Author: Michael Eric EnghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Frontier Religion in an Era of Transition
Author: Michael Eric EnghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
America's Religions
Author: Peter W. WilliamsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209770X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
A classroom perennial and comprehensive guide, America's Religions lays out the background, beliefs, practices, and leaders of the nation's religious movements and denominations. The fourth edition, thoroughly revised and updated by Peter W. Williams, draws on the latest scholarship. In addition to reconsidering the history of America's mainline faiths, it delves into contemporary issues like religion's impact on politics and commerce; the increasingly high profile of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam; Mormonism's entry into the mainstream; and battles over gay marriage and ordination.
Religion and the American Experience, 1620-1900
Author: Annette BlumPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This bibliography is a comprehensive record of doctoral dissertations on religion and American society. Included are 4,240 citations for dissertations written through June 1991. Each work discusses the historical dimension of America's religious experience between 1620 and 1900, and the bibliography provides order numbers for all dissertations available from University Microfilms, Inc. In addition to biographical and denominational studies, the volume contains citations on communal societies, fraternal orders, literature, pragmatism, science, slavery, and temperance. Also included are titles pertaining to church-affiliated institutions of higher education. A preface overviews the scope of the work, criteria for inclusion, and research methodology. A section of bibliographic entries for denominations and movements follows. Entries in this section are grouped in clusters for particular movements and denominations, and the clusters are arranged alphabetically for ease of use. The next section contains bibliographic entries arranged in topical clusters, with topics presented in alphabetical order. The volume concludes with detailed author and subject indexes.
Doctoral Dissertations in History
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Readings in the Theory of Religion
Author: Scott S. ElliottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131547560X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
'Readings in the Theory of Religion' brings together classic and contemporary texts to promote new ways of thinking about religion. The texts reflect the diverse methods used in the study of religion: text and textuality; ritual; the body; gender and sexuality; religion and race; religion and colonialism; and methodological and theoretical issues in the study of religion. 'Readings in the Theory of Religion' is an indispensable introduction to theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches in religious studies and provides the student with all the tools needed to understand this fascinating and wide-ranging field.
Doctoral Dissertations on Asia
Author: Media and Migration
Author: Russell KingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134584040
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This title explores the close and vital relationship between the contemporary media and immigration. Drawing on newspapers, magazines, film, television and photography, the contributors examine the effects of mass media on migration behaviour and ethnic identity. Using examples from a range of countries, Media and Migration illustrates how the media intervenes to affect the reception migrants receive, how it stimulates prospective migrants to move and how it plays a dynamic role in the cultural politics and cultural identity of diasporic communities.
Guide to Departments of History
Author: American Historical Association. Institutional Services ProgramPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Mormonism in Transition
Author: Thomas G. AlexanderPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
Author: Benno WeinerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501749412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Employing previously inaccessible local archives as well as other rare primary sources, he demonstrates that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community. As Weiner shows, however, early efforts to gradually and organically transform a vast multiethnic empire into a singular nation-state lost out to a revolutionary impatience, demanding more immediate paths to national integration and socialist transformation. This led in 1958 to communization, then to large-scale rebellion and its brutal pacification. Rather than joining voluntarily, Amdo was integrated through the widespread, often indiscriminate use of violence, a violence that lingers in the living memory of Amdo Tibetans and others.