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Friendship
Friendship is an experience everyone enjoys to some degree. The memory of a friendship includes gratitude for moments shared, feelings understood, anxieties lifted. And a feeling of self-worth is involved, knowing that something of oneself was given and found valuable by a friend. Readings and poems by such noted writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson help readers examine friendship from many angles, including these: What Is Friendship? Searching for Friendship The Value of Friendship Friendship--Is It Love? The Experience of Friendship Originally published in 1971,Friendshipis seen as a mind-blower, a fresh wind on the spirit, a glory in life--in other words, a necessity, as C. S. Lewis writes, not in order to live, but to make living worthwhile.
Mystics and Messiahs
In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. In fact, most of the frightening images and stereotypes surrounding fringe religious movements are traceable to the mid-nineteenth century when Mormons, Freemasons, and even Catholics were denounced for supposed ritualistic violence, fraud, and sexual depravity. But America has also been the home of an often hysterical anti-cult backlash. Jenkins offers an insightful new analysis of why cults arouse such fear and hatred both in the secular world and in mainstream churches, many of which were...
The Consciousness Reformation
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Experimentation in American Religion
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
Faith and the Presidency From George Washington to George W. Bush
Publisher description
The Meek and the Militant
An invaluable critical analysis of how religion shapes politics, encouraging both submission and, at times, revolution.
Humor for a Woman's Heart 2
The best-selling Humor for the Heart series has become a national favorite. This fourth book in the series, Humor for a Woman's Heart 2, is a second helping of the most popular book in the series. This humorous edition sees the lighter side of the joys, challenges, and adventures of being a woman in today's world. This series includes best-selling authors like Patsy Clairmont, Dr. James Dobson, Chonda Pierce, Martha Bolton, and many more. The humor in these hilarious books has the power to transform a down day into an optimistic adventure or an OK day into a celebration. These books are guaranteed to lift you above the mundane and give your heart a healthy dose of optimism and hope.
Humor for a Friend's Heart
If a cheerful heart can cure like medicine, this collection is an industrial-strength dose of delight. Nudged from the funny bones of such well-known authors as Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Brennan Manning, Luci Swindoll, G. Ron Darbee, Martha Bolton, and Phil Callaway, the forty-plus essays in this hilarious collection provide reasons to smile in practically every situation -- from the delivery room to the last laugh. Virtually no target is beyond the pointed pen of these quick-witted observers who celebrate friendship as they discuss dentures, bear suits, male bonding, Jell-O, and fishing. Accompanied by quick-read quips, it's a relaxing and affirming book that men and women of all ages would find laughable -- in the best sense of the word.
Fundamentalism, Mythos, and World Religions
Fundamentalism is widely feared and its influence is growing in many of the major world faiths. Arising in reaction against modernism, fundamentalism affirms a pre-Enlightenment paradigm in a post-Enlightenment era. The author supports a prediction that fundamentalists will continue to have power in a variety of religions. But their characteristic ahistorical, absolutistic, view will limit their outreach.
Business and Sales Humor Writing and Delivery Skills Guidebook
This book is a combination of two works by the authors, Sales Humor Delivery Skills and Sales Humor Writing Skills. An important skill in sales, and in any business situation, is the proper delivery and use of humor. And it can be learned. Sales Humor Delivery Skills teaches important elements of delivering effective humor. This book will not only teach some of the secrets of professional joke writing, but will also teach how to apply them to sales and business situations. This title is part of the highly acclaimed UniversityofHealthCare series on sales.
