St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Lowell, Massachusetts
Author: St. Anne's Church (Lowell, Mass.)
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 39
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Author: St. Anne's Church (Lowell, Mass.)
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 39
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Hempton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0198798075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early twenty-first century it had become a clich that there was a "God Gap" between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. The apparent religious differences between the United States and western Europe continue to be a focus of intense and sometimes bitter debate between three of the main schools in the sociology of religion. According to the influential "Secularization Thesis," secularization has been an integral part of the processes of modernization in the Western world since around 1800. For proponents of this thesis, the United States appears as an anomaly and they accordingly give considerable attention to explaining why it is different. For other sociologists, however, the apparently high level of religiosity in the USA provides a major argument in their attempts to refute the Thesis. Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World provides a systematic comparison between the religious histories of the United States and western European countries from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, noting parallels as well as divergences, examining their causes and especially highlighting change over time. This is achieved by a series of themes which seem especially relevant to this agenda, and in each case the theme is considered by two scholars. The volume examines whether American Christians have been more innovative, and if so how far this explains the apparent "God Gap." It goes beyond the simple American/European binary to ask what is "American" or "European" in the Christianity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in what ways national or regional differences outweigh these commonalities.
Author: Clifton Hartwell Brewer
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 410
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lowell Historic Canal District Commission
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian Christopher Thompson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0773584161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was the first Canadian-born musician to achieve an international reputation. While primarily remembered for the national anthem, Lavallée and his work extended well beyond Canada, and he played a multitude of roles in North American music as a composer, conductor, administrator, instrumentalist, educator, and critic. In Anthems and Minstrel Shows, Brian Thompson analyzes Lavallée’s music, letters, and published writings, as well as newspapers and music magazines of the time, to provide a detailed account of musical life in nineteenth-century North America and the relationship between music and nation. Leaving Quebec at age sixteen, Lavallée travelled widely for a decade as musical director of a minstrel troupe, and spent a year as a bandsman in the Union Army. Later, as a performer and conductor, he built a repertoire that prepared audiences for the intellectually challenging music of European composers and new music by his US contemporaries. His own music extended from national songs to comic operas, and instrumental music, as he shifted between the worlds of classical and popular music. Previously portrayed as a humble French Canadian forced into exile by ignorance and injustice, Lavallée emerges here as ambitious, radical, bohemian, and fully engaged with the musical, social, and political currents of his time. While nationalism and nation-building are central to this story, Anthems and Minstrel Shows asks to which nation – or nations – Lavallée and “O Canada” really belong.
Author: Episcopal Church. Diocese of Massachusetts. Convention
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 940
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