Author: Kenneth B. BedellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780687466474
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, 1992
Author: Kenneth B. BedellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780687466474
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches
Author: Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2003
Author: Eileen W. LindnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780687074662
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Provides a wealth of information about North American churches. The Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, 2003 is the 18th edition of an annual compilation of key information about denominations, churches, clergy, seminaries, and other religious organizations in the United States and Canada. The volume provides membership and financial statistics, descriptions of denominations, contact information for denominational offices, historical data, a directory of theological schools and ecumenical agencies, a calendar of religious holidays and festivals, and a listing of religious periodicals. The Yearbook is published with the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The editorial focus for this volume is "Megachurches: How Do They Count?" As in earlier volumes, the major portion of the book consists of statistical information, names and addresses, and brief descriptive paragraphs on various organizations. The 18th edition of the Yearbook again includes both a print and an online component. The database features full-text search capability with additional search queries and will be updated periodically throughout the year.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Author: A New Kind of Church
Author: Aubrey MalphursPublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441200525
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
There is no shortage of books these days on new ways of "doing church." New church models have been both warmly embraced and roundly criticized. What are church leaders and others concerned about the state of the church to make of all this? Does the Bible prescribe a standard model for doing church? Or is there freedom within certain guidelines? In A New Kind of Church, respected church consultant Aubrey Malphurs addresses these important questions and suggests that there is room for new ways of doing ministry while being true to Scripture. In the process, he offers a theological and interpretive framework for evaluating any church model, new or old. He also offers suggestions for implementing change in the local church.
Chasing Down a Rumor
Author: Robert BacherPublisher: Augsburg Books
ISBN: 9781451412499
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Are the denominations really dying? Two experienced church "watchers" who have lived the question on a daily basis provide statistics, insights, and hope that the rumor is premature.
Cold War America, 1946 To 1990
Author: Facts on File IncPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438107986
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Uses statistical tables, charts, photographs, maps, and illustrations to explore everyday life in the United States during the Cold War period.
Statistical Reference Index
Author: Faith, Morality, and Civil Society
Author: Peter Augustine LawlerPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073915494X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In this rich collection of essays, editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society. Though the level of religious expression has remained high in the United States, the shift from traditional religious beliefs to a far more individualized style of faith has led many to contend that no faith commitment, collective or personal, should contribute to the vibrancy of a civil democratic society. Challenging those who believe that the private realm is the only appropriate locus of religious belief, the contributors to this volume believe that religion can inform and invigorate the secular institutions of society such as education, economics, and politics. Drawn from a wide variety of religious and moral traditions, these diverse essays show, from many perspectives, the important contribution religion has to make in the public square that is civil society.
Knowledge and Memory: the Real Story
Author: Robert S. Wyer, Jr.Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317781007
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Narrative forms of mental representation and their influence on comprehension, communication and judgment, have rapidly become one of the main foci of research and theory in not only psychology but also other disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, and anthropology. No one has been more responsible for the awakening of interest in this area than Roger Schank and Bob Abelson. In their target article, they argue that narrative forms of mental representation, or "stories," are the basic ingredients of social knowledge that play a fundamental role in the comprehension of information conveyed in a social context, the storage of this information in memory, and the later communication of it to others. After explicating the cognitive processes that underlie the construction of narratives and their use in comprehension, memory and communication, the chapter authors consider the influence of stories on a number of more specific phenomena, including political judgment, marital relations and memory distortions that underlie errors in eyewitness testimony. The provocativeness of the target chapter is matched by that of the companion articles, each of which not only provides an important commentary on Schank and Abelson's conceptualization, but also makes an important contribution to knowledge in its own right. The diversity of perspectives reflected in these articles, whose authors include researchers in linguistics, memory and comprehension, social inference, cognitive development, social judgment, close relationships, and social ecology, testifies to the breadth of theoretical and empirical issues to which the target chapter is potentially relevant. This volume is a timely and important contribution to research and theory not only in social cognition but in many other areas as well.