Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches Books
Cfi The Temple Experience
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£18.04
Herald Press (VA) All about the Amish: Answers to Common Questions
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£14.24
Herald Press (VA) Amish Voices, Volume 2: In Their Own Words
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£18.99
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Emanuel Swedenborg: Essential Readings
Book SynopsisBest known for his focus on the intuitive force within, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) also anticipated major modern discoveries in mineralogy, psychology, and anatomy. In this succinct and readable collection, Stanley expertly brings the most significant writings from Swedenborg''s oeuvre together, showing readers a man who created a hieroglyphic language, reimagined the Genesis story, influenced Blake, Balzac, Strindberg, and Yeats, and authored a number of anonymous works that put the Swedish clergy of his day on high alert. This is the fourth title in the Western Esoteric Masters Series from North Atlantic Books.
£12.59
Paragon House Publishers The Vision of Mormonism: Pressing the Boundaries
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£18.04
YWAM Publishing,U.S. William Booth: Soup, Soap and Salvation
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£12.08
WW Norton & Co The Story of the Shakers
Book SynopsisToday, as the number of Shakers has dwindled to only a handful, the story of the Shakers has never been more important to record and understand. In this classic book featuring a brand new introduction, Flo Morse offers a stimulating, graceful summary of Shaker beliefs and the way of life that still endures among a chosen few.
£9.99
WW Norton & Co The Shaker's Guide to Good Manners
Book Synopsis"Never make more free with your inferiors than you are willing they should make with you; it learns them to be saucy." Such sage words of advice come from Mother Ann Lee's Society of the Shakers, who in 1844 published A Juvenile Guide, or Manual of Good Manners, Consisting of Counsels, Instructions, & Rules of Deportment for the Young. Known for their piety, their economy, and (perhaps most famously) their celibacy, the Shakers knew a thing or two about etiquette and proper decorum. With this incredible artifact of a bygone era, you can experience what it was like to live in a rural 19th century religious community, where children were taught to "be careful not to talk too loud, nor too much" and to "always have a place for every thing, and keep every thing in its place."
£11.39
Replenish
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£20.89
Life Sentence Publishing My People, the Amish: The True Story of an Amish
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£15.19
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage,
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because of their numbers in a household, more liberated than French women who can't divorce? What is polygamy but another name for multiple mistresses? This new critical edition presents translations of four musical comedies staged or published in France in the late 1800s: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth’s Twelve Wives (1890), and Stephana’s Jewel (1892). Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. Humorous and largely unknown, these plays use Mormonism to explore and mock changing French mentalities during the Third Republic, lampooning shifting attitudes and evolving laws about marriage, divorce, and gender roles. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Mormons in Paris is as erudite as it is enchanting. In their introduction, Corry Cropper and Christopher Flood show exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge about French theater, opera, and light opera and their place in late nineteenth-century French culture. The language of the translations is natural and readable, and the little songs in verse are especially delightful." -- Susan McCready * author of Staging France between the World Wars *"This well-introduced collection of little-known musical comedies featuring French characterizations of Mormonism is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century French cultural studies. The translations themselves are excellent . . . the authors’ choices of idiomatic expressions capture just the right tone, neither anachronistically modern nor too archaic to retain their impact." -- Andrea Goulet * co-editor of Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics *"Mormons in Paris is as erudite as it is enchanting. In their introduction, Corry Cropper and Christopher Flood show exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge about French theater, opera, and light opera and their place in late nineteenth-century French culture. The language of the translations is natural and readable, and the little songs in verse are especially delightful." -- Susan McCready * author of Staging France between the World Wars *"This well-introduced collection of little-known musical comedies featuring French characterizations of Mormonism is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century French cultural studies. The translations themselves are excellent . . . the authors’ choices of idiomatic expressions capture just the right tone, neither anachronistically modern nor too archaic to retain their impact." -- Andrea Goulet * co-editor of Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Mormons in Paris Louis Leroy and Alfred Delacour Chapter 2: Berthelier Meets the Mormons Chapter 3: Japheth’s Twelve Wives Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières Chapter 4: Stephana’s Jewel Arthur Bernède and Albert Dubarry Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
£107.20
Y Lolfa Welsh Saints on the Mormon Trail - The Story of
Book SynopsisThe story of the Welsh who emigrated to North America on the Mormon Trail. Between 1847 and 1869, about 4,500 Welsh people crossed the Great Plains and the Rockies by ox-cart, through the history of the early West. The Indian Wars, the Civil War, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Crazy Horse all appear in their story. Over 70 photographs.Trade ReviewAlmost anyone who has tried to read The Book of Mormon will know it for an outrageous forgery written in King-James-Bible English, yet today there are some 16 million followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, centred on Salt Lake City. First published in Welsh, Welsh Saints on the Mormon Trail is a history of the Welsh contribution to the founding years of the Church in the mid nineteenth century, for between 1847 and 1868 some 5,000 converts, mostly Welsh-speaking, left Wales to make the long and dangerous journey across the Atlantic and then overland to the fledgling Promised Land in what was to become the state of Utah. At first, shiploads of Mormon converts sailed to New Orleans, then up the Mississippi to Nauvoo, after which they journeyed in ox-drawn wagon trains many hundreds of miles across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains to the Mormon settlements around the Great Salt Lake. Later, the point of debarkation was changed to New York, in part at least because of the diseases that plagued the Mississippi route. The courage and endurance of these men, women and children, especially in the early years, was extraordinary. All wagon trains had to be organised with a careful estimation of food and other necessary supplies, and timed so as to cross the Rockies before the onset of winter. The Mormons under Brigham Young were particularly well served in this respect. Even so, death from dreaded diseases like cholera, and terrible accidents with individuals falling under the wheels of wagons, were a constant peril on the long journey. By the 1860s, too, there was danger from raiding parties of Plains Indians whose hunting grounds they crossed. The Mormons, though they may not have intended it, were part of the great theft of Indian land in the mid and late nineteenth century and of the tragedy that ended in the genocide of Native Americans. But the Welsh Mormons were often victims, too, in Wales, where the Mormon faith was viewed with suspicion and often downright hatred in Nonconformist communities. Losing one’s job, or being beaten up, were common enough to make converts long for escape to the great New Jerusalem beyond the boundaries of the United States in the 1840s. Wil Aaron tells this fascinating story with chapters divided in years from 1847–68. He is lucky in having a treasure trove of documentary evidence. Mormons were encouraged to keep diaries, and many of these describe vividly the trials of the Saints as they laboured with ox-drawn carts – and in one year with handcarts alone – across the great expanse of plains and mountains. He also draws on letters home, and on the Welsh-language Mormon journal, Udgorn Seion. They allow him to recreate the experience of these pioneers, enhanced by period and recent photographs and an excellent pull-out map of the trail itself in great detail. This English-language edition is very well written and the story it tells so fascinating that I found it hard to put down. Highly recommended. -- John Barnie @ www.gwales.com
£17.86
