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Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Minutes of the ... Session of the New York East Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Minutes of the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ... Session
Author: Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church
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Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Years 1773-1881
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. ConferencesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Minutes of the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: The Politics of Prohibition
Author: Lisa M. F. AndersenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107434432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition Party - drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F. Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial and personal resources from parties already lacking in both. More than most other minor parties, the Prohibition Party resisted an encroaching Democratic-Republican stranglehold over governance. When Prohibitionists found themselves excluded from elections, they devised a variety of tactics: they occupied saloons, pressed lawsuits, forged utopian communities, and organized dry consumers to solicit alcohol-free products.
Minutes Taken at the Several Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. ConferencesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Minutes of the Fifth Session of the Central New York Annual Conference
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382145995
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
God in Gotham
Author: Jon ButlerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674249720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity’s rationalism, bureaucratization, and professionalization seemingly eviscerated the sense of religious community. Yet fears of religion’s demise were dramatically overblown. Jon Butler finds a spiritual hothouse in the supposed capital of American secularism. By the 1950s Manhattan was full of the sacred. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants peppered the borough with sanctuaries great and small. Manhattan became a center of religious publishing and broadcasting and was home to august spiritual reformers from Reinhold Niebuhr to Abraham Heschel, Dorothy Day, and Norman Vincent Peale. A host of white nontraditional groups met in midtown hotels, while black worshippers gathered in Harlem’s storefront churches. Though denied the ministry almost everywhere, women shaped the lived religion of congregations, founded missionary societies, and, in organizations such as the Zionist Hadassah, fused spirituality and political activism. And after 1945, when Manhattan’s young families rushed to New Jersey and Long Island’s booming suburbs, they recreated the religious institutions that had shaped their youth. God in Gotham portrays a city where people of faith engaged modernity rather than foundered in it. Far from the world of “disenchantment” that sociologist Max Weber bemoaned, modern Manhattan actually birthed an urban spiritual landscape of unparalleled breadth, suggesting that modernity enabled rather than crippled religion in America well into the 1960s.
Evangelicals at a Crossroads
Author: Benjamin L. HartleyPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584659416
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The story of Boston revivalism and social reform