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Sins of Christendom
Evangelical criticism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dates back to the earliest days of the Church. Nathaniel Wiewora uses the diverse animus expressed by evangelicals to illuminate how they used an imaginary Church as a proxy to disagree, attack, compromise, and settle differences among themselves. As Wiewora shows, the evangelical practice to contrast itself with the emerging faith not only encompassed but also went beyond religious matters. If Joseph Smith was accused of muddling religious truth, he and his followers also faced accusations of immoral economic practices and a sinful regard for wealth that reflected worries within the evangelical world. Attacks on Latter-day Saints' emotional religious displays, the Book of Mormon's authenticity, and the dangerous ideas represented by Nauvoo paralleled similar conflicts. Wiewora traces how the failure to blunt the Church's success led evangelicals to change their own methods and pursue the religious education infrastructure that came to define parts of the movement.
Sins of Christendom
Evangelical criticism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dates back to the earliest days of the Church. Nathaniel Wiewora uses the diverse animus expressed by evangelicals to illuminate how they used an imaginary Church as a proxy to disagree, attack, compromise, and settle differences among themselves. As Wiewora shows, the evangelical practice to contrast itself with the emerging faith not only encompassed but also went beyond religious matters. If Joseph Smith was accused of muddling religious truth, he and his followers also faced accusations of immoral economic practices and a sinful regard for wealth that reflected worries within the evangelical world. Attacks on Latter-day Saints’ emotional religious displays, the Book of Mormon’s authenticity, and the dangerous ideas represented by Nauvoo paralleled similar conflicts. Wiewora traces how the failure to blunt the Church’s success led evangelicals to change their own methods and pursue the religious education infrastructure that came to define parts of the movement.
Making the Grade
A significant factor for many people deciding where to live is the quality of the local school district, with superior schools creating a price premium for housing. The result is a “race to the top,” as all school districts attempt to improve their performance in order to attract homebuyers. Given the importance of school districts to the daily lives of children and families, it is surprising that their evolution has not received much attention. In this provocative book, William Fischel argues that the historical development of school districts reflects Americans’ desire to make their communities attractive to outsiders. The result has been a standardized, interchangeable system of education not overly demanding for either students or teachers, one that involved parents and local voters in its governance and finance. Innovative in its focus on bottom-up processes generated by individual behaviors rather than top-down decisions by bureaucrats, Making the Grade provides a new perspective on education reform that emphasizes how public schools form the basis for the localized social capital in American towns and cities.
The Nftc Story: 1914-2014
There would be no American nation without foreign trade. This is the story of the National Foreign Trade Council, the oldest national trade association in the United States dedicated solely to international business issues. Founded in the Spring of 1914, just before the start of World War I, the history of the NFTC is a fascinating cavalcade of American foreign trade leadership, policy and domestic activity. Despite many challenges faced by America and the global trading system over the past century, the NFTC has remained steadfast and true to its founders' call for American businesses to work together to foster greater prosperity with their trading partners through greater trade, thereby fo...
ENIAC in Action
This work explores the conception, design, construction, use, and afterlife of ENIAC, the first general purpose digital electronic computer.
Pure Religion of the Gospel ... Together with Civil Liberty
This study uncovers how ideas on government, law, and religion led to the drafting of the religion clauses of the Northwest Ordinance. Scholars have spent little time examining the philosophical underpinnings of the statements on religion contained in the Northwest Ordinance. This study demonstrates that these statements were not mere afterthoughts, but were thick and complex statements on how the state and the church should be related.
"Punishment for the Sins of Christendom"
The anti-Mormonism of antebellum American evangelicalism suggests a different way to think about religious hostilities. The followers of Joseph Smith enraged evangelicals not because of their strangeness, but because of their similarities. The close and unacknowledged ties between the two faiths reveals something unexplored in the histories of anti-Mormonism, American evangelicalism, and religious intolerance. These similarities show that evangelical anti-Mormonism had a nuanced, contingent, and intimate history. While that close association produced animus, it resulted in unforeseen consequences for American evangelicalism. The creation of an invented Mormonism caused evangelicals to question the direction of their own movement, and they used anti-Mormonism to make compromises and to settled differences within their ranks. Over issues as disparate as religious beliefs and practices, as well as socioeconomic arrangements, anti-Mormonism played a significant role in shaping antebellum evangelicalism. Recovering this early history shows the manifold and unforeseen consequences of religious prejudice.
Bob's Red Mill Cookbook
If cooking healthier meals at home is your new resolution, look no further than Bob's Red Mill's extensive collection of high-quality grains, flours, and other mouth-watering products. The Bob's Red Mill Cookbook will help introduce new whole-grain ingredients into all of your daily meals, without a huge investment in pricey, difficult-to-locate, limited products that do more to take up space than change nutrition habits. Whole-wheat flours, brown rice, whole beans, and legumes have become prevalent in supermarkets everywhere, but among the hundreds of products milled at the Bob's Red Mill plant are also blue corn flour, quinoa, amaranth, teff, and all varieties of nuts and seeds, and they c...
Religion and Politics in America [2 volumes]
There has always been an intricate relationship between religion and politics. This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelation of religion and politics from colonial days to the present. Can a judge display the Ten Commandments outside of the courthouse? Can a town set up a nativity scene on the village green during Christmas? Should U.S. currency bear the "In God We Trust" motto? Should public school students be allowed to form bible study groups? Controversies about the separation of church and state, the proper use of religious imagery in public space, and the role of religious beliefs in public education are constantly debated. This work offers insights into cont...
