Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers )
Margery Post Abbott;Margery Post Abbott
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The modern reputation of Friends in the United States and Europe is grounded in the re...
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Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers )
2012
The modern reputation of Friends in the United States and Europe is grounded in the relief work they have conducted in the presence and aftermath of war. Friends (also known as Quakers ) have coordinated the feeding and evacuation of children from war zones around the world. They have helped displaced persons without regard to politics. They have engaged in the relief of suffering in places as far-flung as Ireland, France, Germany, Ethiopia, Egypt, China, and India. Their work was acknowledged with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Friends Service Council of Great Britain. More often, however, Quakers live, worship, and work quietly, without seeking public attention for themselves. Now, the Friends are a truly worldwide body and are recognized by their Christ-centered message of integrity and simplicity, as well as their nonviolent stance and affirmation of the belief that all people—women as well as men—may be called to the ministry.The expanded second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers ) relates the history of the Friends through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, significant figures, places, activities, and periods. This book is an excellent access point for scholars and students, who will find the overviews and sources for further research provided by this book to be enormously helpful.
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Society of Friends--History--DictionariesContent provider:
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Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers , and the Civil War : 'A Trial of Principle and Faith'
William C. Kashatus;William C. Kashatus
This unique addition to Civil War literature examines the extensive influence Quaker b...
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Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers , and the Civil War : 'A Trial of Principle and Faith'
2014
This unique addition to Civil War literature examines the extensive influence Quaker belief and practice had on Lincoln's decisions relative to slavery, including his choice to emancipate the slaves.An important contribution to Lincoln scholarship, this thought-provoking work argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Religious Society of Friends faced a similar dilemma: how to achieve emancipation without extending the bloodshed and hardship of war. Organized chronologically so readers can see changes in Lincoln's thinking over time, the book explores the congruence of the 16th president's relationship with Quaker belief and his political and religious thought on three specific issues: emancipation, conscientious objection, and the relief and education of freedmen. Distinguishing between the reality of Lincoln's relationship with the Quakers and the mythology that has emerged over time, the book differs significantly from previous works in at least two ways. It shows how Lincoln skillfully navigated a relationship with one of the most vocal and politically active religious groups of the 19th century, and it documents the practical ways in which a shared belief in the'Doctrine of Necessity'affected the president's decisions. In addition to gaining new insights about Lincoln, readers will also come away from this book with a better understanding of Quaker positions on abolition and pacifism and a new appreciation for the Quaker contributions to the Union cause.
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Quakers--United States--History--19th century - Society of Friends--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Living with Conflict : A Challenge to a Peace Church
Susan Robson;Susan Robson
In Living with Conflict: A Challenge to a Peace Church, Susan Robson explores the disc...
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Living with Conflict : A Challenge to a Peace Church
2014
In Living with Conflict: A Challenge to a Peace Church, Susan Robson explores the discomforts and denials that can arise when an organization committed to doing good suspects that it is not living up to its declared aims. This case study of Quakers in the United Kingdom closely examines the challenge of living constructively despite ever-present internal conflicts. Drawing on ideas from contemporary organizational theory, Robson's study points the way forward for Quakers and other value-based groups.Living with Conflict compares the evolution of the Quaker peace testimony to the experience of other peaceful churches, in both their relationships to the wider world and how they handle congregational conflict. It analyzes conflicts in small church congregations, looking at triggers and responses, past and present, describing the consequences of challenging community narratives and creating counter-narratives.Students of peace and conflict studies, organizational studies, and the sociology of religion will find this study thought-provoking. Living with Conflict is also for anyone who has ever joined an organization they thought was welcoming and safe, working together for the common good, only to see it unravel into a flurry of acrimonious e-mails, slammed doors, tears, legal proceedings, even tragedy.
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Conflict management--Religious aspects--Society of Friends--Case studies - Society of Friends--Great Britain--Case studies - Church controversies--Society of Friends--Case studies - Conflict management--Case studiesContent provider:
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The Quakers in America
Thomas D. Hamm;Thomas D. Hamm
The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends a...
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The Quakers in America
2003
The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect. Known best for their long-standing commitment to social activism, pacifism, fair treatment for Native Americans, and equality for women, the Quakers have influenced American thought and society far out of proportion to their relatively small numbers. Whether in the foreign policy arena (the American Friends Service Committee), in education (the Friends schools), or in the arts (prominent Quakers profiled in this book include James Turrell, Bonnie Raitt, and James Michener), Quakers have left a lasting imprint on American life. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends ; an introduction to its beliefs and practices; and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings that illuminate basic Quaker concepts and theology and reflect the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. Yet the book also examines commonalities among American Friends that demonstrate a fundamental unity within the religion: their commitments to worship, the ministry of all believers, decision making based on seeking spiritual consensus rather than voting, a simple lifestyle, and education. Thomas Hamm shows that Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate a number of central questions: Is Quakerism necessarily Christian? Where should religious authority reside? Is the self sacred? How does one transmit faith to children? How do gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior? Hamm's analysis of these debates reveals a vital religion that prizes both unity and diversity.
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Society of Friends--United StatesContent provider:
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Inside U.S.A.
John Gunther;John Gunther
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunther's classic portrait of America John Gu...
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Inside U.S.A.
2021
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Gunther's classic portrait of America John Gunther's Inside series were among the most popular books of reportage of the 1930s and 1940s. For Inside U.S.A., his magnum opus, Gunther set out from California and visited every state in the country, offering frank, lucid, and humorous observations along the way in what legendary publisher Robert Gottlieb, writing in the New York Times, calls Gunther's “fluent, personal, casual, snappy” voice. Gunther's insights on race, labor, the impact of massive New Deal public works projects, rural life, urbanization, and much more yield fascinating insight into life in a postwar America that had vaulted into the status of the world's preeminent superpower. This seventy-fifth-anniversary edition of Inside U.S.A. provides an invaluable picture of America as it was and is both a delight to read and filled with insights that remain deeply relevant today.
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Evangelical News : Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s
Anja-Maria Bassimir;Anja-Maria Bassimir
A comprehensive study of evangelical magazine discourse during the 1970s and 1980s and...
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Evangelical News : Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s
2022
A comprehensive study of evangelical magazine discourse during the 1970s and 1980s and how it navigated and sustained religious convictions in a time of dramatic social change The 1970s and 1980s were a tumultuous period in US history. In tandem with a dramatic political shift to the right, evangelicalism also entered the public discourse as a distinct religious movement and was immediately besieged by cultural appropriations and internal fragmentations. Americans in general and evangelicals in particular grappled with issues and ideas such as feminism, abortion, birth control, and restructuring traditional roles for women and the family. During this time, there was a surge in readership for evangelical periodicals such as Christianity Today, Moody Monthly, Eternity, and Post-Americans/Sojourners as well as the feminist newsletter Daughters of Sarah. While each of these magazines—and other publications and media—contributed to and participated in the overall dissemination of evangelical ideology, they also had their own outlooks and political leanings concerning hot-button issues. In Evangelical News: Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s, Anja-Maria Bassimir presents a nuanced view of evangelicalism in the late twentieth century through the lens of the movement's own media. Bassimir argues that community can be produced in discourse, especially when shared rhetoric, concepts, and perspectives signal belonging. To accomplish this, Evangelical News traces the emergence of evangelical social and political awareness in the 1970s to the height of its power as a political program. The chapters investigate such topics as how evangelicals reenvisioned gender norms and relations in light of the feminist movement, the use of childhood as a symbol of unspoiled innocence, and the place of evangelicals as political actors.
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Christian conservatism--Periodicals--History--20th century - Evangelicalism--Periodicals--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Technical Innovation in American History : An Encyclopedia of Science and Technology [3 Volumes]
Rosanne Welch;Peg A. Lamphier;Rosanne Welch;Peg A. Lamphier
From the invention of eyeglasses to the Internet, this three-volume set examines the p...
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Technical Innovation in American History : An Encyclopedia of Science and Technology [3 Volumes]
2019
From the invention of eyeglasses to the Internet, this three-volume set examines the pivotal effects of inventions on society, providing a fascinating history of technology and innovations in the United States from the earliest European colonization to the present.Technical Innovation in American History surveys the history of technology, documenting the chronological and thematic connections between specific inventions, technological systems, individuals, and events that have contributed to the history of science and technology in the United States. Covering eras from colonial times to the present day in three chronological volumes, the entries include innovations in fields such as architecture, civil engineering, transportation, energy, mining and oil industries, chemical industries, electronics, computer and information technology, communications (television, radio, and print), agriculture and food technology, and military technology.The A–Z entries address key individuals, events, organizations, and legislation related to themes such as industry, consumer and medical technology, military technology, computer technology, and space science, among others, enabling readers to understand how specific inventions, technological systems, individuals, and events influenced the history, cultural development, and even self-identity of the United States and its people. The information also spotlights how American culture, the U.S. government, and American society have specifically influenced technological development.
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Technological innovations--United States--History--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Great Events from History: Human Rights, Second Edition
Editors of Salem Press;Editors of Salem Press
This 4-volume work traces the path of civil liberties and natural rights through histo...
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Great Events from History: Human Rights, Second Edition
2019; Vol. Volume I
This 4-volume work traces the path of civil liberties and natural rights through history, from ancient codes to modern movements through pivotal events that have directly affected people and their freedoms.
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Human rights--HistoryContent provider:
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Breaking White Supremacy : Martin Luther King Jr. And the Black Social Gospel
Dorrien, Gary J.;Dorrien, Gary J.
This magisterial follow-up to The New Abolition, a Grawemeyer Award winner, tells the ...
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Breaking White Supremacy : Martin Luther King Jr. And the Black Social Gospel
2018
This magisterial follow-up to The New Abolition, a Grawemeyer Award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel's history. The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on U.S. society, but failed to break white supremacy. The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., soared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with him. Yet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlooked. In his latest book, Gary Dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance today. This part of the story centers around King and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading America's greatest liberation movement.
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Christian sociology--United States - African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century - Civil rights movements--History--20th century - African Americans--ReligionContent provider:
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The Devil’s Music : How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
Randall J. Stephens;Randall J. Stephens
When rock'n'roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and S...
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The Devil’s Music : How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
2018
When rock'n'roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music's demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar industry. The Devil's Music tells the story of this transformation.Rock's origins lie in part with the energetic Southern Pentecostal churches where Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, and other pioneers of the genre worshipped as children. Randall J. Stephens shows that the music, styles, and ideas of tongue-speaking churches powerfully influenced these early performers. As rock'n'roll's popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this “blasphemous jungle music,” with little success. By the 1960s, Christian leaders feared the Beatles really were more popular than Jesus, as John Lennon claimed.Stephens argues that in the early days of rock'n'roll, faith served as a vehicle for whites'racial fears. A decade later, evangelical Christians were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the music of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals embraced Christian rock as a way to express Jesus's message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens's compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today.
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Rock music--United States--History and criticism - Rock music--History and criticism - Rock music--Religious aspects--Christianity - Christian rock music--United States--History and criticism - Fundamentalism--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Pennsylvania Germans : An Interpretive Encyclopedia
Simon J. Bronner;Joshua R. Brown;Simon J. Bronner;Joshua R. Brown
This comprehensive encyclopedia—the first of its kind—maps out three hundred years of ...
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Pennsylvania Germans : An Interpretive Encyclopedia
2017
This comprehensive encyclopedia—the first of its kind—maps out three hundred years of German history and culture in Pennsylvania and beyond.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLDestined to become the standard reference on Pennsylvania Germans (also known as the “Pennsylvania Dutch”), this book is the first survey of this extensive American group in nearly seventy-five years. Nineteen broad interpretive essays written by a distinguished group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, and folklorists tell the rich and nuanced story of Pennsylvania German history and culture. United by a distinct (and distinctly American) language, the Pennsylvania Germans have been slower to assimilate than other ethnic groups. This sweeping volume reveals, though, that the group is much less homogenous and isolated than was previously thought. From architecture, media, and farming techniques to food, folklore, and medicine, the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants display a wide range of cultural variation. In Pennsylvania Germans, editors Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown broaden the geographical and social coverage of the group, touching both on Pennsylvanian communities and the Pennsylvania German diaspora, including settlements in Canada and Mexico. They also expand historical coverage of the Pennsylvania Germans to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Beautifully illustrated, this volume—while paying tribute to the historical and cultural legacy of the Pennsylvania Germans—is the most comprehensive book on the subject to date.Contributors: R. Troy Boyer, Simon J. Bronner, Joshua R. Brown, Edsel Burdge Jr., William W. Donner, John B. Frantz, Mark Häberlein, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, Donald B. Kraybill, David W. Kriebel, Gabrielle Lanier, Mark L. Louden, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Lisa Minardi, Steven M. Nolt, Candace Perry, Sheila Rohrer, and Diane Wenger
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German Americans--Pennsylvania--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Preventing War and Promoting Peace : A Guide for Health Professionals
William H. Wiist;Shelley K. White;William H. Wiist;Shelley K. White
Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is an interdiscip...
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Preventing War and Promoting Peace : A Guide for Health Professionals
2017
Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is an interdisciplinary study of how pervasive militarism creates a propensity for war through the influence of academia, economic policy, the defense industry, and the news media. Comprising contributions by academics and practitioners from the fields of public health, medicine, nursing, law, sociology, psychology, political science, and peace and conflict studies, as well as representatives from organizations active in war prevention, the book emphasizes the underlying preventable causes of war, particularly militarism, and focuses on the methods health professionals can use to prevent war. Preventing War and Promoting Peace provides hard-hitting facts about the devastating health effects of war and a broad perspective on war and health, presenting a new paradigm for the proactive engagement of health professions in the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.
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Violence--Prevention - Medical personnel--Professional ethics - War--Health aspectsContent provider:
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An Historical Study of United States Religious Responses to the Vietnam War : A Matter of National Morality
Nutt, Rick;Nutt, Rick
One of the great puzzles in the historiography of American religion is the dearth of s...
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An Historical Study of United States Religious Responses to the Vietnam War : A Matter of National Morality
2012
One of the great puzzles in the historiography of American religion is the dearth of studies on the role of religion during the Vietnam War. The untimely death of Walter Capps, member of Congress and former professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, probably contributes to the relative absence of such studies, but it remains something of a mystery why so few scholars have stepped into the breach. This is all the more puzzling when one recalls that the Vietnam era in American history was a time of extraordinary religious ferment. Young people in particular, disillusioned with tradition and distrustful of all things institutional, embarked on an unprecedented quest for spiritual fulfillment and religious experimentation, a journey that introduced them – and, by extension, all Americans – to an array of gurus, various meditative techniques, and the rich panoply of Eastern religions. Finally, one has only to think back over the twentieth century to realize that some of the most important theological reflection has occurred during times of war; the names Richard Rubenstein, Jacques Ellul, Karl Barth, Elie Wiesel, and the Niebuhr brothers, Reinhold and H. Richard, come immediately to mind. The American response to the Vietnam War was not without its religious dimension. Consider the activism of William Sloane Coffin, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Dorothy Day, A. J. Muste, and another set of brothers, the Berrigans, Phillip and Daniel, not to mention the work of organizations like the American Friends Service Committee, Clergy and Laity Concerned, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. When Martin Luther King Jr. strode to the lectern at New York City's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, a year to the day before his tragic assassination in Memphis, he added his considerable moral voice to the chorus of religious opponents of the war. Not all religious voices opposed the war, of course, and these ranks included a spectrum of voices from Billy Graham and Carl McIntire to John Bennett and Paul Ramsey. It is in sifting through these complexities surrounding religion during the Vietnam War that Rick Nutt's work is so important. After providing a brief and useful history of the Vietnam War, Nutt delves into the vagaries of religious life during the Vietnam era in American history. The author finds that those religious leaders who supported the war generally did so because they, like Lyndon Johnson himself, viewed it through the prism of the cold war. Add to that, very often, the notion of American exceptionalism – the conviction that the United States occupies a special place in the divine economy – and you had a very powerful rationale for prosecuting the war in Southeast Asia. Nutt also provides a nuanced reading of various theologians and their attitudes toward the war. American exceptionalism was also invoked by opponents of the war to call Americans to a higher moral standard. The author finds that the just war doctrine also cut both ways, invoked both to defend and to denounce the war. Such are the complexities of a vexed and vexing age. And Nutt demonstrates evolving attitudes toward the war, showing how people like John Bennett and organizations like the National Council of Churches altered their positions over time. The author expertly navigates these troubled waters, and the result is a judicious treatment of religious attitudes toward the Vietnam War. This is a good and important book, exhaustively researched and compellingly presented.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Religious aspects - Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United StatesContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States
George Thomas Kurian;Mark A. Lamport;George Thomas Kurian;Mark A. Lamport
From the Founding Fathers through the present, Christianity has exercised powerful inf...
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Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States
2016
From the Founding Fathers through the present, Christianity has exercised powerful influence in the United States—from its role in shaping politics and social institutions to its hand in inspiring art and culture. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States outlines the myriad roles Christianity has played and continues to play. This masterful five-volume reference work includes biographies of major figures in the Christian church in the United States, influential religious documents and Supreme Court decisions, and information on theology and theologians, denominations, faith-based organizations, immigration, art—from decorative arts and film to music and literature—evangelism and crusades, the significant role of women, racial issues, civil religion, and more.The first volume opens with introductory essays that provide snapshots of Christianity in the U.S. from pre-colonial times to the present, as well as a statistical profile and a timeline of key dates and events. Entries are organized from A to Z. The final volume closes with essays exploring impressions of Christianity in the United States from other faiths and other parts of the world, as well as a select yet comprehensive bibliography. Appendices help readers locate entries by thematic section and author, and a comprehensive index further aids navigation.
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Christianity--United States--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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War Is Not a Game : The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
Nan Levinson;Nan Levinson
War Is Not a Game tells the story of this new soldiers'antiwar movement, showing why i...
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War Is Not a Game : The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
2015
War Is Not a Game tells the story of this new soldiers'antiwar movement, showing why it was born, how it quickly grew, where it has struggled, what it accomplished, and how it continues to resonate in the national conversation about our military and our wars. Nan Levinson reveals the individuals behind the movement, painting an unforgettable portrait of these working-class veterans who refused to be seen as simply tragic victims or battlefront heroes and instead banded together to become leaders of a national organization. The paperback is updated with a new foreword by the author.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011--Protest movements - Iraq War, 2003-2011--Veterans--Political activity--United States - Soldiers--Political activity--United States--History--21st century - Peace movements--United States--History--21st century - Veterans--Political activity--United States--History--21st centuryContent provider:
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The Civil Rights Movement in America : From Black Nationalism to the Women's Political Council
Peter B. Levy;Peter B. Levy
This single-volume work provides a concise, up-to-date, and reliable reference work th...
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The Civil Rights Movement in America : From Black Nationalism to the Women's Political Council
2015
This single-volume work provides a concise, up-to-date, and reliable reference work that students, teachers, and general readers can turn to for a comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement-a period of time incorporating events that shaped today's society.This single volume encyclopedia not only provides accessible A–Z entries about the well-known people and events of the Civil Rights Movement but also offers coverage of lesser-known contributors to the movement's overall success and outcomes. This comprehensive work provides both authoritative ready reference and curricular content presented in a lively and accessible format that will support inquiry, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of the importance of the time period.The Civil Rights Movement in America: From Black Nationalism to the Women's Political Council provides high school readers with accessible factual information and sources for further exploration. Its entries serve to document how the movement eventually toppled Jim Crow and inspired broader struggles for human rights, including the women's and gay liberation movements in the United States and around the globe. Just as importantly, the events of the civil rights movement serve to demonstrate the ability of ordinary people such as Rosa Parks to alter the course of history-an apt lesson for all readers.
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Civil rights workers--United States--Biography--Encyclopedias - Civil rights movements--United States--History--Encyclopedias - African Americans--Civil rights--History--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Free Jazz/Black Power
Philippe Carles;Jean-Louis Comolli;Philippe Carles;Jean-Louis Comolli
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/...
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Free Jazz/Black Power
2015
In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long-ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound's ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the early 1970s. The two offered a political and cultural history of Black presence in the United States to shed more light on the dubious role played by jazz criticism in racial oppression. This analysis of jazz criticism and its production is astutely self-aware. It critiques the critics, building a work of cultural studies in a time and place where the practice was virtually unknown. The authors reached radical conclusions—free jazz was a revolutionary reaction against white domination, was the musical counterpart to the Black Power movement, and was a musical style that demanded a similar political commitment. The impact of this book is difficult to overstate, as it made readers reconsider their response to African American music. In some cases, it changed the way musicians thought about and played jazz. Free Jazz/Black Power remains indispensable to the study of the relation of American free jazz to European audiences, critics, and artists. This monumental critique caught the spirit of its time and realigned that zeitgeist.
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Jazz--Social aspects - Free jazz--History and criticism - Jazz--History and criticism - African Americans--History--1964-Content provider:
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A Nation of Outsiders : How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
Grace Elizabeth Hale;Grace Elizabeth Hale
At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfi...
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A Nation of Outsiders : How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
2011
At mid-century, Americans increasingly fell in love with characters like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One, musicians like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, and activists like the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. These emotions enabled some middle-class whites to cut free of their own histories and identify with those who, while lacking economic, political, or social privilege, seemed to possess instead vital cultural resources and a depth of feeling not found in'grey flannel'America. In this wide-ranging and vividly written cultural history, Grace Elizabeth Hale sheds light on why so many white middle-class Americans chose to re-imagine themselves as outsiders in the second half of the twentieth century and explains how this unprecedented shift changed American culture and society. Love for outsiders launched the politics of both the New Left and the New Right. From the mid-sixties through the eighties, it flourished in the hippie counterculture, the back-to-the-land movement, the Jesus People movement, and among fundamentalist and Pentecostal Christians working to position their traditional isolation and separatism as strengths. It changed the very meaning of'authenticity'and'community.'Ultimately, the romance of the outsider provided a creative resolution to an intractable mid-century cultural and political conflict-the struggle between the desire for self-determination and autonomy and the desire for a morally meaningful and authentic life.
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Dissenters--United States--History--20th century - Counterculture--United States--History--20th century - Popular culture--United States--History--20th century - Middle class white people--United States--Social conditions--20th century - Middle class--United States--History--20th century - Social psychology--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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The Hidden 1970s : Histories of Radicalism
Dan Berger;Dan Berger
The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of a long era of profound so...
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The Hidden 1970s : Histories of Radicalism
2010
The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of a long era of profound societal change and an essential component of the decade before-several of the most iconic events of'the sixties'occurred in the ten years that followed. The Hidden 1970s explores the distinctiveness of those years, a time when radicals tried to change the world as the world changed around them. This powerful collection is a compelling assessment of left-wing social movements in a period many have described as dominated by conservatism or confusion. Scholars examine critical and largely buried legacies of the 1970s. The decade of Nixon's fall and Reagan's rise also saw widespread indigenous militancy, prisoner uprisings, transnational campaigns for self-determination, pacifism, and queer theories of play as political action. Contributors focus on diverse topics, including the internationalization of Black Power and Native sovereignty, organizing for Puerto Rican independence among Latinos and whites, and women's self-defense. Essays and ideas trace the roots of struggles from the 1960s through the 1970s, providing fascinating insight into the myriad ways that radical social movements shaped American political culture in the 1970s and the many ways they continue to do so today.
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Political culture--United States--History--20th century - Radicalism--United States--History--20th century - Social movements--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Into the Fray : How NBC's Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News
Tom Mascaro;Tom Mascaro
2012 James W. Tankard Book Award WinnerFrom 1961 to 1989, a committed group of documen...
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Into the Fray : How NBC's Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News
2012
2012 James W. Tankard Book Award WinnerFrom 1961 to 1989, a committed group of documentary journalists from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) reported the stories of America's overseas conflicts. Stuart Schulberg supplied film evidence to prosecute Nazi war criminals and established documentary units in postwar Berlin and Paris. NBC newsman David Brinkley created the template for prime-time news in 1961 and bore the scars to prove it. In 1964 Ted Yates and Bob Rogers produced a documentary warning of the pitfalls in Vietnam. Yates was later shot and killed in Jerusalem on the first day of the Six-Day War while producing a documentary for NBC News.In Into the Fray, Tom Mascaro vividly recounts the characters and experiences that helped create a unique, colorful documentary film crew based at the Washington bureau of NBC News. From the Kennedy era through the Reagan years, the journalists covered wars, rebellions, the Central Intelligence Agency, covert actions, the Pentagon, military preparedness, and world and American cultures. They braved conflicts and crises to tell the stories that Americans needed to see and hear, and in the process they changed the face of journalism. Mascaro also looks at the social changes in and around the unit itself, including the struggles and triumphs of women and African Americans in the field of television documentary.Into the Fray is the story of adventure, loyalty to reason, and life and death in the service of broadcast journalism.
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Documentary television programs--United States--History--20th century - Television broadcasting of news--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Sports Around the World : History, Culture, and Practice [4 Volumes]
John Nauright;John Nauright
This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting c...
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Sports Around the World : History, Culture, and Practice [4 Volumes]
2012
This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have transcended their sports.Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport, international relations and sport, and tourism and sport, as well as essays on sports history, culture, and practice in world regions—for example, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and Oceania—in order to provide a more global perspective. These essays are followed by entries on specific sports, world athletes, stadiums and arenas, famous games and matches, and major controversies. Spanning topics as varied as modern professional cycling to the fictional movie Rocky to the deadly ball game of the ancient Mayans, the first three volumes contain overview essays and entries for specific sports that have been and are currently practiced around the world. The fourth volume provides a compendium of information on the winners of major sporting competitions from around the world.Readers will gain invaluable insights into how sports have been enjoyed throughout all of human culture, and more fully comprehend their cultural contexts. The entries provide suggestions for further reading on each topic—helpful to general readers, students with school projects, university students and academics alike. Additionally, the four-volume Sports Around the World spotlights key charismatic athletes who have changed a sport or become more than just an outstanding player.
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Sports--Social aspects - Sports--Cross-cultural studiesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Anointed : Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age
Randall J. Stephens;Karl W. Giberson;Randall J. Stephens;Karl W. Giberson
American evangelicalism often appears as a politically monolithic, textbook red-state ...
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The Anointed : Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age
2011
American evangelicalism often appears as a politically monolithic, textbook red-state fundamentalism that elected George W. Bush, opposes gay marriage, abortion, and evolution, and promotes apathy about global warming. Prominent public figures hold forth on these topics, speaking with great authority for millions of followers. Authors Stephens and Giberson, with roots in the evangelical tradition, argue that this popular impression understates the diversity within evangelicalism—an often insular world where serious disagreements are invisible to secular and religiously liberal media consumers. Yet, in the face of this diversity, why do so many people follow leaders with dubious credentials when they have other options? Why do tens of millions of Americans prefer to get their science from Ken Ham, founder of the creationist Answers in Genesis, who has no scientific expertise, rather than from his fellow evangelical Francis Collins, current Director of the National Institutes of Health?Exploring intellectual authority within evangelicalism, the authors reveal how America's populist ideals, anti-intellectualism, and religious free market, along with the concept of anointing—being chosen by God to speak for him like the biblical prophets—established a conservative evangelical leadership isolated from the world of secular arts and sciences.Today, charismatic and media-savvy creationists, historians, psychologists, and biblical exegetes continue to receive more funding and airtime than their more qualified counterparts. Though a growing minority of evangelicals engage with contemporary scholarship, the community's authority structure still encourages the “anointed” to assume positions of leadership.
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Church and state--United States - Christianity and politics--United States - Christianity and culture--United States - Intellect--Religious aspects--Christianity - Evangelicalism--United States - Conservatism--Religious aspects--Christianity - Christian conservatism--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Kingdom to Commune : Protestant Pacifist Culture Between World War I and the Vietnam Era
Patricia Appelbaum;Patricia Appelbaum
American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners'ethical...
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Kingdom to Commune : Protestant Pacifist Culture Between World War I and the Vietnam Era
2009
American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners'ethical and philosophical commitments. Patricia Appelbaum argues that Protestant pacifism, which constituted the religious center of the large-scale peace movement in the United States after World War I, is best understood as a culture that developed dynamically in the broader context of American religious, historical, and social currents. Exploring piety, practice, and material religion, Appelbaum describes a surprisingly complex culture of Protestant pacifism expressed through social networks, iconography, vernacular theology, individual spiritual practice, storytelling, identity rituals, and cooperative living. Between World War I and the Vietnam War, she contends, a paradigm shift took place in the Protestant pacifist movement. Pacifism moved from a mainstream position to a sectarian and marginal one, from an embrace of modernity to skepticism about it, and from a Christian center to a purely pacifist one, with an informal, flexible theology. The book begins and ends with biographical profiles of two very different pacifists, Harold Gray and Marjorie Swann. Their stories distill the changing religious culture of American pacifism revealed in Kingdom to Commune.
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Pacifism--United States--History--20th century - Nonviolence--United States--History--20th century - Peace--Religious aspects--Historic peace churches - Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Historic peace churches - Pacifism--Religious aspects--Historic peace churchesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Great Events From History
Gorman, Robert F.;Gorman, Robert F.
Some of the essays originally appeared in other Salem Press sets. New material has bee...
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Great Events From History
2008
Some of the essays originally appeared in other Salem Press sets. New material has been added.
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Twentieth centuryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
A Time of Paradox : America Since 1890
Glen Jeansonne;Glen Jeansonne
In this lively and provocative synthesis, distinguished historian Glen Jeansonne explo...
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A Time of Paradox : America Since 1890
2006
In this lively and provocative synthesis, distinguished historian Glen Jeansonne explores the people and events that shaped America in the twentieth century. Comprehensive in scope, A Time of Paradox offers a balanced look at the political, diplomatic, social and cultural developments of the last century while focusing on the diverse and sometimes contradictory human experiences that characterized this dynamic period. Designed with the student in mind, this cogent text provides the most up to date analysis available, offering insight into the divisive election of 2004, the War on Terror and the Gulf Coast hurricanes. Substantive biographies on figures ranging from Samuel Insull to Madonna give students a more personalized view of the men and women who influenced American society over the past hundred years.
