Author: Lyman BeecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils, and Remedy of Intemperance
Author: Lyman BeecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Welfare Reform in the Early Republic
Author: Seth RockmanPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478622628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
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Hinduism Before Reform
Author: Brian A. HatcherPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674988221
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A bold retelling of the origins of contemporary Hinduism, and an argument against the long-established notion of religious reform. By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline, and the East India Company was making inroads into the subcontinent. A century later Christian missionaries, Hindu teachers, Muslim saints, and Sikh rebels formed the colorful religious fabric of colonial India. Focusing on two early nineteenth-century Hindu communities, the Brahmo Samaj and the Swaminarayan Sampraday, and their charismatic figureheads—the “cosmopolitan” Rammohun Roy and the “parochial” Swami Narayan—Brian Hatcher explores how urban and rural people thought about faith, ritual, and gods. Along the way he sketches a radical new view of the origins of contemporary Hinduism and overturns the idea of religious reform. Hinduism Before Reform challenges the rigid structure of revelation-schism-reform-sect prevalent in much history of religion. Reform, in particular, plays an important role in how we think about influential Hindu movements and religious history at large. Through the lens of reform, one doctrine is inevitably backward-looking while another represents modernity. From this comparison flows a host of simplistic conclusions. Instead of presuming a clear dichotomy between backward and modern, Hatcher is interested in how religious authority is acquired and projected. Hinduism Before Reform asks how religious history would look if we eschewed the obfuscating binary of progress and tradition. There is another way to conceptualize the origins and significance of these two Hindu movements, one that does not trap them within the teleology of a predetermined modernity.
American Phrenological Journal
Author: How the Other Half Lives
Author: Jacob RiisPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 145850042X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Age of Reform
Author: Richard HofstadterPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307809641
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent historian comes a landmark in American political thought that examines the passion for progress and reform during 1890 to 1940. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms 1906–1914
Author: J R HayPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349069418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
This study examines the different approaches of social scientists and historians to the origins of social welfare legislation between 1906 and 1914. From this critical review Mr Hay shows how the Liberal legislation can be seen as one example of a process common to advanced industrial societies. He outlines the fundamental economic, political, ideological and institutional pressures for reform, analyses recent research on each aspect and demonstrates the importance of the conversion of a significant proportion of the ruling elite to acceptance of the value of social legislation. The individual reforms are examined and assessment made of the particular influences which were important in each case. Mr Hay concludes that the origins of the Liberal social legislation are not to be found in piecemeal remedies for specific social problems nor in the vision of a few influential individuals. There were, he shows, competing proposals for social reform at the turn of the century. Part of the problem is to explain why the Liberal solutions were adopted, but he poses the more fundamental question: Why were all the various proposals under discussion? In answer, he points out that Liberal social reform was only one part of a search for ways of preserving British society from internal and external challenges.
Christianity Through the Ages
Author: Kenneth Scott LatourettePublisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Here is an attempt to tell in brief compass the history of Christianity. Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind. Both that spread and that rootage have been mounting in the past 150 years and especially in the present century. The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene. - Preface.
Union Prayer-Book for Jewish Worship
Author: Central Conference of American RabbisPublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344078477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description