Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christianity - Denominations

During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find employment in urban centers. They transplanted not only themselves but also their culture; in the midst of this tumultuous demographic transition emerged a new social institution, the storefront sanctified church.
Saved and Sanctified focuses on one such Philadelphia church that was started above a horse stable, was founded by a woman born sixteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is still active today. "The Church," as it is...

Elesha Coffman narrates the previously untold story of the magazine, exploring its chronic financial struggles, evolving editorial positions, and often fractious relations among writers, editors, and readers, as well as the central role it played in the rise of mainline...

Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history.

The figure of Moses helps us better understand how whites saw themselves as a chosen people in situations of suffering and war and how Africans and African Americans reworked certain stories in the Bible to suit their own purposes. By applying the figure of Jesus to the central concerns of life, Harvey argues, southern evangelicals were instrumental in turning him into an American figure. The ghostly presence of the...

Don't Live Without The Holy Spirit. Discover the character of the Holy Spirit, the purpose of the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit operates in the life of the Born-Again believer. Expect to be motivated to apply the Holy Spirit to your own daily life and to learn what it's like to never live without Him. For over 40 years, Yolonda exercised her musical gift but never started to fulfill her dream and operate in her purpose until she understood and activated the Holy Spirit in her life. Take the journey through her life, and you will be encouraged, as you see how God was behind the scenes...

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and America, established society branded as "enthusiasts" those unconventional but religiously devout extremists who stepped across orthodox lines and claimed an intimate, emotional relationship with God. John of Leyden, Anne Hutchinson, William Penn, and George Whitefield all shared the label "enthusiast." This book is a study of the enthusiasts who migrated to the American colonies as well as those who emerged there--from Pilgrim Fathers to pietistic Moravians, from the martyr-bound Quakers to heaven-bent revivalists of the 1740s.

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Author Richard Bennett spent twenty years visiting different churches and congregations, searching for the differences and similarities among the various Christian denominations and sects.

In "The Mirror of Christianity," Bennett presents his findings and illuminates little known or misunderstood teachings of each denomination. He explores what it means to be evangelical and looks at what binds various denominations within the evangelical tradition together-despite their seemingly significant differences.

Covering topics such as the end times, the rise of Islam, the role of sects...