Books

12 results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
God's Own Party God's Own Party 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… OL16099541W
Blessed Blessed 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… OL16805671W
God's forever family God's forever family 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… OL16814950W
Prepare Prepare 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… OL17187232W
Mississippi Praying Mississippi Praying 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… OL17640812W
Doctrine and Race Doctrine and Race 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 … OL17782129W
Getting religion Getting religion 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… OL20043497W
The age of evangelicalism The age of evangelicalism 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… OL20957541W
A guide to the themes from Prepare A guide to the themes from Prepare J. Paul Nyquist pages cm OL22322573W
For the Love of God For the Love of God 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 … OL277261W
Why the Christian Right Is Wrong Why the Christian Right Is Wrong 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."… OL8052681W
Contending for the Faith Contending for the Faith 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… OL8584316W