Author: George ATWELPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Faithful Surveyor: Teaching how to Measure All Manner of Ground Exactly ... With an Appendix Unfolding Errours in Board and Timber-measure, Etc
Author: George ATWELFaithful Measures
Author: Roger FinkePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479897620
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A venture into the art and science of measuring religion in everyday life In an era of rapid technological advances, the measures and methods used to generate data about religion have undergone remarkably little change. Faithful Measures pushes the study of religion into the 21st century by evaluating new and existing measures of religion and introducing new methods for tapping into religious behaviors and beliefs. This book offers a global and innovative approach, with chapters on the intersection of religion and new technology, such as smart phone apps, Google Ngrams, crowdsourcing data, and Amazon buying networks. It also shows how old methods can be improved by using new technology to create online surveys with experimental designs and by developing new ways of mining data from existing information. Chapter contributors thoroughly explain how to employ these new techniques, and offer fresh insights into understanding the complex topic of religion in modern life. Beyond its quantitative contributions, Faithful Measures will be an invaluable resource for inspiring a new wave of creativity and exploration in our connected world.
Faithful Intellect
Author: Neil SemplePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773527591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In 1850, Samuel Nelles, a well-educated Methodist minister, was selected to resuscitate the debt-ridden and declining Victoria University. As principal, and later as president and chancellor, he fought against shortsighted government educational policies while making the school into one of the premier universities in Canada. A true academic, Nelles believed in the importance of testing assumed laws, dogmas, and creeds. However his pursuit of intellectual inquiry was always guided by a rational faith in God, as well as the expectation of the future greatness and goodness of humanity. Faithful Intellect expands the reader's understanding of many of the key intellectual, religious, and political concerns of nineteenth-century English Canada while providing an essential contribution to the study of Canada's system of higher education.
The Faithful Testimony of that Antient Servant of the Lord, and Minister of the Everlasting Gospel William Dewsbury; in His Books, Epistles and Writings, Collected and Printed for Future Service
Author: William DewsburyBeing Faithful: Christian Commitment in Modern Society
Author: Judith A. MerklePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567611507
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This book explores how the Christian life is lived in a pluralistic situation where different contexts of belonging give rise to different moral challenges. While it is characteristic of modern life to exist in a postmodern situation where there is an erosion of comprehensive systems of meaning, we still live today in contexts of belonging. We still seek to gather out of the fragments of modern life the sustenance of a network of belonging, belief and practice which comprise a faithful life. The construction of such a life, not only for us, but for others, serves as the framework for our moral commitments. Furthermore, sustaining and transforming social frameworks which shape various aspects of human life form the life task of adult Christians.
The Books and Divers Epistles of the Faithful Servant of the Lord Josiah Coale; Collected and Published, as it was Desired by Him, Etc. [With Three Testimonies, the First Signed: A. P., I.e. Andrew Parker, the Second Signed: G. W., I.e. George Whitehead, the Third by William Penn; and an Epistle to the Reader by George Fox.]
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Author: Josiah COALEThe Faithful Departed
Author: Philip F. LawlerPublisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594035113
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The Faithful Departed traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church as a cultural dynamo in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that has echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions have lost social influence in the face of rising secularization. The collapse of Catholicism in Boston became painfully apparent in 2002, with the full explosion of the sex-abuse crisis. But Lawler brings an insider’s knowledge and a journalist’s sense of drama to show that the sex-abuse scandal was neither the cause nor the beginning of Catholicism’s decline in Boston. In fact, the scandal was itself a symptom of corruption that was already well advanced. Full of colorful anecdote and gripping social history, The Faithful Departed will be of interest not only to Catholics and to those acquainted with Boston’s rich political tradition, but to anyone concerned about the interplay between religious faith and public policy. The demise of Catholic influence in Massachusetts is an especially vivid example of a secularizing trend that is visible throughout the United States.
Detectors, Reference Frames, and Time
Author: Alexander R. H. SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030110001
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This thesis uses the tools of quantum information science to uncover fascinating new insights about the intersection of quantum theory and relativity. It is divided into three self-contained parts, the first of which employs detector models to investigate how the information content of quantum fields depends on spacetime curvature and global spacetime topology. The behavior of Unruh-DeWitt detectors on curved spacetimes are investigated, following which these detectors are used to probe the vacuum state of a scalar field in various topologies. This leads to a generalization of the entanglement harvesting protocol involving detectors in arbitrary curved spacetimes admitting a Wightman function. The second part extends the theory of quantum reference frames to those associated with noncompact groups. Motivated by the pursuit of a relational relativistic quantum theory where the group of reference frames is the Poincaré group, the author then generalizes a communication protocol between two parties lacking a common reference frame to the scenario where the group of transformations of their reference frame is a one-dimensional noncompact Lie group. Finally, the third part, inspired by theories of quantum gravity, generalizes the conditional probability interpretation of time, a proposed mechanism for time to emerge from a fundamentally timeless Universe. While the conditional probability interpretation of time is based upon conditioning a solution to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation on a subsystem of the universe that acts a clock, the author extends this approach to include an interaction between the system being used as a clock and a system whose evolution the clock is tracking.
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