Between Sundays
Author: Marla Frederick
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003-11-20
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0520233948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ethnographic study of the role of religion in the life of a southern rural community.
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Church and Estate
Author: Thomas F. Rzeznik
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2013-06-20
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0271063254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Church and Estate, Thomas Rzeznik examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s. The book demonstrates how their religious beliefs informed their actions and shaped their class identity, while simultaneously revealing the ways in which financial influences shaped the character of American religious life. In tracing those connections, it shows how religion and wealth shared a fruitful, yet ultimately tenuous, relationship.
Those Preachin' Women
Author: Ella Pearson Mitchell
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs with earlier editions, this volume contains inspirational sermons delivered by a stellar group of 25 dynamic African-American women in the pulpit. Includes a Foreword by Vashti McKenzie.
The American Midwest
Author: Andrew R. L. Cayton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006-11-08
Total Pages: 1918
ISBN-13: 0253003490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Roadside History
Author: Melba Porter Hay
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2002-04-06
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780916968298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky We have all spied them as we blast down I-75 scanning the roadside for anything of interest or rolled past one while trying to find an elusive gas station in an unfamiliar small town. Perhaps we have even stopped to read one outside the local courthouse. Since 1949, the Kentucky Historical Highway Marker program has erected more than 1,800 markers that highlight the rich diversity of the state's local and regional history as well as topics of statewide, and sometimes national, importance. They provide on-the-spot Kentucky history lessons, depicting subjects as diverse as a seven-year-old boy who served as a drummer in the Revolutionary War to a centuries-old sassafras tree. Roadside History is a key to the markers, enabling travelers to read Kentucky history without stopping to see each marker as they pass. There are two indexes arranged by subject and county.
American Book Publishing Record
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 676
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPassionately Human, No Less Divine
Author: Wallace D. Best
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0691133751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWallace D. Best examines the various ways black southerners transformed African American religion in Chicago during their 'Great Migration' northward.
Radio's Civic Ambition
Author: David Goodman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-04-12
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0199875227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn its golden age, American radio both entertained and also fostered programs meant to produce self-governing and opinion-forming individuals, promoting openness to change and tolerance of diversity, familiarity with classical music, and knowledge of world affairs. As author David Goodman argues, the ambitions of radio's golden age have strong significance today as evidence that media regulation in the public interest can have significant and often positive effects.
The Training of Youth
Author: Thomas W. Berry
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevelation
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Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 0857861018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
