wyszukanych pozycji: 8
In Pursuit of the Almighty's Dollar: A History of Money and American Protestantism
ISBN: 9781469614755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises--for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Protestantism, James Hudnut-Beumler examines how churches have raised and spent money from colonial times to the present and considers what these practices say about both religion and American culture.
After the constitutional separation of church and state was put in force, Hudnut-Beumler explains, clergy salaries had to be collected... Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises--for clergy, educators, b...
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204,90 zł |
Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics, 1945-1965
ISBN: 9780813520841 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the 1950s, 99 percent of adult Americans said they believed in God. How, James Hudnut-Beumler asks, did this consensus about religion turn into the confrontational debates over religion in the 1960s? He argues that post-World War II suburban conformity made church-going so much a part of middle-class values and life that religion and culture became virtually synonymous. Secular critics like David Riesman, William Whyte, C. Wright Mills, and Dwight Macdonald, who blamed American culture for its conformism and lack of class consciousness, and religious critics like Will Herberg, Gibson...
In the 1950s, 99 percent of adult Americans said they believed in God. How, James Hudnut-Beumler asks, did this consensus about religion turn into the...
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181,55 zł |
Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South
ISBN: 9781469669458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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190,96 zł |
Generous Saints: Congregations Rethinking Ethics and Money
ISBN: 9781566992107 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A constructive theology and ethics of money in the Christian life, this series addition is by James Hudnut-Beumler, dean and associate professor of religion and culture at Columbia Theological Seminary, and deals with vital questions. "What does the Lord require? what is the true meaning of the term 'commonwealth?' and how does the church build a stable base for its members to live ethical lives?" A positive approach to forming the basis for new thought and discussion.
A constructive theology and ethics of money in the Christian life, this series addition is by James Hudnut-Beumler, dean and associate professor of re...
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145,94 zł |
The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780664264666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written primarily for undergraduate classes in American religious history and organized chronologically, this new textbook presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain central narratives, including the long shadow of Puritanism, the competition between revival and reason, and the defining role of racial and ethnic diversity, the book tells the story of American religion in all its historical and moral complexity. To appeal to its broad range of readers, this textbook includes charts, timelines, and suggestions for...
Written primarily for undergraduate classes in American religious history and organized chronologically, this new textbook presents the broad scope of...
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195,14 zł |
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
ISBN: 9780231183611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Experts in American religious history and the sociology of religion examine the decline of mainline Protestantism over the past half century and assess its future. The book argues that the mainline Protestant movement will continue to be a vital remnant in a culture torn between the contending forces of secularism and evangelicalism.
Experts in American religious history and the sociology of religion examine the decline of mainline Protestantism over the past half century and asses...
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152,88 zł |
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
ISBN: 9780231183604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Experts in American religious history and the sociology of religion examine the decline of mainline Protestantism over the past half century and assess its future. The book argues that the mainline Protestant movement will continue to be a vital remnant in a culture torn between the contending forces of secularism and evangelicalism.
Experts in American religious history and the sociology of religion examine the decline of mainline Protestantism over the past half century and asses...
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480,48 zł |
The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York
ISBN: 9780814767139 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro, and Reinhold Niebuhr lectured church and nation about issues of the day. The greatest of American preachers have served as senior minister, including Harry Emerson Fosdick, Robert J. McCracken, Ernest T. Campbell, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., and James A. Forbes, Jr., and at one time the... It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson M... |
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202,29 zł |