Author: E. Clifford NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lutherans
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Lutheran Church Among Norwegian-Americans
Author: E. Clifford NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lutherans
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Lutheran Church Among Norwegian-Americans: 1890-1959 ; v. 1. 1825-1890
Author: E. Clifford NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norwegians
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan
Author: Kate AllenPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498524818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Stepping Up to the Cold War Challenge: The Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan describes the events that led to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC), an American Christian denomination, to respond to General MacArthur’s call for missionaries. This Church did not initially respond, but did so in 1949 only after their missionaries had been expelled from China due to the victory of communist forces on the mainland. Because they feared Japan would also succumb to communism in less than ten years, the missionaries evaded ecumenical cooperation and social welfare projects to focus on evangelism and establishing congregations. Many of the ELC missionaries were children and grandchildren of Norwegian immigrants who had settled as farmers on the North American Great Plains. Based on interview transcripts and other primary sources, this book intimately describes the personal struggles of individuals responding to the call to be a missionary, adjusting to life in Japan, learning Japanese, raising a family, and engaging in mission work. As the Cold War threat diminished and independence movements elsewhere were ending colonialism, missionaries were compelled to change methods and attitudes. The 1950s was a time when missionaries went out much in the same manner that they did in the nineteenth century. Through the voices of the missionaries and their Japanese coworkers, the book documents how many of the traditional missionary assumptions begin to be questioned.
Norwegian American Lutheranism Up to 1872
Author: John Magnus RohnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Lutherans in America
Author: Mark Alan GranquistPublisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 1451472285
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In this lively and engaging new history, Granquist brings to light not only the institutions that Lutherans founded and sustained but the people that lived within them. This shows the complete storynot only the policies and the politics, but the piety and the practical experiences of the Lutheran men and women who lived and worked in the American context. Bringing the story all the way to the present day, Granquist ably covers the full range of Lutheran expressions, bringing order and clarity to a complex and vibrant tradition.
Lutherans in North America
Author: Clifford E. NelsonPublisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451407389
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This book gives today's Lutherans a sense of heritage, identity and continuity, a sense of self-understanding. Readers will see themselves as part of a family. They can identify with the struggles, hopes, and frustrations of wave after wave of immigrants adapting to the strange new world of America and at the same time trying to preserve all they had known and loved and brought with them from the homeland. The genius of the entire volume is that it points beyond family memories to an ongoing and continuing life of which we and our children are a living part. Contributors: Theodore G. Tappert, Eugene Fevold, Fred W. Meuser, H. George Anderson, August R. Suelflow, and E. Clifford Nelson.
Norwegians on the Prairie
Author: Odd S. LovollPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A pioneering study that examines the social, cultural, and religious development of Norwegian Americans in the agricultural communities of rural Minnesota.
The Old Church on Walnut Street
Author: Chris PricePublisher:
ISBN: 9780692057575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the late 1800s, Norwegian immigrants began flooding into the Red River Valley. As they moved into the Grand Forks area, they brought their Old World folkways and religious practices. On the corner of Third and Walnut, Norwegian Lutherans built a small sanctuary to house their services. The building mirrored the simple worship of the Hauge Synod, the organization to which this congregation belonged. After merging with two other Norwegian churches in town, the old Trinity Lutheran structure passed into the hands of the Grand Forks Church of God, a congregation that echoed the revival fires of the Second Great Awakening. This is the story of a church building and the two assemblies that utilized it over a 100-year period.
The Promise Fulfilled
Author: Odd Sverre LovollPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452903576
Category : Norwegian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Norwegian Newspapers in America
Author: Odd S. LovollPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873517720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A comprehensive look at the Norwegian-language press, celebrating the tireless writers, editors, and publishers whose efforts helped guide Norwegian immigrants on their path to becoming Norwegian Americans.