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God's Own Party
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Daniel K. Williams |
When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked. But, God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes back much… |
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Blessed
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Kate Bowler |
How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and… |
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God's forever family
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Larry Eskridge |
The Jesus People movement was a unique combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical Christianity. It first appeared in the famed "Summer of Love" of 1967, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbur… |
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Prepare
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J. Paul Nyquist |
Much like a person waking from a decades-long coma only to meet a radically different world, evangelicals are just awakening to the reality that they have lost the culture war in this country. We are… |
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Mississippi Praying
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Carolyn Renée Dupont |
Mississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era shows how Missis… |
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Doctrine and Race
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Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews |
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism, Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars demonstrates that … |
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Getting religion
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Kenneth L. Woodward |
"Blends memoir (especially of the postwar era) with ... reporting and ... historical analysis to tell the story of how American religion, culture, and politics influenced each other in the second hal… |
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The age of evangelicalism
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Steven P. Miller |
At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so po… |
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A guide to the themes from Prepare
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J. Paul Nyquist |
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For the Love of God
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Lucy Kaylin |
In this provocative work, Lucy Kaylin explores myths and debunks stereotypes to present a rich and varied portrait of modern nuns at a dramatic moment in their history: Nuns in the United States are … |
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Why the Christian Right Is Wrong
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Robin Meyers,Robin R. Meyers |
"I join the ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus but whose actions are anything but Christian."… |
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Contending for the Faith
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Daniel R. Carnett |
"The Baptists worked hard to provide social and religious services throughout New Mexico in an effort to increase their membership. By the 1960s they managed to create a religious climate where nearl… |
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