Religion In Strange Times
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Religion In Strange Times
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Author : Ronald Bruce Flowers
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 1984
Religion In Strange Times written by Ronald Bruce Flowers and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Religion categories.
This book attempts to explain why the religious radicalism of the sixties gave way to the conservatism of the seventies.
Strange Prayers For Strange Times
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Author : Prof Oddfellow
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Strange Prayers For Strange Times written by Prof Oddfellow and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with categories.
Strange times call for strange measures. Theologians have historically tried to communicate what cannot be said. As Paul Tillich argued, "The words which are used most in religion are also those whose genuine meaning is also completely lost." Only through lingustic resurrection-finding new, if controversial, ways to talk about and to God-can we address our strange circumstances to the divine. Just as particle physicists use highly unusual scientific language ("quark," "charm," even "strangeness" itself), our prayers may need to be lifted in bizarre voices. For "in the beginning was the neologism" (and the fact that the phrase is a Googlewhack merely proves its deeper truth beyond human ken). Note that the strange prayers in this book are not so strange as to be labeled "glossolalia." Before combining strange prayers with strange fasting, strange thanksgiving, or strange candles, consult with your spiritual advisor.
Strange Rites
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Author : Tara Isabella Burton
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-06-16
Strange Rites written by Tara Isabella Burton and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-16 with Social Science categories.
A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, practices, high priests and prophets of our supposedly post-religion age. Fifty-five years have passed since the cover of Time magazine proclaimed the death of God and while participation in mainstream religion has indeed plummeted, Americans have never been more spiritually busy. While rejecting traditional worship in unprecedented numbers, today's Americans are embracing a kaleidoscopic panoply of spiritual traditions, rituals, and subcultures -- from astrology and witchcraft to SoulCycle and the alt-right.As the Internet makes it ever-easier to find new "tribes," and consumer capitalism forever threatens to turn spirituality into a lifestyle brand, remarkably modern American religious culture is undergoing a revival comparable with the Great Awakenings of centuries past. Faith is experiencing not a decline but a Renaissance. Disillusioned with organized religion and political establishments alike, more and more Americans are seeking out spiritual paths driven by intuition, not institutions. In Strange Rites, religious scholar and commentator Tara Isabella Burton visits with the techno-utopians of Silicon Valley; Satanists and polyamorous communities, witches from Bushwick, wellness junkies and social justice activists and devotees of Jordan Peterson, proving Americans are not abandoning religion but remixing it. In search of the deep and the real, they are finding meaning, purpose, ritual, and communities in ever-newer, ever-stranger ways.
Strategic Living In Strange Times
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Author : Paulette Phillips
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-03-14
Strategic Living In Strange Times written by Paulette Phillips and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-14 with categories.
Strange Gods
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Author : Susan Jacoby
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2016-02-16
Strange Gods written by Susan Jacoby and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-16 with History categories.
In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century “religious marketplace” in which half of Americans have changed faiths at least once, nothing has been more important in the struggle for reason than the right to believe in the God of one’s choice or to reject belief in God altogether. Focusing on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—each claiming possession of absolute truth—Jacoby examines conversions within a social and economic framework that includes theocratic coercion (unto torture and death) and the more friendly persuasion of political advantage, economic opportunism, and interreligious marriage. Moving through time, continents, and cultures—the triumph of Christianity over paganism in late antiquity, the Spanish Inquisition, John Calvin’s dour theocracy, Southern plantations where African slaves had to accept their masters’ religion—the narrative is punctuated by portraits of individual converts embodying the sacred and profane. The cast includes Augustine of Hippo; John Donne; the German Jew Edith Stein, whose conversion to Catholicism did not save her from Auschwitz; boxing champion Muhammad Ali; and former President George W. Bush. The story also encompasses conversions to rigid secular ideologies, notably Stalinist Communism, with their own truth claims. Finally, Jacoby offers a powerful case for religious choice as a product of the secular Enlightenment. In a forthright and unsettling conclusion linking the present with the most violent parts of the West’s religious past, she reminds us that in the absence of Enlightenment values, radical Islamists are persecuting Christians, many other Muslims, and atheists in ways that recall the worst of the Middle Ages. (With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)
These Are Strange Times My Dear
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Author : Wendy Willis
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2019-02-05
These Are Strange Times My Dear written by Wendy Willis and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with Literary Collections categories.
"In these pointed and wide–ranging essays, Wendy Willis explores everything from personal resistance to the rise of political podcasts, civic loneliness to the exploitation of personal data, public outrage to the opioid crisis—all with a poet's gift for finding the sacred in the mundane, a hope in the dark. One of the country's sharpest observers of politics, art, and the American spirit, Willis returns often to the demanding question posed by Czech writer, activist, and politician Václav Havel: What does it mean to live in truth? Her view is honed by her place as a poet, as a mother, and, when necessary, as an activist. Together, the essays in These Are Strange Times, My Dear work within that largely unmapped place where the heartbreaks and uncertainties of one's inner life brush up against the cruelties and responsibilities of politics and government and our daily lives."
Religion In America Since 1945
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Author : Patrick Allitt
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003
Religion In America Since 1945 written by Patrick Allitt and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Identifying the major trends and telling moments within both major denominations and other less formal religious movements, Allitt asks how these religious groups have shaped, and been shaped by, some of the most important and divisive political issues and events of the last half century, including the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, feminism and the sexual revolution, abortion rights, and the antinuclear and environmentalist movements.
Strange Days
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Author : Mark Sayers
language : en
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Release Date : 2017-05-02
Strange Days written by Mark Sayers and has been published by Moody Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with Religion categories.
What in the world is going on? These days the world has everyone spinning. Weekly terrorist attacks. The refugee crisis. Transgender bathrooms. Academic safe spaces. Tensions with Russia. A perpetually uncertain economy. The list goes on. It’s enough to make us crazy… or want to put our heads in the sand. But we can’t, because these are our times, and we must face them. So what many Christians are looking for is someone to communicate a way forward—someone who both understands culture and trusts the Bible. Mark Sayers is such a leader, one who “writes from the future.” He is a gifted cultural analysist who combines his biblical knowledge, curious mind, and pastoral heart to offer a guide to the times. Strange Days will help Christians slow down, get their bearings, and follow God with wisdom and tact in this wild world. “Take heart, for I have overcome the world,” Jesus said nearly 2,000 years ago. And that’s the message of Strange Days, the message the church needs today.
Religion And The Demographic Revolution
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Author : Callum G. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2012
Religion And The Demographic Revolution written by Callum G. Brown and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
In the 1960s Christian religious practice and identity declined rapidly and women's lives were transformed, spawning a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. The argument of this book is that the two were intimately connected, triggered by an historic confluence of factors.
Religion In The Modern American West
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Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Religion In The Modern American West written by Ferenc Morton Szasz and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Religion categories.
When Americans migrated west, they carried with them not only their hopes for better lives but their religious traditions as well. Yet the importance of religion in the forging of a western identity has seldom been examined. In this first historical overview of religion in the modern American West, Ferenc Szasz shows the important role that organized religion played in the shaping of the region from the late-nineteenth to late-twentieth century. He traces the major faiths over that time span, analyzes the distinctive response of western religious institutions to national events, and shows how western cities became homes to a variety of organized faiths that cast only faint shadows back east. While many historians have minimized the importance of religion for the region, Szasz maintains that it lies at the very heart of the western experience. From the 1890s to the 1920s, churches and synagogues created institutions such as schools and hospitals that shaped their local communities; during the Great Depression, the Latter-day Saints introduced their innovative social welfare system; and in later years, Pentecostal groups carried their traditions to the Pacific coast and Southern Baptists (among others) set out in earnest to evangelize the Far West. Beginning in the 1960s, the arrival of Asian faiths, the revitalization of evangelical Protestantism, the ferment of post-Vatican II Catholicism, the rediscovery of Native American spirituality, and the emergence of New Age sects combined to make western cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco among the most religiously pluralistic in the world. Examining the careers of key figures in western religion, from Rabbi William Friedman to Reverend Robert H. Schuller, Szasz balances specific and general trends to weave the story of religion into a wider social and cultural context. Religion in the Modern American West calls attention to an often overlooked facet of regional history and broadens our understanding of the American experience.