual process of conversion in which Anglo-Saxon culture became Christianized but at the same time left its own distinct imprint on Christianity. Illuminating the creative aspects of this dynamic relationship, she identifies liturgical folk medicine as a middle ground between popular and elite, pagan and Christian, magic and miracle. Her analysis, drawing on the model of popular religion to redefine folklore and magic, reveals the richness and diversity of late Saxon Christianity.

Pilgrim Church

Author : William J. Bausch
Publisher : Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780896223950
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrim Church written by William J. Bausch and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The more I listen to people, the more I lecture, the more I realize how wide is the gap between the people's understanding of the Church and the Church's historical realities." [Introduction] The author seeks to close this gap by critically exploring such areas as: the rich variety of ministries in the early Church; the Crusades; the piety of the Middle Ages; the challenge of the Reformation; the role of the pope; the rise, fall and recent reinstatement of the diaconate; the changing role of women in the Church; and the origins of various liturgies and popular devotions.

The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity

Author : Alex McFarland
Publisher : Gospel Light Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780830742981
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity written by Alex McFarland and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society today has a growing number of objections and concerns regarding Christianity. Why does a loving God let bad things happen? Would God really send someone to hell? And why is Christianity right and other religions are in error? Many Christians hear objections to Christianity and have a crisis of faith. Enter Alex McFarland, a seasoned apologist who is ready to explore 10 common objections to Christianity. He offers straight answers that will give them confidence and understanding about their beliefs. After reading this book, all Christians will know how to effectively answer the most common objections to Christianity, why they believe what they believe and be prepared to defend their faith and worldview.

Colonization and Christianity

Author : William Howitt
Publisher : London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Colonization and Christianity written by William Howitt and published by London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans. This book was released on 1838 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Popologetics

Author : Ted Turnau
Publisher : P & R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781596383890
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book Popologetics written by Ted Turnau and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's everywhere...all around us...so widespread it's almost part of the air we breathe. Some people love it, some people hate it, and some try to shrug it off or pretend it's not there. But, like it or not, notice it or not, popular culture plays a huge role in our day-to-day lives, often influencing the way we think and see the world. Some people respond by trying to pull away from it altogether, and some accept it without question as a blessing. But Ted Turnau reminds us that the issue is not so black-and-white. Popular culture, like any other facet of society, is a messy mixture of both grace and idolatry, and it deserves our serious attention and discernment. Learn how to approach popular culture wisely, separating its gems of grace from its temptations toward idolatry, and practice some popologetics to be an influence of your own. Book jacket.

Redefining Christianity

Author : Bob DeWaay
Publisher : Carpenters Son Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780977196432
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Redefining Christianity written by Bob DeWaay and published by Carpenters Son Pub. This book was released on 2006-01-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book examines The Purpose Driven Church, The Purpose Driven Life, and the business system that Rick Warren has developed to promote it around the world. He looks carefully at his claims, his use of scripture, his integration of human wisdom with scripture, and his ability to get thousands of pastors to convert from expository Bible preaching to being Purpose Driven. In the end he compares Rick Warren's version of "church health" with that of Jesus Christ. The reader will see how Rick Warren has indeed redefined Christianity. About the Author

A People's History of Christianity

Author : Denis R. Janz
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 145147024X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book A People's History of Christianity written by Denis R. Janz and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On its release, the seven volume A Peoples History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Now, the essential material from that important project is available for classroom use. Each volume contains careful s