Author: Robert Jamieson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Author: J Gordon Melton
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578592305
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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An inspiring and fascinating look at people’s religious experiences and beliefs. Visions of Mary and glimpses of God. Miraculous apparitions witnessed by hundreds in parking lots, along freeways, and at the world’s holiest sites. Weeping statues, exorcisms, near-death experiences, mystical labyrinths, and more than 250 other unusual and unexplained phenomena, apparitions, and extraordinary experiences rooted in religious beliefs are explored in The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena. J. Gordon Melton, the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at the Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, takes readers on a tour among angels, Marian apparitions, and religious figures such as Jesus, the Buddha, Muhammad, and Tao Tzu. Melton reports on dreams, feng shui, statues that bleed, snake handling, speaking in tongues, stigmata, relics—including the Spear of Longinus and the Shroud of Turin—and sacred locales such as Easter Island, the Glastonbury Tor, the Great Pyramids, Mecca, Sedona, and much more. Each entry includes a description of a particular phenomenon and the religious claims being made about it as well as a discussion of what scientists say about it. Transcending the mundane, the entries take no sides on who is right or wrong: the journey is the experience and the experience is the journey. This fascinating encyclopedia is illustrated with 100 pictures and includes a detailed index and additional reading recommendations. It lets you experience the marvels of weeping statues and icons; exorcisms and ecstasy; the grilled cheese sandwich kit for making your own Virgin Mary image; and so much more.

Author: Elihu Rich
Publisher: London : R. Griffin
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 896

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Author: Michael J. McClymond
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 9780313328282
Category : Revivals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Covers all of the major aspects of religious revivals in the United States, from the Great Awakening of the 17th Century to the present day.

Author: Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761927298
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1529

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Presents entries A to L of a two-volume encyclopedia discussing religion around the globe, including biographies, concepts and theories, places, social issues, movements, texts, and traditions.

Author: Elihu Rich
Publisher: London : R. Griffin
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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Author: Peter Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134499698
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 921

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New Religious Movements (NRMs) can involve vast numbers of followers and in many cases are radically changing the way people understand and practice religion and spirituality. Moreover, many are having a profound impact on the form and content of mainstream religion. The Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements provides uniquely global coverage of the phenomenon, with entries on over three-hundred movement from almost every country in the world. Coverage includes movements that derive from the major religions of the world and to neo-traditional movements, movements often overlooked in the study of NRMs. In addition to the coverage of particular movements there are also entries on topics, themes, key thinkers and key ideas, for example the New Age Movement, Neo-Paganism, New Religion and gender, NRMs and cyberspace, NRMs and the law, the Anti-Cult Movement, Swedenborg, Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, Lovelock, Gurdjieff, al-Banna, Qutb. The marked global approach and comprehensiveness of the encyclopedia enable an appreciation of the innovative energy of NRMs, of their extraordinary diversity, and the often surprising ways in which they can propagate geographically. The most ambitions publication of its sort, the Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements is a major addition to the reference literature for students and researchers of the field in religious studies and the social sciences. Entries are cross-referenced with short bibliographies for further reading. There is a full index.

Author: Erwin Louis Lueker
Publisher: St. Louis : Concordia Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 924

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This volume treats important aspects of the thought and life of the church. It includes the following areas: Bible interpretation, systematic theology, church history, life and worship in the church.--from the preface.

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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Elizabeth M. Dowling
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761928839
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 553

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Focuses on the developmental process of religion and spirituality across the human life span.This encyclopedia joins a recent trend in research and scholarship aimed at better understanding the similarities and differences between world religions and spiritualities, between expressions of the divine and between experiences of the transcendent.