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The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives
according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated.
Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the
turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian Church Synaxarion
represented the logical culmination of a long and steady
development of what is today called the cult of the saints. This
volume, the first Armenian-English edition, is the fifth of a
twelve-volume series - one for each month of the year - and is
ideal for personal devotional use or as a valuable resource for
anyone interested in saints.
Jewel lives in a village called Ixopo. It rains a lot and the
valley is very green. At night she like to watch the stars appear.
The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white
employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous
religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in
the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored balance to
a moral cosmos upended by a heinous crime. A religious intensity in
the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of
social crisis could justify illegal white violence - even to the
extreme act of lynching. In At the Altar of Lynching, distinguished
historian Donald G. Mathews offers a new interpretation of the
murder of Sam Hose, which places the religious culture of the
evangelical South at its center. He carefully considers how
mainline Protestants, including women, not only in many instances
came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious
meaning and justification.
Vuyani is always getting into trouble because he leaves everything
ntil the last minute. But when it comes to saving his school from
danger he manages to be just on time. This is a fun story with
beautiful illustrations.
The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white
employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous
religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in
the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored balance to
a moral cosmos upended by a heinous crime. A religious intensity in
the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of
social crisis could justify illegal white violence - even to the
extreme act of lynching. In At the Altar of Lynching, distinguished
historian Donald G. Mathews offers a new interpretation of the
murder of Sam Hose, which places the religious culture of the
evangelical South at its center. He carefully considers how
mainline Protestants, including women, not only in many instances
came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious
meaning and justification.
Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA is the most profound and sensitive discussion to date of the way in which women responded to feminism. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Mathews and De Hart explore the fate of the ERA in North Carolina--one of the three states targeted by both sides as essential to ratification--to reveal the dynamics that stunned supporters across America. The authors insightfully link public discourse and private feelings, placing arguments used throughout the nation in the personal contexts of women who pleaded their cases for and against equality. Beginning with a study of woman suffrage, the book shows how issues of sex, gender, race, and power remained potent weapons on the ERA battlefield. The ideas of such vocal opponents as Phyllis Schlafly and Senator Sam Ervin set the perfect stage for mothers to confess their terror at the violation of their daughters in a post-ERA world, while the prospect of losing ratification to this terror impelled supporters to shed the white gloves of genteel lobbying for the combat boots of political in-fighting. In the end, the efforts of ERA supporters could neither outweigh the symbolic actions of its opponents nor weaken the resistance of those same legislators to further federal guarantees of equality. Ultimately, opponents succeeded in making equality for women seem dangerous. In thus explaining the ERA controversy, the authors brilliantly illuminate the many meanings of feminism for the American people.
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives
organized by the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated.
Part of the Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the
first millennium, the first Armenian Church Synaxarion represented
the culmination of a long and steady development of what is today
called the cult of the saints. This Armenian-English edition is the
first of a twelve-volume series - one for each month of the year -
and is ideal for personal devotional use or as a valuable resource
for anyone interested in saints.
The Yaysmawurk' is an Armenian liturgical collection of brief
saints' lives arranged according to the day on which they were
celebrated in the annual church calendar. The first Yaysmawurk' was
translated from an existing Greek liturgical collection, the
Synaxarion, "where the lives are all collected." In fact, it is
common knowledge that this Greek collection was the basis for
nearly all such liturgical collections of the lives of the saints
throughout the early Christian world; however, it was not a mere
translation. Rather, it constituted a logical culmination of a long
and steady development in the Armenian Church of what scholars
today like to call the "cult of the saints." This volume in the On
This Day series collects the entries for March.
The growing appeal of abolitionism and its increasing success in
converting Americans to the antislavery cause, a generation before
the Civil War, is clearly revealed in this book on the Methodist
Episcopal Church in America. The moral character of the antislavery
movement is stressed. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
The growing appeal of abolitionism and its increasing success in
converting Americans to the antislavery cause, a generation before
the Civil War, is clearly revealed in this book on the Methodist
Episcopal Church in America. The moral character of the antislavery
movement is stressed. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
A major study of American cultural history, a book distinguished
both for its careful research and for its innovative
interpretations. . . . Professor Mathews's book is an explanation
of what religion meant in the everyday lives of southern whites and
blacks. It is indispensable reading not just for those who want to
know more about the Old South but for anyone who wants to
understand the South today.--David Herbert Donald, Harvard
University
A major achievement--a magnificently provocative contribution to
the understanding of the history of religion in America.--William
G. McLoughlin, Book Reviews
A meticulous and well-documented study . . . In the changing
connotations of the word 'liberty' lie most of the dilemmas of
Southern (and American) history, dilemmas Dr. Mathews analyses with
considerable penetration.--Times Literary Supplement
The most compact and yet comprehensive view of the Old South in its
religious dimension that is presently available. This is a
pioneering work by one who is widely read in the sources and is
creative enough to synthesize and introduce fresh themes. . . . He
makes a unique contribution to southern historiography which will
act as a corrective upon earlier works. . . . Boldly stated, every
library that consults Choice should purchase this volume.--Choice
Mathews presents us with the findest and grandest history of old
southern religion that one could imagine finding in so short a book
on so large a topic. . . . Here stands in its own right a
masterpiece of regional historiography of religion in
America.--William A. Clebsch, Reviews in American History
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S.M. Ulam; Introduction by Daniel Hirsch, William G. Mathews; Contributions by Francoise Ulam, Jan Mycielski
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This autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the
great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich
with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively
anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from
1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some of the most dramatic
changes of the postwar world. He was among the first to use and
advocate computers for scientific research, originated ideas for
the nuclear propulsion of space vehicles, and made fundamental
contributions to many of today's most challenging mathematical
projects. With his wide-ranging interests, Ulam never emphasized
the importance of his contributions to the research that resulted
in the hydrogen bomb. Now Daniel Hirsch and William Mathews reveal
the true story of Ulam's pivotal role in the making of the 'Super,'
in their historical introduction to this behind-the-scenes look at
the minds and ideas that ushered in the nuclear age. It includes an
epilogue by Francoise Ulam and Jan Mycielski that sheds new light
on Ulam's character and mathematical originality.
Two homilies by Jacob of Sarug on Good Friday, one of which has
only survived in Armenian translation.
In this fourth installment of the long Homily 71, On the Six Days
of Creation, Jacob treats of the events of the fourth day, the
creation of the spheres of light over the earth: the sun to rule
over the day, and the moon and the stars to rule over the night.
In this second part of Homily 71, On the Fashioning of Creation,
Jacob treats the making of the firmament: what it was, where it
was, what - as far as can be determined - was placed above it and
what below it, its purpose and utility for humanity, and the
importance of its place in the Genesis account of the six day
progression of creation.
In this third part of Homily 71, On the Fashioning of Creation,
Jacob treats the God's separation of the waters from the earth, and
the bringing forth of vegetation on the newly-revealed dry land.
Armenian text of the Prayers attributed to Ephrem the Syrian, with
the first-ever translation into a western language. Utilizing a
highly developed poetic rhythm, the author manifests a profound
spirituality laying his own emptiness before the inexhaustible
Mercy of God.
Memra 72 is a meditation on the fall of Adam and its consequences,
subjecting all creation to corruption. God's mercy, however, will
restore everything to a spiritual, incorruptible state that will
exist eternally in the unending light of Christ.
Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily constitutes the first example of a
Hexameron, or Commentary on the Six Days of Creation, in Syriac
literature. This edition presents Jacob's comments on the first
day, Gen. 1:1-5. The volume constitutes a fascicle of The Metrical
Homilies of Mar Jacob of Sarug, which, when complete, will contain
the original Syriac text of Jacob's surviving sermons, fully
vocalized, alongside an annotated English translation.
This collection of essays examines religion in the American South
across three centuries - from the beginning of the eighteenth
century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first
collection published on the subject in fifteen years, Religion in
the American South builds upon a new generation of scholarship to
push scholarly conversation about the field to a new level of
sophistication by complicating ""southern religion""
geographically, chronologically, and thematically and by
challenging the interpretive hegemony of the ""Bible belt.""
Contributors demonstrate the importance of religion in the South
not only to American religious history but also to the history of
the nation as a whole. They show that religion touched every corner
of society - from the nightclub to the lynching tree, from the
church sanctuary to the kitchen hearth. These essays will stimulate
discussion of a wide variety of subjects, including
eighteenth-century religious history, conversion narratives,
religion and violence, the cultural power of prayer, the importance
of women in exploiting religious contexts in innovative ways, and
the interracialism of southern religious history.
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