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Autor:
Andrew Lynn
Protestant orientations to work and economics have shaped wider American culture for several centuries. But not all strands of American Protestantism have elevated secular work to the highest echelons of spiritual significance. This book surveys the
Autor:
Jason C. Bivins
Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of the beliefs that has united these citizens is the idea that they are treated unfairly or are margina
Autor:
Philip S. Gorski, Samuel L. Perry
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a woo
Autor:
Christopher James Blythe
The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the Saints'exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military o
Autor:
Janine Giordano Drake
In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm.'Socialism,'he wrote,'has become a distinct substitute'for the church. He was not wrong. In the generation after the Civil War, few of the migr
Autor:
Cameron D. Clausing
Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854--1921) found himself between two eras. The end of the'long nineteenth century'and the experience of World War I marked how much the world around him had changed. This book examines Bavinck's theological methodolo
Autor:
Kathryn Dickason
In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages. Throughout the medieval era, the Latin Church denounced and prohibited dancing in religious and sec
Autor:
M. David Litwa
This book examines the origins of the evil creator idea chiefly in light of early Christian biblical interpretations. It is divided into two parts. In Part I, the focus is on the interpretations of Exodus and John. Firstly, ancient Egyptian assimilat
Autor:
Matthew D. Lundberg
What is the place-if any-for violence in the Christian life? At the core of Christian faith is an experience of suffering violence as the price for faithfulness, of being victimized by the world's violence, from Jesus himself to martyrs who have died
Autor:
Stephen Hampton
The Reformed Conformity that flourished within the Early Stuart English Church was a rich, vibrant, and distinctive theological tradition that has never before been studied in its own right. While scholars have observed how Reformed Conformists clash