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This textbook not only provides a historical overview of Mexican
American religious traditions but also focuses on society today.
Making this a very comprehensive overview of the subject areas.
This is the first book to attempt to focus on this topic. Each
chapter includes a helpful pedagogy including a general overview,
case studies, suggestions for further reading, questions for
discussion, and a glossary. Making this the ideal textbook for
students approaching the topic for the first time. The use of case
studies and first person narratives provides a much needed 'lived
religion' approach to the subject area. Helping students to apply
their learning to the world around them.
Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in
Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the
mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist
militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class
subculture that enabled working men to resist the full
consolidation of middle-class hegemony. The book traces the growth
of working-class radicalism as it developed dialectically in
confrontation with middle-class liberal ideology in the generation
after Waterloo. Intellectual forces were of central importance in
shaping the character of the working-class Left and the
Enlightenment, in particular, as the chief source of ideological
weapons that were turned against the established order. The
Enlightenment also provided the intellectual foundations of the
middle-class ideology that was directed against the incipient
threat of popular radicalism. The book notes that the same
intellectual forces that entered into the first half of the
nineteenth century also shaped the value system that provided the
foundations of mid-Victorian urban culture. These forces also
contributed to the rapprochement between working-class liberalism,
bringing latent affinities to the surface. It is also emphasised,
however, that inherited ideas and traditions exercised their
influence in interaction with the structure of power and status.
Pentecostalism is the fasting growing form of Christianity in the
world. As such, it figures prominently in both RS and Theology
research. This book focuses on Pentecostalism in S. Africa and the
surrounding countries, like Zimbabwe. Pentecostalism is a
particularly strong trend in Africa and so it is good to have a
project that covers this area from an academic based there. The
book takes a critical look at some of the more recent Pentecostal
practices in churches in S. Africa and so will offer an insight
into the lived religion of S. African Pentecostals. The book will
have strong cross-market potential with African Studies.
In 1976, Jesus took Mary K. Baxter on a spiritual journey for thirty nights to witness the torments of hell, charging her to reveal the terrible reality of God’s judgment and to relate the urgent message of salvation through Jesus Christ. Mary wrote about her journey to hell in her best-selling book A Divine Revelation of Hell, which has sold nearly 1.4 million copies. After those thirty nights, Jesus told Mary, “I will close up your mind, and you will not remember some of the things I have shown and told you. But I will reopen your mind and bring back your understanding in the latter days.” Recently, God brought back to Mary’s remembrance many of those experiences because these revelations are particularly for our day. A Divine Revelation of Satan’s Deceptions contains new images of hell that Mary has not related in her other books, as well as crucial insights into the deceptions Satan uses to destroy people and the tactics he employs to defeat believers. Our choice is between allowing Satan to deceive and rob us—or claiming our spiritual inheritance and conquering the enemy in the power of God.
In A Divine Revelation of Spiritual Warfare, you will learn more about how to receive divine protection and use the spiritual weapons that are rightfully yours so you can take back what Satan has stolen, break free from generational curses, know what spiritual warfare is and is not, conquer entrenched sins and habits, see healings, and release others from spiritual bondage. The enemy seeks to conquer and destroy your spirit, soul, and body, but the devil has far less power than God has made available to us. Learn the enemy's strategies and be equipped to engage in spiritual battles—and win!
Christianity and the Alt-Right: Exploring the Relationship looks
back at the 2016 presidential election and the support President
Trump enjoyed among white Evangelicals. This cutting-edge volume
offers insights into the role of race and racism in shaping both
the Trump candidacy and presidency and the ways in which
xenophobia, racism, and religion intersect within the Alt-Right and
Evangelical cultures in the age of Trump. This book aims to examine
the specific role that Christianity plays within the Alt-Right
itself. Of special concern is the development of what is called
"pro-white Christianity" and an ethic of religious tolerance
between members of the Alt-Right who are Pagan or atheist and those
who are Christian, whilst also exploring the reaction from
Christian communities to the phenomenon of the Alt-Right. Looking
at the larger relationship between American Christians, especially
white Evangelicals, and the Alt-Right as well as the current
American political context, the place of Christianity within the
Alt-Right itself, and responses from Christian communities to the
Alt-Right, this is a must-read for those interested in religion in
America, religion and politics, evangelicalism, and religion and
race.
Exploring the response of evangelicals to the collapse of 'Greater
Christian Britain' in Australia in the long 1960s, this book
provides a new religious perspective to the end of empire and a
fresh national perspective to the end of Christendom. In the
turbulent 1960s, two foundations of the Western world rapidly and
unexpectedly collapsed. 'Christendom', marked by the dominance of
discursive Christianity in public culture, and 'Greater Britain',
the powerful sentimental and strategic union of Britain and its
settler societies, disappeared from the collective mental map with
startling speed. To illuminate these contemporaneous global shifts,
this book takes as a case study the response of Australian
evangelical Christian leaders to the cultural and religious crises
encountered between 1959 and 1979. Far from being a narrow national
study, this book places its case studies in the context of the
latest North American and European scholarship on secularisation,
imperialism and evangelicalism. Drawing on a wide range of archival
sources, it examines critical figures such as Billy Graham, Fred
Nile and Hans Mol, as well as issues of empire, counter-cultural
movements and racial and national identity. This study will be of
particular interest to any scholar of Evangelicalism in the
twentieth century. It will also be a useful resource for academics
looking into the wider impacts of the decline of Christianity and
the British Empire in Western civilisation.
Every year an estimated 600,000 U.S. Latinos convert from
Catholicism to Protestantism. Today, 12.5 million Latinos
self-identify as Protestant--a population larger than all U.S. Jews
and Muslims combined. Spearheading this spiritual transformation is
the Pentecostal movement and Assemblies of God, which is the
destination for one out of four converts. In a deeply researched
social and cultural history, Gaston Espinosa uncovers the roots of
this remarkable turn and the Latino AG's growing leadership
nationwide. Latino Pentecostals in America traces the Latino AG
back to the Azusa Street Revivals in Los Angeles and Apostolic
Faith Revivals in Houston from 1906 to 1909. Espinosa describes the
uphill struggles for indigenous leadership, racial equality, women
in the ministry, social and political activism, and immigration
reform. His analysis of their independent political views and
voting patterns from 1996 to 2012 challenges the stereotypes that
they are all apolitical, right-wing, or politically marginal. Their
outspoken commitment to an active faith has led a new generation of
leaders to blend righteousness and justice, by which they mean the
reconciling message of Billy Graham and the social transformation
of Martin Luther King Jr. Latino AG leaders and their 2,400
churches across the nation represent a new and growing force in
denominational, Evangelical, and presidential politics. This
eye-opening study explains why this group of working-class Latinos
once called "the Silent Pentecostals" is silent no more. By giving
voice to their untold story, Espinosa enriches our understanding of
the diversity of Latino religion, Evangelicalism, and American
culture.
Christianity and the Alt-Right: Exploring the Relationship looks
back at the 2016 presidential election and the support President
Trump enjoyed among white Evangelicals. This cutting-edge volume
offers insights into the role of race and racism in shaping both
the Trump candidacy and presidency and the ways in which
xenophobia, racism, and religion intersect within the Alt-Right and
Evangelical cultures in the age of Trump. This book aims to examine
the specific role that Christianity plays within the Alt-Right
itself. Of special concern is the development of what is called
"pro-white Christianity" and an ethic of religious tolerance
between members of the Alt-Right who are Pagan or atheist and those
who are Christian, whilst also exploring the reaction from
Christian communities to the phenomenon of the Alt-Right. Looking
at the larger relationship between American Christians, especially
white Evangelicals, and the Alt-Right as well as the current
American political context, the place of Christianity within the
Alt-Right itself, and responses from Christian communities to the
Alt-Right, this is a must-read for those interested in religion in
America, religion and politics, evangelicalism, and religion and
race.
This book critically examines contemporary Pentecostalism in South
Africa and its influence on some of the countries that surround it.
Pentecostalism plays a significant role in the religious life of
this region and so evaluating its impact is key to understanding
how religion functions in Twenty-First Century Africa. Beginning
with an overview of the roots of Pentecostalism in Southern Africa,
the book moves on to identify a current "fourth" wave of this form
of Christianity. It sets out the factors that have given rise to
this movement and then offers the first academic evaluation of its
theology and practice. Positive aspects as well as extreme or
negative practices are all identified in order to give a balanced
and nuanced assessment of this religious group and allow the reader
to gain valuable insight into how it interacts with wider African
society. This book is cutting-edge look at an emerging form of one
of the fastest-growing religions in the world. It will, therefore,
be of great use to scholars working in Pentecostalism, Theology,
Religious Studies and African Religion as well as African Studies
more generally.
While many established forms of Christianity have seen significant
decline in recent decades, Pentecostals are currently one of the
fastest growing religious groups across the world. This book
examines the roots, inception, and expansion of Pentecostalism
among Italian Americans to demonstrate how Pentecostalism moves so
freely through widely varying cultures. The book begins with a
survey of the origins and early shaping forces of Italian American
Pentecostalism. It charts its birth among immigrants in Chicago as
well as the initial expansion fuelled by the convergence of
folk-Catholic, Reformed evangelical, and Holiness sources. The book
goes on to explain how internal and external pressures demanded
structure, leading to the founding of the Christian Church of North
America in 1927. Paralleling this development was the emergence of
the Italian District of the Assemblies of God, the Assemblee di Dio
in Italia (Assemblies of God in Italy), the Canadian Assemblies of
God, and formidable denominations in Brazil and Argentina. In the
closing chapters, based on analysis of key theological loci and in
lieu of contemporary developments, the future prospects of the
movement are laid out and assessed. This book provides a purview
into the religious lives of an underexamined, but culturally
significant group in America. As such, it will be of great interest
to scholars of Pentecostalism, Religious Studies and Religious
History, as well as Migrations Studies and Cultural Studies in
America
When approaching the most public disagreement over predestination
in the eighteenth century, the 'Free Grace' controversy between
John Wesley and George Whitefield, the tendency can be to simply
review the event as a row over the same old issues. This assumption
pervades much of the scholarly literature that deals with early
Methodism. Moreover, much of that same literature addresses the
dispute from John Wesley's vantage point, often harbouring a bias
towards his Evangelical Arminianism. Yet the question must be
asked: was there more to the 'Free Grace' controversy than a simple
rehashing of old arguments? This book answers this complex question
by setting out the definitive account of the 'Free Grace'
controversy in first decade of the Evangelical Revival (1739-49).
Centred around the key players in the fracas, John Wesley and
George Whitefield, it is a close analysis of the way in which the
doctrine of predestination was instrumental in differentiating the
early Methodist societies from one another. It recounts the
controversy through the lens of doctrinal analysis and from two
distinct perspectives: the propositional content of a given
doctrine and how that doctrine exerts formative pressure upon the
assenting individual(s). What emerges from this study is a clearer
picture of the formative years of early Methodism and the vital
role that doctrinal pronouncement played in giving a shape to early
Methodist identity. It will, therefore, be of great interest to
scholars of Methodism, Evangelicalism, Theology and Church History.
It has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge
rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church
of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian
orthodoxy. Christopher Corbin clarifies Coleridge's religious
identity and argues that while Coleridge's Christian orthodoxy may
have been sui generis, it was closely aligned with moderate
Anglican Evangelicalism. Approaching religious identity as a kind
of culture that includes distinct forms of language and networks of
affiliation in addition to beliefs and practices, this book looks
for the distinguishable movements present in Coleridge's Britain to
more precisely locate his religious identity than can be done by
appeals to traditional denominational divisions. Coleridge's search
for unity led him to desire and synthesize the "warmth" of heart
religion (symbolized as Methodism) with the "light" of rationalism
(symbolized as Socinianism), and the evangelicalism in the Church
of England, being the most chastened of the movement, offered a
fitting place from which this union of warmth and light could
emerge. His religious identity not only included many of the
defining Anglican Evangelical beliefs, such as an emphasis on
original sin and the New Birth, but he also shared common polemical
opponents, appropriated evangelical literary genres, developed a
spirituality centered on the common evangelical emphases of prayer
and introspection, and joined Evangelicals in rejecting baptismal
regeneration. When placed in a chronological context, Coleridge's
form of Christian orthodoxy developed in conversation with Anglican
Evangelicals; moreover, this relationship with Anglican
Evangelicalism likely helped facilitate his return to the Church of
England. Corbin not only demonstrates the similarities between
Coleridge's relationship to a form of evangelicalism with which
most people have little familiarity, but also offers greater
insight into the complexities and tensions of religious identity in
late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain as a whole.
This volume makes a significant contribution to the 'history of
ecclesiastical histories', with a fresh analysis of historians of
evangelicalism from the eighteenth century to the present. It
explores the ways in which their scholarly methods and theological
agendas shaped their writings. Each chapter presents a case study
in evangelical historiography. Some of the historians and
biographers examined here were ministers and missionaries, while
others were university scholars. They are drawn from Anglican,
Baptist, Congregationalist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Fundamentalist
and Pentecostal denominations. Their histories cover not only
transatlantic evangelicalism, but also the spread of the movement
across China, Africa, and indeed the whole globe. Some wrote for a
popular Christian readership, emphasising edification and
evangelical hagiography; others have produced weighty monographs
for the academy. These case studies shed light on the way the
discipline has developed, and also the heated controversies over
whether one approach to evangelical history is more legitimate than
the rest. As a result, this book will be of considerable interest
to historians of religion.
Dynamic New Teaching from Bestselling Author Ed Silvoso It's no
secret that the church today has lost its influence in culture. But
why? With the technology, affluence, and knowledge we have today,
why are we less effective than the first-century church--which
didn't have social media, fancy buildings, professional pastors, or
even religious freedom? What are we missing? In these vital,
eye-opening pages, bestselling author Ed Silvoso digs into
Scripture, unearthing Jesus' true design for his church--his
Ekklesia. He shows how the early church was a radical,
countercultural force of people who transformed the hostile, pagan
places in which they lived. Here Dr. Silvoso shows how we, in the
midst of social, economic, political, and moral chaos, can once
again become the revolutionary, transformational, life-giving
Ekklesia Jesus called us to be.
Apostolic networks link congregations together through personal
relationships. They center around apostolic figures who have the
ability to mobilize resources, make rapid decisions, and utilize
charismatic gifts. Networks of churches organized in this way can
respond to postmodernity and cultural innovation. This book takes
the story of the emergence of apostolic networks in Britain from
the visionary work of Arthur Wallis through the charismatic renewal
into the full-fledged Restoration Movement of the 1980s. It covers
the events of the 1990s, including the Toronto Blessing, and
contains fresh information based upon interviews with leading
players and new survey data as well as reanalysis of historical
documents.
Focusing on the interaction between teachers and scholars, this
book provides an intimate account of "ragged schools" that
challenges existing scholarship on evangelical child-saving
movements and Victorian philanthropy. With Lord Shaftesbury as
their figurehead, these institutions provided a free education to
impoverished children. The primary purpose of the schools, however,
was the salvation of children's souls. Using promotional literature
and local school documents, this book contrasts the public
portrayal of children and teachers with that found in practice. It
draws upon evidence from schools in Scotland and England, giving
insight into the achievements and challenges of individual
institutions. An intimate account is constructed using the journals
maintained by Martin Ware, the superintendent of a North London
school, alongside a cache of letters that children sent him. This
combination of personal and national perspectives adds nuance to
the narratives often imposed upon historic philanthropic movements.
Investigating how children responded to the evangelistic messages
and educational opportunities ragged schools offered, this book
will be of keen interest to historians of education, emigration,
religion, as well as of the nineteenth century more broadly.
Is Heaven on Earth Really Possible?
When we struggle with defeat and discouragement, the Holy Spirit is the key to victory and peace. Best-selling author Dr. Myles Munroe shows how to bring order to the chaos in your life, receive God’s power to heal and deliver, fulfill your true purpose with joy, be a leader in your sphere of influence, and be part of God’s government on earth. We have access to the unseen world of the Spirit and can bring heavenly influence to earth. When you receive God’s Spirit into your life, you will find that His gifts are your birthright. Receive the fullness of God’s Spirit and start living in the spiritual power that God has promised you. “It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you” (John 16:7 NKJV).
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