Author: Walter Scott AthearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Protestantism's Contribution to Character Building in a Democracy
Author: Walter Scott AthearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Character Building Through Literature
Author: Samuel Robert EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Character
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Character Building in a Democracy
Author: Walter Scott AthearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
International Journal of Religious Education
Author: The Christian Century
Author: The Minister and the Teacher
Author: Walter Scott AthearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Lutheran Church Quarterly
Author: Evangelicals and Democracy in America
Author: Steven G. BrintPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 0871540118
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
By the end of the nineteenth century, the vast majority of U.S. churches were evangelical in outlook and practice. America's turn toward modernism and embrace of science in the early twentieth century threatened evangelicalism's cultural prominence. But as confidence in modern secularism wavered in the 1960s and 1970s, evangelicalism had another great awakening. The two volumes of Evangelicals and Democracy in America trace the development and current role of evangelicalism in American social and political life. Volume I focuses on who evangelicals are today, how they relate to other groups, and what role they play in U.S. social institutions. Part I of Religion and Society examines evangelicals' identity and activism. Contributor Robert Wuthnow explores the identity built around the centrality of Jesus, church and community service, and the born-again experience. Philip Gorski explores the features of American evangelicalism and society that explain the recurring mobilization of conservative Protestants in American history. Part II looks at how evangelicals relate to other key groups in American society. Individual chapters delve into evangelicals' relationship to other conservative religious groups, women and gays, African Americans, and mainline Protestants. These chapters show sources of both solidarity and dissension within the "traditionalist alliance" and the hidden strengths of mainline Protestants' moral discourse. Part III examines religious conservatives' influence on American social institutions outside of politics. W. Bradford Wilcox, David Sikkink, Gabriel Rossman, and Rogers Smith investigate evangelicals' influence on families, schools, popular culture, and the courts, respectively. What emerges is a picture of American society as a consumer marketplace with a secular legal structure and an arena of pluralistic competition interpreting what constitutes the public good. These chapters show that religious conservatives have been shaped by these realities more than they have been able to shape them. Evangelicals and Democracy in America, Volume I is one of the most comprehensive examinations ever of this important current in American life and serves as a corrective to erroneous popular representations. These meticulously balanced studies not only clarify the religious and social origins of evangelical mobilization, but also detail both the scope and limits of evangelicals' influence in our society. This volume is the perfect complement to its companion in this landmark series, Evangelicals and Democracy in America, Volume II: Religion and Politics.
Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe
Author: Jaime Luciano BalmesPublisher:
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Category : Christian civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism
Author: Milan ZafirovskiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387493212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on Puritanism’s original, subsequent and modern influences on and legacies in political democracy and civil society within historically Puritan Western societies. There is emphasis on Great Britain and particularly America, from the 17th to the 21st century.