Author: James Shepard DennisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Christian Missions and Social Progress
Author: James Shepard DennisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Herald of Progress
Author: Christian Missions and Social Progress: Lecture 6, continued : the contribution of Christian missions to social progress
Author: James Shepard DennisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
"The Students' Lectures on Missions at Princeton Theological Seminary, which form the basis of the book now issued, were delivered by the author in the spring of 1896"--Preface.
Hospital Progress
Author: Cities of the World
Author: Edwin HodderThe Paradox of Progress
Author: Martin J. HershockPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821415131
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
"Martin Hershock traces the ways in which all classes in the state of Michigan found themselves simultaneously attracted to the enticements of the new world of the market and repulsed by its excess and instability. The Paradox of Progress is a study of Michigan history and politics as well as an analysis of the factors underlying the history of the GOP and its evolution from the party that supported the antislavery movement, free soil, free labor, and Lincoln the Rail-Splitter into the party of Mark Hanna, J.P. Morgan, and William McKinley."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab
Author: Yogesh SnehiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429515634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals and their complex narratives, and provides an insight into their urban and rural landscapes in the post-Partition (Indian) Punjab. What happened to these shrines when attempts were made to dissuade Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus from their veneration of popular saints in the early twentieth century? What was the fate of popular shrines that persisted even when the Muslim population was virtually wiped off as a result of migration during Partition? How did these shrines manifest in the context of the threat posed by militants in the 1980s? How did such popular practices reconfigure themselves when some important centres of Sufism were left behind in the West Punjab (now Pakistan)? This book examines several of these questions and utilizes a combination of analytical tools, new theoretical tropes and an ethnographic approach to understand and situate popular Sufi shrines so that they are both historicized and spatialized. As such, it lays out some crucial contours of the method and practice of understanding popular sacred spaces (within India and elsewhere), bridging the everyday and the metanarratives of power structures and state formation. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers and those engaged in interdisciplinary work in history, social anthropology, historical sociology, cultural studies, historical geography, religion and art history, as well as those interested in Sufism and its shrines in South Asia.
Shrines and Miraculous Images
Author: William B. TaylorPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826348556
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The vast literature on Our Lady of Guadalupe dominates the study of shrines and religious practices in Mexico. But there is much more to the story of shrines and images in Mexico’s religious history than Guadalupe and Marian devotion. In this book a distinguished historian brings together his new and recent essays on previously unstudied or reconsidered places, themes, patterns, and episodes in Mexican religious history during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. William Taylor explores the use of local and regional shrines as well as devotion to images of Christ and Mary, including Our Lady of Guadalupe, to get to the heart of the politics and practices of faith in Mexico before the Reforma. Each of these essays touches on methodological and conceptual matters that open out to processes and paradoxes of change and continuity, exposing the symbolic complexity behind the material representations.
Islamism: Its Rise and Its Progress
Author: Fred Arthur NealePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islamic Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Vernacular Veda
Author: Vasudha NarayananPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872499652
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Compares the religious poem "Tiruvaymoli" alongside the "Vedas."