Bøger i Religion in the South serien
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- Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War
373,95 kr. Daly focuses on the culture of antebellum America and the debate on the morality of slavery that obsessed people of the period. He argues that antislavery and proslavery emerged from the same evangelical roots; both sides interpreted the Bible in light of individualism and free market economics.
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- 373,95 kr.
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- Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina
438,95 kr. Explores how religious and racial diversity in the Cape Fear region have functioned as a microcosm for the South. This book examines the ways in which religion can affect diverse aspects of life such as architecture and race relations.
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- 438,95 kr.
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- Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century
498,95 kr. Between the Civil War and the turn of the last century, Southern Baptists gained prominence in the religious life of the South. The popular belief in a doctrine of "once saved, always saved" led progressive Baptists to claim that moderates, once saved, did not address the serious social and political problems that faced many in the South.
- Bog
- 498,95 kr.
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- Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801
368,95 kr. After the Moravian Brethren arrived in America they maintained their connections with Germany, leaving authority for deciding governmental and religious issues across the sea. But, as the children born in Salem became used to more freedoms, the stresses of transatlantic government were revealed.
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- 368,95 kr.
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- A Leader of the Progressive-Era South
438,95 kr. William Louis Poteat (1856-1938), the son of a Baptist slave-holder, became one of the most out-spoken liberals during his lifetime. This biography examines his beliefs, such as his advocacy for prohibition and for the teaching of evolution in schools, and his support for eugenics.
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- 438,95 kr.
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- The Life and Legacy of Elder Shubal Stearns
448,95 kr. Shubal Stearns, a New England Baptist minister, led a group of sixteen Baptists -- now dubbed "The Old Brethren" by Old School Baptists churches in Appalachia -- from New England to North Carolina in the mid-eighteenth century.
- Bog
- 448,95 kr.
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- Inside the Tents and Tabernacles of American Revivalists
513,95 kr. " Award-winning journalist Patsy Sims journeyed through the back roads of the South, along the sawdust trail, to take part in the lives of seven American revivalists, their families, crew members, and followers.
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- 513,95 kr.
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- J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism
548,95 kr. Barry Hankins traces Norris, the "Texas Cyclone," from his boyhood in small-town Texas to his death in 1952. Despite scandals, Norris was a man of considerable public influence who traveled the owrkd, corresponded with congressmen, and attended president's Hoover's inaguration at Hoover's invitation.
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- 548,95 kr.
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- Civil War to Civil Rights
448,95 kr. Meeting at an African American college in North Carolina in 1959, a group of black and white Episcopalians organized the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity and pledged to oppose all distinctions based on race, ethnicity, and social class.
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- 448,95 kr.
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- Beginnings of the Bible Belt
373,95 kr. Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God.
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- 373,95 kr.
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- Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970
593,95 kr. Southern Baptists had long considered themselves a missionary people, but when, after World War II, they embarked on a dramatic expansion of missionary efforts, they confronted headlong the problem of racism.
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- 593,95 kr.