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Old-Time Religion Embracing Modernist Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Old-Time Religion Embracing Modernist Culture

Old-Time Religion Embracing Modernist Culture focuses on the founding generation of American fundamentalism in the 1920s and 1930s and their interactions with modernity. While there were culture wars, there was also an embrace. Through a book culture, fostered by liberal Protestants, and thriving periodicals, they strengthened their place in American culture and their adaptation helps explain their resilience in the decades to come. The most significant adaptation to modernist culture was the embrace of the modern, secular university as a model for evangelical higher education. After political battles along sectarian lines in the twenties, fundamentalists learned to compete in a pluralist so...

Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood

This book examines major British and American missionary films during the Golden Age of Hollywood to explore the significance of race, gender, and spirituality in relation to the lives of the missionaries portrayed in film during the middle third of the twentieth century. Film both influences and reflects culture, and racial, gender, and religious identities are some of the most debated issues globally today. In the movies explored in this book, missionary interactions with various people groups reflect the historical changes which took place during this time.

The Spirit of the Game
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

The Spirit of the Game

Displays of religious faith have become commonplace on America's baseball diamonds, basketball courts, football fields, and beyond. How did religion become so entwined with big-time sports in America? The Spirit of the Game provides the answer to this question by offering a sweeping history of the Christian athlete movement in the United States--and its impact on American religion and the religion of sports.

French Protestantism’s Struggle for Survival and Legitimacy (1517–1905)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

French Protestantism’s Struggle for Survival and Legitimacy (1517–1905)

At the dawn of the Protestant Reformation, French Protestants began their struggle for religious equality and civil rights. They faced opposition from the monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church. For centuries the Catholic Church had influenced every aspect of life--cultural, educational, social, political, and economic. Protestantism arrived as a foreign invader and disrupted the Catholic monopoly. Protestants did not receive individual civil and religious rights until the French Revolution in 1789. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen announced a new era of religious tolerance. Official recognition of the Protestant religion was not granted until Napoleon came to power an...

States of Dependency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

States of Dependency

This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.

Liberalism and Its Discontents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Liberalism and Its Discontents

Considering the role of alternate political traditions in liberalism's downfall, 'Liberalism and its Discontents' shows how historical interpretation has been a reflection of liberal assumptions.

The 20th Century O-Z
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1418

The 20th Century O-Z

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

Matthew Sutton's definitive study of Aimee Semple McPherson reveals the woman, most often remembered as the hypocritical vamp in Sinclair Lewis's 'Elmer Gantry', as a trail-blazing pioneer.

Women of the American South
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Women of the American South

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-11
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Never before has a book of southern history so successfully integrated the experiences of white and non-white women. Discrediting the myth of the Southern belle, the book brings to light the lives of Cherokee women, Appalachian "coal daughters", and Jewish women in the South. The essays--all but one published here for the first time--fill crucial gaps in southern history and women's history.

North Carolina
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 536

North Carolina

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