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Author: Paul Victor Publisher: First Edition Design Pub. ISBN: 1506907644 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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For more than 20 years, starting in the '60s, "experts" have been telling Americans how to become better people, how to be fulfilled, how to make a better society. Love, marriage, sex, travel, ascetics, games – it's the maze he had to work his way through. It isn't any easier if you're rich.
Author: Paul Victor Publisher: First Edition Design Pub. ISBN: 1506907644 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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For more than 20 years, starting in the '60s, "experts" have been telling Americans how to become better people, how to be fulfilled, how to make a better society. Love, marriage, sex, travel, ascetics, games – it's the maze he had to work his way through. It isn't any easier if you're rich.
Author: Lillian Taiz Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 080787566X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 268
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So strongly associated is the Salvation Army with its modern mission of service that its colorful history as a religious movement is often overlooked. In telling the story of the organization in America, Lillian Taiz traces its evolution from a working-class, evangelical religion to a movement that emphasized service as the path to salvation. When the Salvation Army crossed the Atlantic from Britain in 1879, it immediately began to adapt its religious culture to its new American setting. The group found its constituency among young, working-class men and women who were attracted to its intensely experiential religious culture, which combined a frontier-camp-meeting style with working-class forms of popular culture modeled on the saloon and theater. In the hands of these new recruits, the Salvation Army developed a remarkably democratic internal culture. By the turn of the century, though, as the Army increasingly attempted to attract souls by addressing the physical needs of the masses, the group began to turn away from boisterous religious expression toward a more "refined" religious culture and a more centrally controlled bureaucratic structure. Placing her focus on the membership of the Salvation Army and its transformation as an organization within the broader context of literature on class, labor, and women's history, Taiz sheds new light on the character of American working-class culture and religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: Mark R. Teasdale Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1620329166 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 293
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Powerful ideas have the capacity to inspire great good. They also have the capacity to prompt unspeakable acts of evil. The ideas of "America" and "the gospel" have been used for both. The situation was no different when the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) brought these two ideas together in its evangelistic work from 1860 to 1920, including during the Civil War and the First World War. Methodist Evangelism, American Salvation traces the MEC's home missions among African Americans and whites in the South; among Native Americans, Mexicans, and white settlers in the West; and among newly arrived immigrants, their children, the poor, and the rich in the East's burgeoning cities. It shows the innovative and courageous work of the MEC to improve the quality of life for these most marginalized populations in the United States. It also shows the fear the MEC had that these populations would overthrow American civilization if they did not conform to the values held by white, middle-class, native-born Americans.
Author: Kathryn Baker Kemp Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: 1643001116 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 126
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Enslaved Africans brought their music and religion with them to America. They adapted their spiritual worldview into the existing Christian framework for survival. The God of the oppressor was transformed into the God of liberation and justice. Salvation became the conduit for survival. Sacred song was embedded with African spirituality and African American theology to create a religious experience from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century that sustained African American people and became established forms of praise and worship. The Civil Rights movement changed the religious reality of African American people. Sacred song in the twenty- first century has many challenges. Will the legacy and heritage of sacred song survive?
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