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John Mather Austin's "Golden Steps" is a large book that shows how lots the author loves the Universalist faith and desires to assist readers locate their very own religious route. The book, which become written within the 1800s, is sort of a moral compass due to the fact it's miles a set of thoughts, notes, and thoughts approximately Christian standards and Universalist beliefs. John Mather Austin is the pinnacle of the Christian Ambassador and a terrific Universalist minister. He brings his expertise of religion to "Golden Steps." Thought-frightening thoughts and lessons are preparing in this work to get human beings to head on a tremendous and emotionally satisfying adventure. A lot of pe...
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During the 1850s, a surprising number of Americans believed that the spirits of the deceased could be contacted through trance mediums and seances. Many of the radical leaders of the anti-slavery movement, women's rights, the temperance movement, prison reform and labor reform were involved in spiritualism. Among the liberal religious denominations, Universalism was the one most affected by this movement. This amazing chapter in American religious history present a vast array of characters -- visionaries; prophets and inventors; pioneers in psychic healing and public lecturers who took to the podium, while in trance, to deliver communications from the spirits and to simultaneously agitate for reforms in society. Drawing from journals, newspapers, manuscripts and the personal papers of spiritualists and their opponents, The Other Side of Salvation is a fascinating read for anyone interested in America's religious history. Book jacket.
"Robin Bernstein relates a bloody tale of race, murder, and injustice that forces us to rethink the origins and consequences of America's immoral system of prisons for profit. Bernstein brings to life the story of William Freeman, a free Black man who in 1840 was forced into unpaid labor as an inmate of Auburn State Prison in New York. After his release, he murdered four members of a white family, as revenge for the theft of his labor. His trial saw the crystallization of a nefarious ideology-the idea that African Americans are inherently criminal-yet it also shaped Auburn as an important node in the long battle for Black freedom"--