Author: John Marsh
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: John Marsh
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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ISBN: 9780371710272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.

Author: Omri Elisha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520950542
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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In this evocative ethnography, Omri Elisha examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians as they engage socially with local communities. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, Moral Ambition reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and public prayer to highlight the ways that evangelicals at the grassroots of the Christian Right promote faith-based causes intended to improve the state of social welfare. The book shows how these ministries both help churchgoers embody religious virtues and create provocative new opportunities for evangelism on a public scale. Elisha challenges conventional views of U.S. evangelicalism as narrowly individualistic, elucidating instead the inherent contradictions that activists face in their efforts to reconcile religious conservatism with a renewed interest in compassion, poverty, racial justice, and urban revivalism.

Author: Larry L. Rasmussen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199986843
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 475

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Grand Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Book Awards Thoughtful observers agree that the planetary crisis we now face-climate change; species extinction; the destruction of entire ecosystems; the urgent need for a more just economic-political order-is pushing human civilization to a radical turning point: change or perish. But precisely how to change remains an open question. In Earth-honoring Faith, Larry Rasmussen answers that question with a dramatically new way of thinking about human society, ethics, and the ongoing health of our planet. Rejecting the modern assumption that morality applies to human society alone, Rasmussen insists that we must derive a spiritual and ecological ethic that accounts for the well-being of all creation, as well as the primal elements upon which it depends: earth, air, fire, water, and sunlight. He argues that good science, necessary as it is, will not be enough to inspire fundamental change. We must draw on religious resources as well to make the difficult transition from an industrial-technological age obsessed with consumption to an ecological age that restores wise stewardship of all life. Earth-honoring Faith advocates an alliance of spirituality and ecology, in which the material requirements for planetary life are reconciled with deep traditions of spirituality across religions, traditions that include mysticism, sacramentalism, prophetic practices, asceticism, and the cultivation of wisdom. It is these shared spiritual practices that can produce a chorus of world faiths to counter the consumerism, utilitarianism, alienation, oppression, and folly that have pushed us to the brink. Written with passionate commitment and deep insight, Earth-honoring Faith reminds us that we must live in the present with the knowledge that the eyes of future generations will look back at us.

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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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Includes section "Book reviews."