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Author : F.E. Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780570032946
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Religions Bodies of America written by F.E. Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1968-06-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes most religious bodies to help readers understand what each church body believes and practices.
Author : Frederick Emanuel Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Religious Bodies of America written by Frederick Emanuel Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elliott Abrams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585381658
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Influence of Faith written by Elliott Abrams and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realists have long argued that the international system must be based on hard calculations of power and interest. But in recent years, religion's role on the international scene has grown. The Influence of Faith examines religion as a growing factor in world politics and U.S. foreign policy. Particular attention is placed on the American reaction to the persecution of Christians and Jews overseas, as well as the role of faith-based groups such as missionary and relief organizations in the formulation and implementation of U.S. policy. The Influence of Faith considers these timely issues from diverse points of view, offering broad historical analysis as well as concrete examples taken from current affairs.
Author : F. E. Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758606822
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Religious Bodies of America written by F. E. Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Emanuel Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Religious Bodies of America written by Frederick Emanuel Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes most religious bodies to help readers understand what each church body believes and practices.
Author : F. E. Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book THE RELIGIOUS BODIES OF AMERICA written by F. E. Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Ellwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315507234
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America written by Robert Ellwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the major new or unconventional religions and spiritual movements in America that exist outside the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religious Leaders of America written by J. Gordon Melton and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1999 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference by noted scholar J. Gordon Melton provides more than 1,200 detailed biographical profiles of the contemporary and historical men and women responsible for influencing American religion. Features a comprehensive index and a religious affiliation appendix.
Author : Frederick Emanuel MAYER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Religious Bodies of America ... Fourth Edition, Revised by Arthur Carl Piepkorn written by Frederick Emanuel MAYER and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135523533
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Religious Bodies in the U.S. written by J. Gordon Melton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. This title is the first volume in the 3-volume series titled Religious Information Systems Series. This updated directory recognised that the number of religious groups would not remain static as population increases, urbanization, and immigration continue to provide a nurturing environment for new religious expressions. This new edition will fill an information gap and provide basic data about each religious group and be regularly updated as changes in the religious community dictate (annually or bi-annually).
Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Directory of Religious Bodies in the United States written by J. Gordon Melton and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1977 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religious Bodies, 1936: Summary and detailed tables written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837243
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United States as a Christian society. How are we adapting to the new diversity? Do we casually announce that we "respect" the faiths of non-Christians without understanding much about those faiths? Are we willing to do the hard work required to achieve genuine religious pluralism? Award-winning author Robert Wuthnow tackles these and other difficult questions surrounding religious diversity and does so with his characteristic rigor and style. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity looks not only at how we have adapted to diversity in the past, but at the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are responding today. Drawing from a new national survey and hundreds of in-depth qualitative interviews, this book is the first systematic effort to assess how well the nation is meeting the current challenges of religious and cultural diversity. The results, Wuthnow argues, are both encouraging and sobering--encouraging because most Americans do recognize the right of diverse groups to worship freely, but sobering because few Americans have bothered to learn much about religions other than their own or to engage in constructive interreligious dialogue. Wuthnow contends that responses to religious diversity are fundamentally deeper than polite discussions about civil liberties and tolerance would suggest. Rather, he writes, religious diversity strikes us at the very core of our personal and national theologies. Only by understanding this important dimension of our culture will we be able to move toward a more reflective approach to religious pluralism.
Author : Michael I. Meyerson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183496
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Endowed by Our Creator written by Michael I. Meyerson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over the framers' concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and others. Legal scholar Michael I. Meyerson investigates how the framers of the Constitution envisioned religious freedom and how they intended it to operate in the new republic. Endowed by Our Creator shows that the framers understood that the American government should not acknowledge religion in a way that favors any particular creed or denomination. Nevertheless, the framers believed that religion could instill virtue and help to unify a diverse nation. They created a spiritual public vocabulary, one that could communicate to all—including agnostics and atheists—that they were valued members of the political community. Through their writings and their decisions, the framers affirmed that respect for religious differences is a fundamental American value, Meyerson concludes. Now it is for us to determine whether religion will be used to alienate and divide or to inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation.
Author : Anna Fedele
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452088
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices written by Anna Fedele and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of the social group they were studying. The influence of the Cartesian dualism of body and mind (or soul) led to a distinction between non-material, spiritual experiences (i.e., related to the soul) and physical, mechanical experiences (i.e., related to the body). However, recent developments in medical science on the one hand and challenges to universalist conceptions of belief and spirituality on the other have resulted in “body” and “soul” losing the reassuring solid contours they had in the past. Yet, in “Western culture,” the body–soul duality is alive, not least in academic and media discourses. This volume pursues the ongoing debates and discusses the importance of the body and how it is perceived in contemporary religious faith: what happens when “body” and “soul” are un-separated entities? Is it possible, even for anthropologists and ethnographers, to escape from “natural dualism”? The contributors here present research in novel empirical contexts, the benefits and limits of the old dichotomy are discussed, and new theoretical strategies proposed.
Author : R. Laurence Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019536399X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans written by R. Laurence Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-12-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the curious compulsion to stress Protestant dominance in America's past, this book takes an unorthodox look at religious history in America. Rather than focusing on the usual mainstream Protestant churches--Episcopal, Congregationalist, Methodist, Baptist, and Lutheran--Moore instead turns his attention to the equally important "outsiders" in the American religious experience and tests the realities of American religious pluralism against their history in America. Through separate but interrelated chapters on seven influential groups of "outsiders"--the Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists, Millennialists, 20th-century Protestant Fundamentalists, and the African-American churches--Moore shows that what was going on in mainstream churches may not have been the "normal" religious experience at all, and that many of these "outside" groups embodied values that were, in fact, quintessentially American.
Author : James D. Davidson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442208554
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Ranking Faiths written by James D. Davidson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranking Faiths: Religious Stratification in America discusses how religion shapes access to power, privilege, and prestige in the U.S., both historically and today. James D. Davidson and Ralph E. Pyle dispel the idea that the U.S. was founded on the principle of religious equality for all, documenting how religion has been a factor in the allocation of power from the colonial period through the present. From the time of the earliest settlements in America through today, the book demonstrates that some religious groups have had more access to economic, political, and social rewards than others, and they have benefited from laws and customs that have maintained religious inequality over time. While a few religious groups, such as Catholics and Jews, have experienced significant upward mobility over time, the social status of most has remained remarkably static over time. The book shows how religious inequalities developed, highlight where they remain in society today, and discuss what Americans can and should do about it.
