Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christianity - Denominations

"Holy Rollers" -- with this epithet most people dismiss members of the Pentecostal sect as wild religious fanatics. In this new study, folklorist Elaine Lawless draws on fieldwork among Pentecostal congregations in the limestone region of southern Indiana to offer a sympathetic view of the Pentecostals as a special group distinguished by their own folk traditions and religious expression.

From her findings she describes the members' codes of dress and behavior, their attitudes toward themselves and others, their special use of words, and their distinctive religious practices....

In this richly suggestive overview, a noted historian illuminates the variety and vitality of southern religion by examining three major Protestant denominational families in the region: Baptists, "Christians" (for example, the Churches of Christ), and the "of God" groups (Pentecostals, among others). Ranging in coverage from the colonial period to the present, with special emphasis on the nineteenth century, Samuel S. Hill traces the growth and diversification of each of these groups as they have sloughed off old patterns, conventions, and constraints in their never-ending searches for...

For 350 years, Protestantism was the dominant religion in America--and its influence spilled over in many directions into the wider culture. Religious historian Martin E. Marty looks at the factors behind both the long period of Protestant ascendancy in America and the comparatively recent diffusion and diminution of its authority. Marty ranges across time, covering such things as the establishment of the Jamestown settlement in 1607, the 1955 publication of Will Herberg's landmark book "Protestant-Catholic-Jew," and the current period of American ethnic and religious pluralism.

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Although never published as a single volume in his lifetime, these four statements of belief form the core of the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). The four doctrines are: a description of the nature of the Lord, by which Swedenborg means both Jesus and God; the inner spiritual meaning of holy scripture; the nature of evil and and importance of good works; and nature of faith.

This edition is a reprint, with revisions, of a 1904 translation by John Faulkener Potts."

This two-volume collection of short works by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was compiled after his death to give readers access to some of his lesser-known works. Volume 1 contains autobiographical letters from Swedenborg; additional material for his work True Christian Religion; essays about the New Church; and writings about charity, sacred scripture, and the Last Judgment.

This volume of short works by Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was collected and published after his death to make the pieces available to curious readers. Volume 2 contains summaries of the inner meaning of certain Old Testament books, particularly Psalms; discussions of New Church doctrine; essays on the Ten Commandments and marriage; descriptions of his conversations with angels in heaven; and theological extracts from Swedenborg's personal letters.

Wangerin examines one small symbolic revolution against American capitalist culture. It was carried out by youth who were painfully and personally aware of the problems of what they called the System, though they did not necessarily understand the underlying causes of their problems. They called themselves the Children of God. Wangerin studied the Children of God from 1973-1978 in the United States, Mexico, and Italy and has kept in touch with some of them ever since. This is one of the most thorough studies of the controversial cult founded in 1968 by David Berg, and the only ethnography...