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1979 the Book of Common Prayer & Bible-NRSVThis handy volume features the essential liturgical texts for members of the Episcopal Church, the branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States of America. As such, it is an excellent resource for the work of priests and deacons. Indeed, the "combo's"...
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America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham LincolnReligious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which...
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Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American TragedyOn September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter....
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Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 C.E.: A ReaderChristianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 C.E.: A Reader collects primary sources of the early Christian world, from the last "Great Persecution" under the Emperor Diocletian to the Council of Chalcedon in the mid-fifth century. During this period Christianity rose to prominence in the Roman...
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Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American ObsessionThe Antichrist, though mentioned a mere four times in the Bible, and then only obscurely, has exercised a tight hold on popular imagination throughout history. This has been particularly true in the U.S., says author Robert C. Fuller, where Americans have tended to view...
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The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious TransformationWhile historians of Christianity have generally acknowledged some degree of Germanic influence in the development of early medieval Christianity, Russell goes further, arguing for a fundamental Germanic reinterpretation of Christianity. This first full-scale treatment of the subject follows a truly interdisciplinary approach, applying to...
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Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination...
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John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century PortraitHistorians have credited--or blamed--Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and unitarianism. These same historians, however, have largely ignored John Calvin the man. When people consider him at all, they tend to view him as little...
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Medieval Women's Visionary LiteratureThese pages capture a thousand years of medieval women's visionary writing, from late antiquity to the 15th century. Written by hermits, recluses, wives, mothers, wandering teachers, founders of religious communities, and reformers, the selections reveal how medieval women felt about their lives, the kind...
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A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical RealitiesRobert Handy is one of the foremost historians of mainstream religion in America and author of A History of the Churches in the U.S. and Canada (1979).Author: Robert T. HandyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 01/12/1984Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 7.94h x 5.39w x 0.63dISBN:...
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Baptists in America: A HistoryThe Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from megachurches...
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The Catholic Enlightenment: The Forgotten History of a Global Movement"Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion, as prevalent today...
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Gospels Before the BookWhat does it look like to read the texts we now call the gospels like first- and second-century readers? There is no evidence of anyone regarding the gospel as a book published by an author until the end of the second century. So, put...
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The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and CosmologyThe Power of Godliness is a key work to understand Mormon conceptions of priesthood, authority, and gender. With in-depth research and never previously used documents, Jonathan A. Stapley explores the rituals of ordination, temple "sealings," baby blessings, healing, and cunning-folk traditions. In doing so,...
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The Americas' First Theologies: Early Sources of Post-Contact Indigenous ReligionThe Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first Christian theology written in the Americas. Made available in English translation for the first time, Americas' First Theologies presents a selection of exemplary sections from the Theologia Indorum that illustrate Friar Vico's...
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Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to ReconstructionAmong the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies...
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Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern EuropeScholars have associated Calvinism with print and literary cultures, with republican, liberal, and participatory political cultures, with cultures of violence and vandalism, enlightened cultures, cultures of social discipline, secular cultures, and with the emergence of capitalism. Reflecting on these arguments, the essays in this...
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Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of HistoryIn 1099, the soldiers of the First Crusade took Jerusalem. As the news of this victory spread throughout Medieval Europe, it felt nothing less than miraculous and dream-like, to such an extent that many believed history itself had been fundamentally altered by the event...
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At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman EmpireIn his sixth satire, Juvenal speculates about how Roman wives busy themselves while their husbands are away, namely, by entertaining a revolving door of exotic visitors who include a eunuch of the eastern goddess Bellona, an impersonator of Egyptian Anubis, a Judean priestess, and...
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Protestantism After 500 YearsThe world stands before a landmark date: October 31, 2017, the quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation. Countries, social movements, churches, universities, seminaries, and other institutions shaped by Protestantism face a daunting question: how should the Reformation be commemorated 500 years after the fact? In...
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