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A Peculiar People
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Author : Charles Turner
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2003-04
A Peculiar People written by Charles Turner and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04 with Religion categories.
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Author : Rodney R. Clapp
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 1996-11-12
A Peculiar People written by Rodney R. Clapp and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-12 with Religion categories.
Rodney Clapp asks and answers the question, How can the church provide a significant alternative to the culture in which it is embedded?
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Author : Elmer Schwieder
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2009-04
A Peculiar People written by Elmer Schwieder and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04 with History categories.
Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, the state’s most distinctive religious minority. Sociologist Elmer Schwieder and historian Dorothy Schwieder began their research with the largest group of Old Order Amish in the state, the community near Kalona in Johnson and Washington counties, in April 1970; they extended their studies and friendships in later years to other Old Order settlements as well as the slightly less conservative Beachy Amish. A Peculiar People explores the origin and growth of the Old Order Amish in Iowa, their religious practices, economic organization, family life, the formation of new communities, and the vital issue of education. Included also are appendixes giving the 1967 “Act Relating to Compulsory School Attendance and Educational Standards”; a sample “Church Organization Financial Agreement,” demonstrating the group’s unusual but advantageous mutual financial system; and the 1632 Dortrecht Confession of Faith, whose eighteen articles cover all the basic religious tenets of the Old Order Amish. Thomas Morain’s new essay describes external and internal issues for the Iowa Amish from the 1970s to today. The growth of utopian Amish communities across the nation, changes in occupation (although The Amish Directory still lists buggy shop operators, wheelwrights, and one lone horse dentist), the current state of education and health care, and the conscious balance between modern and traditional ways are reflected in an essay that describes how the Old Order dedication to Gelassenheit—the yielding of self to the interests of the larger community—has served its members well into the twenty-first century.
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Author : Augustus Hare
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Peculiar People written by Augustus Hare and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
These days hardly anyone remembers Augustus John Curthbert Hare (1834-1903). But in his prime, the late Victorian age, his name was on the lips of anyone who mattered. He was a travel writer, a storyteller and a memoirist of the first order, and his work is a fascinating record of a lost way of life amongst the strangest upper classes of English society.
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Author : J. Spencer Fluhman
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-09-17
A Peculiar People written by J. Spencer Fluhman and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-17 with Religion categories.
Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In "A Peculiar People", J. Spencer Fluhman offers a comprehensive history of anti-Mormon thought and the associated passionate debates about religious authenticity in nineteenth-century America. He argues that understanding anti-Mormonism provides critical insight into the American psyche because Mormonism became a potent symbol around which ideas about religion and the state took shape. Fluhman documents how Mormonism was defamed, with attacks often aimed at polygamy, and shows how the new faith supplied a social enemy for a public agitated by the popular press and wracked with social and economic instability. Taking the story to the turn of the century, Fluhman demonstrates how Mormonism's own transformations, the result of both choice and outside force, sapped the strength of the worst anti-Mormon vitriol, triggering the acceptance of Utah into the Union in 1896 and also paving the way for the dramatic, yet still grudging, acceptance of Mormonism as an American religion.
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language : en
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Release Date : 1895
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Author : Oluwagbemiga Olowosoyo
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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God S Peculiar People
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Author : Elaine J. Lawless
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-21
God S Peculiar People written by Elaine J. Lawless and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with Religion categories.
"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. Focusing on the activity of a particular church, she then analyzes the structure of the service and shows how its elements—singing, praying, testifying, preaching, and speaking in tongues—exhibit, not a formless display of fervor, but rather an ordered and traditional sequence that creates a unique religious expression. Important to the study is the attention given the role of women. Although the Pentecostal interpretation of Biblical teachings accords men dominance, women occasionally preach in the church and during the testifying part of the service they are often able to exercise control and religious authority. Many of the women have relatives in the dangerous work of the limestone quarries, and for these women the personal experience and close relationship fostered by the Pentecostal church, Lawless finds, offers welcome emotional support. This readable study affords a new understanding of one Pentecostal sect and an appreciation of the role of women in fundamentalist religious practices.
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Author : Steven Willis
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2022-04-26
A Peculiar People written by Steven Willis and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with Poetry categories.
2023 The Black Caucus of the American Library Association - Poetry Winner 2022 Heartland Bookseller Awards Finalist A Peculiar People creates an entire microcosm within these poems. Steven Willis crafts a cast of characters, showcasing their struggles, identities, & underlying emotions. Willis champions the art of storytelling: weaving pop-culture and screenwriting elements to allow the reader to view this social commentary with a fresh lens. This collection examines the author's life experience; the pain of being Black and facing systemic racism.
The Goat God And Other Stories Cautionary Tales For Peculiar People
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Author : Kalen Grace
language : en
Publisher: BookLocker.com
Release Date : 2022-09-15
The Goat God And Other Stories Cautionary Tales For Peculiar People written by Kalen Grace and has been published by BookLocker.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Fiction categories.
A man discovers a destroyed typewriter, as well as a series of short stories purported to be the dying machine's last words to the world. But is the typewriter truly out of commission, or is it simply biding its time? Each story involves individuals facing unusual situations and learning about themselves in the process. A teenage boy finds his place at the end of civilization. A little girl discovers a dead body. Another girl recognizes the existence of time. An elderly couple faces the changing of the seasons. And a cafe patron realizes there is more to the night than they thought. These stories and others show that even a dying typewriter has something to say about the human experience.