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Mennonites in Dialogue
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Fernando Enns, Jonathan Seiling; Foreword by Cesar Garcia
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A collection of 230 hymns, with music, drawn from a wide range of
liberal religious sources, all written in the 20th or 21st century;
many were composed by Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist writers,
often drawing their imagery from other faith traditions. The
collection includes songs for blessing partnerships and
relationships. The compilers have drawn on a wide range of musical
styles, using keys in keeping with current group vocal range.
This book carries an ethnographic signature in approach and style,
and is an examination of a small Brooklyn, New York,
African-American, Pentecostal church congregation and is based on
ethnographic notes taken over the course of four years. The
Pentecostal Church is known to outsiders almost exclusively for its
members' "bizarre" habit of speaking in tongues. This ethnography,
however, puts those outsiders inside the church pews, as it paints
a portrait of piety, compassion, caring, love-all embraced through
an embodiment perspective, as the church's members experience these
forces in the most personal ways through religious conversion.
Central themes include concerns with the notion of "spectacle"
because of the grand bodily display that is highlighted by
spiritual struggle, social aspiration, punishment and spontaneous
explosions of a variety of emotions in the public sphere. The
approach to sociology throughout this work incorporates the
striking dialectic of history and biography to penetrate and
interact with religiously inspired residents of the inner-city in a
quest to make sense both empirically and theoretically of this
rapidly changing, surprising and highly contradictory late-modern
church scene. The focus on the individual process of becoming
Pentecostal provides a road map into the church and canvasses an
intimate view into the lives of its members, capturing their
stories as they proceed in their Pentecostal careers. This book
challenges important sociological concepts like crisis to explain
religious seekership and conversion, while developing new concepts
such as "God Hunting" and "Holy Ghost Capital" to explain the
process through which individuals become tongue-speaking
Pentecostals. Church members acquire "Holy Ghost Capital" and
construct a Pentecostal identity through a relationship narrative
to establish personal status and power through conflicting
tongue-speaking ideas. Finally, this book examines the futures of
the small and large, institutionally affiliated Pentecostal Church
and argues that the small Pentecostal Church is better able to
resist modern rationalizing forces, retaining the charisma that
sparked the initial religious movement. The power of charisma in
the small church has far-reaching consequences and implications for
the future of Pentecostalism and its followers.
Mormonism: A Guide for the Perplexed explains central facets of the
Mormon faith and way of life for those wishing to gain a clearer
understanding of this rapidly growing world religion. As The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to grow in the
United States and especially in other countries (with a total
membership of over 15 million, more than 50% of which is outside
the US), and as theologians and church leaders wrestle with whether
Mormonism is in fact a valid expression of modern Christianity,
this distinctive religious tradition has become increasingly an
object of interest and inquiry. This book is the ideal companion to
the study of this perplexing and often misunderstood religion.
Covering historical aspects, this guide takes a careful look at the
whole of Mormonism, its tenets and practices, as well as providing
an insight into a Mormon life.
Using as their starting point a 1976 Newsweek cover story on the
emerging politicization of evangelical Christians, contributors to
this collection engage the scholarly literature on evangelicalism
from a variety of angles to offer new answers to persisting
questions about the movement. The standard historical narrative
describes the period between the 1925 Scopes Trial and the early
1970s as a silent one for evangelicals, and when they did re-engage
in the political arena, it was over abortion. Randall J. Stephens
and Randall Balmer challenge that narrative. Stephens moves the
starting point earlier in the twentieth century, and Balmer
concludes that race, not abortion, initially motivated activists.
In his examination of the relationship between African Americans
and evangelicalism, Dan Wells uses the Newsweek story's sidebar on
black activist and born-again Christian Eldridge Cleaver to
illuminate the former Black Panther's uneasy association with white
evangelicals. Daniel K. Williams, Allison Vander Broek, and J.
Brooks Flippen explore the tie between evangelicals and the
anti-abortion movement as well as the political ramifications of
their anti-abortion stance. The election of 1976 helped to
politicize abortion, which both encouraged a realignment of
alliances and altered evangelicals' expectations for candidates,
developments that continue into the twenty-first century. Also in
1976, Foy Valentine, leader of the Southern Baptist Christian Life
Commission, endeavored to distinguish the South's brand of
Protestant Christianity from the evangelicalism described by
Newsweek. Nevertheless, Southern Baptists quickly became associated
with the evangelicalism of the Religious Right and the South's
shift to the Republican Party. Jeff Frederick discusses
evangelicals' politicization from the 1970s into the twenty-first
century, suggesting that southern religiosity has suffered as
southern evangelicals surrendered their authenticity and adopted a
moral relativism that they criticized in others. R. Ward Holder and
Hannah Dick examine political evangelicalism in the wake of Donald
Trump's election. Holder lays bare the compromises that many
Southern Baptists had to make to justify their support for Trump,
who did not share their religious or moral values. Hannah Dick
focuses on media coverage of Trump's 2016 campaign and contends
that major news outlets misunderstood the relationship between
Trump and evangelicals, and between evangelicals and politics in
general. The result, she suggests, was that the media severely
miscalculated Trump's chances of winning the election.
Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750-1960) is the first
comprehensive study on the relationship between science and
religion in a Spanish-speaking country with a Catholic majority and
a "Latin" pattern of secularisation. The text takes the reader from
Jesuit missionary science in colonial times, through the
conflict-ridden 19th century, to the Catholic revival of the 1930s
in Argentina. The diverse interactions between science and religion
revealed in this analysis can be organised in terms of their
dynamic of secularisation. The indissoluble identification of
science and the secular, which operated at rhetorical and
institutional levels among the liberal elite and the socialists in
the 19th century, lost part of its force with the emergence of
Catholic scientists in the course of the 20th century. In agreement
with current views that deny science the role as the driving force
of secularisation, this historical study concludes that it was the
process of secularisation that shaped the interplay between
religion and science, not the other way around.
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