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Cambridge University Press Employee Participation in Governance
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Cambridge University Press The Political Influence of Churches Cambridge Studies in Social Theory Religion and Politics
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Trinity Introduction to Religion
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
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Cambridge University Press A World Survey of Religion and the State Cambridge Studies in Social Theory Religion and Politics
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions
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Cambridge University Press Kierkegaard Concluding Unscientific Postscript Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews The Settings of the Sacrifice 143 Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series Series Number 143
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies Cambridge Companions to Religion
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 71
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Cambridge University Press Authorised Lives in Early Christian Biography
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Cambridge University Press George Herbert
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Cambridge University Press Theory History and the Study of Religion in Late Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press God and Being
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Cambridge University Press The Gut
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Cambridge University Press New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion
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Cambridge University Press From Radical Jesus People to Virtual Religion
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Cambridge University Press Violated and Transcended Bodies
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Cambridge University Press Monotheism and Divine Aggression
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Cambridge University Press Violence and Religious Change in the Pacific Islands
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Cambridge University Press ScienceEngaged Theology
Book SynopsisThis Element presents science-engaged theology that encourages theologians to collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines in a highly localised manner in order to make concrete claims with accountability and show how theological realities are entangled with the empirical world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction: memento naturam; 2. Beyond the territories of science and religion; 3. Neither serf nor queen: theology's new boldness in the university; 4. Unity and pluralism in science; 5. The sciences among the sources of theology; 6. Conclusion: advice to those who would be science-engaged theologians; References.
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Cambridge University Press Freud Jung and Jonah
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Cambridge University Press Eastern Orthodoxy and the ScienceTheology Dialogue
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Cambridge University Press Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Violence
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Cambridge University Press Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Monotheism and Divine Aggression
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Cambridge University Press God and Being
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Cambridge University Press Seeking Monotheism in Chinese Religions
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Concepts of Divine Oneness
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Cambridge University Press New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion
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Cambridge University Press Amulets in Magical Practice
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Cambridge University Press Monotheism and Religious Experience
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Cambridge University Press Gerald Gardner and the Creation of Wicca
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Cambridge University Press Psychology and Catholicism
Book SynopsisFrom the beginnings of modern psychology to the mid-1960s, the complicated relationship between psychology and Catholicism is methodically investigated by Kugelmann, who aims to provide clarity in an area filled with emotion and opinion. This study will be of great interest to scholars and students of psychology and religious studies.Trade Review'Kugelmann has done a masterful job of documenting a major set of developments with psychology and with US Roman Catholicism from obscurity, while integrating many diverse literatures and strands of scholarship in psychology, history, theology, philosophy, and their relevant subspecialties. Were the opening chapter required reading in every psychology of religion course, as well as every Christian seminary and pastoral counseling program, it would elevate the level of discourse in the field tremendously.' Brian H. McCorkle, Boston University'This is an insightful study about the many relationships and the many forms of Catholicism and the equally pluralistic science of modern psychology. Well informed, Kugelmann gives a lucid and fair account of both the struggles and [the] encounters as they have taken place in the United States of America. Detailed and precise, the volume may well serve as a model for research into the complexities of the situation in other countries, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary relations between religion and psychology in general.' Jacob A. Belzen, University of Amsterdam'Kugelmann has marshalled an extraordinary wealth of original archival research and a keen sensitivity to the historical, cultural, and theological world of twentieth-century Catholicism in telling the story of the encounter between scientific psychology and the Church. This volume is essential for any historian of the human sciences exploring the ways late modernity and religious institutional life met one another during the last century.' Vincent W. Hevern, S. J., Le Moyne College'The author's great passion for his subject shines through this book, and I was certainly enlightened by his clear, detailed account of this very complex subject.' The PsychologistTable of Contents1. An introduction; 2. The major fault line: modernism and psychology; 3. Neoscholastic psychology; 4. Psychology as the boundary: Catholicism, spiritualism, and science; 5. Psychoanalysis versus the power of will; 6. From out of the depths: Carl Jung's challenges and Catholic replies; 7. Institutionalizing the relationship; 8. Humanistic psychology and Catholicism: dialogue and confrontation; 9. Trading zones between psychology and Catholicism; 10. Crossings.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisEach essay in this Companion examines one or more literary texts and a religious tradition to illustrate how we can understand both literature and religion better by looking at them in tandem. Unlike most literature and religion books, which tend to focus on Christianity and take a highly theoretical approach inappropriate for non-specialists, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion offers an accessible treatment of both Dharmic and Abrahamic traditions. It provides close readings of texts rather than surveys of large topics, making it an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students of literature and religion.Trade Review'The collection's rich diversity bespeaks the generative intercourse of religion and literature.' S. Gowler, CHOICE'Literature and religion have a close relationship and have encouraged cross-disciplinary study over the years. This companion (one in a well-established series for the general and the academic reader) is a useful snapshot of current thinking. …The appeal to readers who like connecting religion and literature will be immediate. … for the general reader and believer, it is likely to stimulate and enrich their study of and reflections on their faith, and, of more value still, enhance their own religious practice.' Stuart Hannabuss, Women, Word, Spirit-Network Journal'This is an outstanding volume: diverse but coherent, demanding but always clear. The individual essays are strong, but read as whole the book is even more powerful. It is required reading for any scholar working in the wide and complex field of literature and religion.' Andrew Tate, The GlassTable of ContentsIntroduction Susan M. Felch; Part I. Reading Practices: 1. Theological reading Rowan Williams; 2. Confessional reading James Matthew Wilson; 3. Postsecular reading Zhange Ni; Part II. Intersections: 4. Ethics Susan M. Felch; 5. Dwelling Julia Reinhard Lupton; 6. Imagination Matthew Potts; 7. Sacrifice Michon M. Matthiesen; 8. Repetition Susannah Monta; Part III. Faith Traditions: 9. Hinduism Cleo Kearns; 10. Buddhism Richard K. Payne; 11. Judaism Susan Handelman; 12. Eastern Orthodoxy Lori Branch and Ioana Patuleanu; 13. Roman Catholicism Paul J. Contino; 14. Islam Mustansir Mir; 15. Protestantism Willie James Jennings; 16. World Christianity Susan VanZanten.
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Cambridge University Press Christ and the Cosmos A Reformulation of Trinitarian Doctrine
Book SynopsisThe concept of the 'social Trinity', which posits three conscious subjects in God, radically revised the traditional Christian idea of the Creator. It promoted a view of God as a passionate, creative and responsive source of all being. Keith Ward argues that social Trinitarian thinking threatens the unity of God, however, and that this new view of God does not require a 'social' component. Expanding on the work of theologians such as Barth and Rahner, who insisted that there was only one mind of God, Ward offers a coherent, wholly monotheistic interpretation of the Trinity. Christ and the Cosmos analyses theistic belief in a scientific context, demonstrating the necessity of cosmology to theological thinking that is often overly myopic and anthropomorphic. This important volume will benefit those who seek to understand what the Trinity is, why it matters and how it fits into a scientific account of the universe.Table of ContentsPart I. The Threefold Nature of the Divine Being: 1. Introduction: talking about the Trinity; 2. Why we may need to restate the ways in which we talk about the Trinity; 3. The doctrine of divine simplicity; 4. Cosmological and axiological explanation; 5. Divine potentiality and temporality; Part II. The Biblical Sources of Trinitarian Thought: 6. Three centres of consciousness?; 7. The synoptic Gospels; 8. John's Gospel; 9. The Trinity in the Epistles; 10. The idea of incarnation; Part III. The Trinity, Immanent and Economic: 11. Why three?; 12. Trinity and revelation; 13. Hegel and modern theology; 14. The immanent Trinity; 15. The identity of the immanent and the economic Trinity; 16. Hegel again; 17. What creation adds to the Trinity; 18. The epistemic priority of the economic Trinity; 19. The Trinity and naive realism; 20. The Trinity and the cosmos; 21. Revelation and the immanent Trinity; Part IV. The Social Trinity: 22. Persons and substances; 23. The idea of a personal and free creation; 24. The logical uniqueness of persons; 25. The divine nature and freedom; 26. Freedom in God and in creatures; 27. Persons as necessarily relational; 28. An ontology of the personal?; 29. Intra-Trinitarian love; 30. Infinite goods; 31. Divine love and necessity; 32. Love and alterity; 33. Trinity versus Monotheism; 34. The passion of Christ; 35. God and abandonment; Part V. The Cosmic Trinity: 36. The doctrine of perichoresis; 37. The convergence of social and unipersonal models of the Trinity; 38. Life-streams and persons; 39. Modalism and necessity; 40. The cosmic Trinity.
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Cambridge University Press The Spiritual Senses Perceiving God In Western Christianity
Book SynopsisIs it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses how these senses relate to the physical senses and the body, and analyzes their relationship to mind, heart, emotions, will, desire and judgement. The contributors illuminate the different ways in which classic Christian authors have treated this topic, and indicate the epistemological and spiritual import of these understandings. The concept of the 'spiritual senses' is thereby importantly recovered for contemporary theological anthropology and philosophy of religion.Trade Review'The editors of this collection of essays are well-known and respected theologians. … It comes as no surprise that their introduction and respective input (one chapter each) to this volume are excellent. … this is a collection of high-quality essays, in which arguments are clearly marshalled and well supported by texts.' Louis Roy, The ThomistTable of ContentsIntroduction Paul Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley; 1. Origen of Alexandria Mark J. McInroy; 2. Gregory of Nyssa Sarah Coakley; 3. Augustine Matthew R. Lootens; 4. Gregory the Great George Demacopoulos; 5. Pseudo-Dionysis the Areopagite Paul L. Gavrilyuk; 6. Maximus the Confessor Frederick D. Aquino; 7. Alexander of Hales Boyd Taylor Coolman; 8. Thomas Gallus Boyd Taylor Coolman; 9. Bonaventure Gregory F. LaNave; 10. Thomas Aquinas Richard Cross; 11. Late medieval mystics Bernard McGinn; 12. Nicholas of Cusa Garth Green; 13. Jonathan Edwards and his Puritan predecessors William J. Wainwright; 14. John Wesley Mark T. Mealey; 15. Hars Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner Mark J. McInroy; 16. Analytic philosophers of religion William J. Abraham; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Networks and Religion
Book SynopsisSocial scientists who study religion generally believe that social networks play a central role in religious life. However, most studies draw on measures that are relatively poor proxies for capturing the effects of social networks. This book illustrates how researchers can draw on formal social network analysis methods to explore the interplay of networks and religion. The book''s introductory chapters provide overviews of the social scientific study of religion and social network analysis. The remaining chapters explore a variety of topics current in the social scientific study of religion, as well as introducing a variety of social network theories and methods, such as balance theory, ego-network analysis, exponential random graph models, and stochastic actor-oriented models. By embedding social network analysis within a social scientific study of religion framework, Networks and Religion offers an array of approaches for studying the role that social networks play in religious beliTrade Review'Although most social scientists who study religion agree that social networks play a central role in religious life, few studies draw on measures that adequately capture the effects of social networks. This book illustrates how researchers can draw on formal [Social Network Analysis] methods to explore the interplay of networks and religion.' American Sociological Association Section on Religion NewsletterTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. The surprising (at least to some) persistence of religion; 2. Social network analysis: a brief introduction; Part II. Ties that Bind: 3. Recruitment and conversion; 4. Commitment and conformity; Part III. Ties that Loose: 5. Diffusion and innovation; 6. Politics and community; Part IV. Ties that Build-Up: 7. Networks and tradition; 8. Health and happiness; Part V. Ties that Tear Down: 9. Conflict and cohesion; 10. Radicalization and violence; Part VI. Conclusion: 11. Conclusion; Appendices; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Divine Hiddenness
Book SynopsisThis Element provides an introduction to the hiddenness argument, as presented by John Schellenberg, and its up-to-date discussion in a comprehensible way. It concludes with a brief assessment of where things stand, from the author''s point of view, and why divine hiddenness should not reduce a reflective theist''s confidence in theism.Table of Contents1. The Hiddenness of God in the Hiddenness Argument; 2. The Premises of the Hiddenness Argument; 3. Comparisons to the Argument from Evil; 4. Other Types of Hiddenness Arguments; 5. A Brief Assessment.
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Cambridge University Press Violence in Pacific Islander Traditional
Book SynopsisAn Element on the role of violence in the traditional religions of the Pacific Ilands (Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) and on violent activity in islander religious life after the opening of Oceania to the modern world. This work covers such issues as tribal warfare, sorcery and witchcraft, traditional punishment and gender imbalance. and moves on to consider reprisals against foreign intruders in the Pacific and the continuation of old types of violence in spite of massive socio-religious change.Table of Contents1. Background to the Study of Pacific Islander Life-ways; 2. Violence and Traditional Religions; 3. Afterthoughts and Foreshadowings; References.
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Cambridge University Press Puritans Behaving Badly
Book SynopsisTracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this book explores changes in language, gender expectations, and religious identities for men and women. The book argues that laypeople shaped gender conventions by challenging the ideas of ministers and rectifying more traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity. Although Puritan''s emphasis on spiritual equality had the opportunity to radically alter gender roles, in daily practice laymen censured men and women differently punishing men for public behavior that threatened the peace of their communities, and women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual corruption. In order to retain their public masculine identity, men altered the original mission of Puritanism, infusing gender into the construction of religious ideas about public service, the creation of the individual, and the gendering of separate spheres. With these practices, Puritans transformed their ''errand into the wilderness'' and the normatiTrade Review'In Puritans Behaving Badly, Monica D. Fitzgerald reveals a vibrant and contentious seventeenth-century society. Through gossip, confrontations, and church discipline, neighbors sought to defend reputations and sustain their communities. Deeply researched and well written, this book offers many rich insights about the social roles of men and women.' Alan Taylor, author of Thomas Jefferson's Education'Fitzgerald's thorough exploration of the disruptions in Puritan hegemony in early New England brilliantly underscores the gendered nuances of a heavily gendered 'lived faith' that heavily censured aberrations in feminine and masculine performances of identity. A truly impressive and thoughtful contribution to the scholarship of Puritanism and gender history.' Sandra Slater, College of Charleston'In Puritans Behaving Badly, Fitzgerald argues that the separate spheres ideology, often believed to have emerged in the 19th or 18th century, had origins in the 17th … Fitzgerald's examination of a gendered Puritanism sheds new light on the origin of separate spheres ideology … Recommended.' T. K. Byron, Choice'… easily accessible, with engaging case studies that insert the voice and character of individuals to engross the reader.' Kelly Ryan, William and Mary Quarterly'… the book is well written, engaging, and brings Puritan studies into the twenty-first century. It would make an excellent choice for the classroom in courses on gender history, early American history, or religious studies.' Rebecca J. Tannenbaum, Church History'Uncovering the experiences of women and men from the church and court disciplinary records of colonial Massachusetts between 1630 and 1725, Fitzgerald has produced an original and compelling contribution to the history of religion and society in early America. Recognising an opportunity in the field for further study of gender, church membership and discipline, the monograph emphasises a key tension between prescribed 'feminized piety' and the preoccupations of colonial men who resisted this model.' Patrick Seamus McGhee, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'Fitzgerald is a magnificent storyteller. She is able to draw in the reader with the story of the past and then apply her analysis of why the details are significant. This style piques the interest of the reader and makes Puritans Behaving Badly a captivating read. Records of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are oftentimes challenging because of various voids, many blanks, and lost information. Fitzgerald uses her scrupulous research skills peppered with empathy and imagination to fill in the gaps and provide intriguing stories about people of the past.' Heather E. Barry, Journal of British Studies'Fitzgerald's work should be required reading for courses on early America because of its scope, complex insights, and nuanced analysis of how gendered society developed.' Heather E. Barry, Journal of British Studies'… a compelling and accessible read that makes a meaningful intervention in American Religious History, New England History, and Gender History … [It] is essential reading for academics, religious leaders, and activists as we change how we speak about, legislate, and make meaning of gender.' Jaimie D. Crumley, Reading ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction: disciplining the sinful: a gendered lived religion; 1. The great hen squabble and regulating the godly path; 2. Drunkards and fornicators on Meeting House Hill: gendered sin and discipline; 3. 'Wicked tongues and wayward behavior': the language of confession; 4. A 'blubbering' war hero and the middle ground of masculinity: the case of Captain John Underhill; 5. 'Unquiet frame of spirit': Ann Hibbens, a troublesome and insubordinate woman; Conclusion. Three generations in the wilderness: gendered Puritanism and separate spheres; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Concepts of Divine Oneness
Book SynopsisThis book offers a selective, typological overview of Jewish perspectives on the belief in God''s oneness. To achieve this, the author divides the history of Judaism into four phases - biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern - and presents diverse models for understanding the reality of divine oneness within each phase. These models not only offers insight into different perspectives on the topic but also illuminate diverse layers of polemical discourse in the Jewish tradition, whether internal or in dialogue with other religions and worldviews. In addition, the author invites readers to consider how to think about the plurality of the perspectives at hand, and if and how such meta-reflection can enrich the lives of contemporary readers, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. No prior knowledge of Judaism is necessary.
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Cambridge University Press Amulets in Magical Practice
Book SynopsisThis Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal body parts.
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Cambridge University Press Monotheism and Religious Experience
Book SynopsisIn the monotheistic traditions, there are people who report having special experiences that justify their monotheistic beliefs. They see, hear, or otherwise experience directly the one true God, ruler of the universe. In order to understand what is going on in these experiences and how we should respond to reports of these experiences, it is important to understand what religious experiences can and can''t be, what the claim of monotheism entails, and therefore how what reports of such experiences mean, both for the experiencer and for the recipient of the report.
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Cambridge University Press Religion Race and the Making of Confederate Kentucky 18301880
Book SynopsisThis book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery.Trade Review'Harlow makes a significant contribution to our developing understanding of the unfortunate historical relationship between evangelical Christianity, slavery, and race throughout America … [A] masterful telling … Each assertion and point of analysis is amply documented, and the end result is both refreshingly source-based and absolutely convincing. In every way that matters, Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880 is a seamless monograph.' The American Historical Review'Harlow's book joins a small but significant literature recasting the relationship between Christianity and politics in the nineteenth century. He masterfully shows how religion can be a vital field of inquiry for unraveling the political peculiarities of the era … Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880 is a very fine book, richly deserving a place on the shelf of any student of the nineteenth-century South.' Journal of Southern History'… a welcome contribution …This persuasively argued and well documented study focuses on an elite group of white men: Kentucky's conservative evangelical clergy. […]Harlow's study answers recent calls to integrate religion into political narratives, and it exemplifies the valuable insights gained by doing so.' The Journal of American History'The legacies of slavery are still with us, and they include the assumption that whiteness is somehow close to godliness. Works like Harlow's … give us food for thought at a time when we need more sustenance to keep fighting and hoping that God will make right, for might has failed to do so.' The Christian Century'… with uncommon skill, intelligence and sensitivity, [Harlow] has deconstructed and re-centered the arguments of conservative evangelicals to show that for all their differences both antislavery gradualists and proslavery advocates worked from a common theological foundation.' Journal of Southern Religion'Writing in clear, crisp prose, and drawing upon a rich arsenal of primary sources, including periodicals, archival materials and primary texts, Harlow correctly notes that the commonwealth 'stood at the center of the nineteenth-century American debate over race, slavery and abolition'.' Ohio Valley History'Luke Harlow has written an important and ultimately sobering book on the relationship between religion, slavery and race in a vitally important border state. By focusing on a number of key leaders, he exposes both the nature and limits of antislavery sentiment in the church and how the conservatism and timidity of religious leaders led Kentucky along a path toward proslavery Unionism and ironically greater identity with the Confederacy after the Civil War. A first-rate monograph with considerable interpretative bite.' George C. Rable, Charles Summersell Chair in Southern History, University of Alabama, and author of God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War'Highly original and deeply researched, Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880 reveals how this border state was neither a moderate middle ground nor an outlier in the nineteenth century, but rather was a key front in the nation's long-standing battle over slavery. Harlow painstakingly reconstructs a diverse array of arguments that vied for supremacy along the pro- and antislavery spectrum - and reveals the crucial position of evangelical religion at the root of it all. The result is a masterful journey through the tangled history of race and religion in nineteenth-century America.' Amy Murrell Taylor, University of Kentucky'Luke Harlow's powerful book shows how the political theologies of slavery and white supremacy drove the Unionist state of Kentucky to 'become' Confederate after the Civil War. He ingeniously lays bare the long and contentious transition from the view of slavery as a 'necessary evil' to a full-throated embrace of white supremacy among white Kentucky Protestants, carefully demonstrating exactly how the faith that sustained slavery long outlived emancipation.' Beth Barton Schweiger, University of Arkansas'Luke Harlow's carefully researched and gracefully argued book reveals the importance of religion - an often-overlooked subject - in the racial politics of the Civil War era. Religion, as Harlow shows, explains Kentucky's transformation from a state that favored the Union to one identified with the Confederacy and white supremacy after the Civil War. Harlow's analysis, however, is about more than Kentucky. In his skilled hands, the state exposes broad national dynamics that explain the limits of change during Reconstruction more generally.' Laura F. Edwards, Duke University, North Carolina'Harlow's book adds to a wealth of careful studies of the relationship between nineteenth-century evangelicalism and slavery. It is a significant virtue of [this book] that he persists with his narrative beyond the war's end into the Reconstruction years.' Patheos (patheos.com)'[I] have no doubt that [this] will make a big splash in a number of fields, including religious history, the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and southern history broadly construed.' Religion in American History (usreligion.blogspot.co.uk)'By delving into the religious roots of both proslavery and antislavery adherents, Harlow reveals how the two opposite sides were united in racist theology by the post-war period … Harlow's work is a welcome addition to Kentucky history, religious history, and the literature on the issues of race and slavery in the nineteenth century.' Civil War Book Review'Luke Harlow's Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880 has taken a story that specialists have come to know - that white Kentuckians came late to their embrace of Confederate culture, after the failure of that political state - and has used it to reveal connections between evangelical religious, racial, and political thought in nineteenth-century America on both sides of the Civil War that have never before been explored so deeply … a signal contribution to the field … Harlow provides a needed postscript to the stories of evangelical conflict over slavery, demonstrating how ideas from the antebellum period are carried over into the postbellum one. Harlow is able to see this genealogy both because he is exquisitely attuned to the theological repartee of his subjects and because he takes on a distinct temporal frame, tracing connections and changes between antebellum and postbellum belief systems in a way that many other historians looking at the intersection ofTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The challenge of immediate emancipationism: the origins of abolitionist heresy, 1829–35; 2. Heresy and schism: the uneasy gradualist-proslavery ecclesiastical alliance, 1836–45; 3. The limits of Christian conservative antislavery: white supremacy and the failure of emancipationism, 1845–59; 4. The abolitionist threat: religious orthodoxy and proslavery unionism on the eve of civil war, 1859–61; 5. Competing visions of political theology: Kentucky Presbyterianism's civil war, 1861–2; 6. The end of neutrality: emancipation, political religion, and the triumph of abolitionist heterodoxy, 1862–5; 7. Kentucky's redemption: confederate religion and white democratic domination, 1865–74; Epilogue: the antebellum past for the postwar future.
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Zondervan A Year with C.S. Lewis
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Illustrated Worlds Religions
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Celebrating the Disciplines
Book SynopsisFor those who want to develop a deeper, more joyful inner life through the practice of Christian spiritual disciplines, this combination journal-workbook, designed for use by both individuals and groups, features spiritual reflections and journaling exercises for one full year. An indispensable companion to Foster's Celebration of Discipline which sold more than 500,000 hardcover copies.
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