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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “beth barton schweiger”
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  • The Gospel Working Up

    Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia

    by Beth Barton Schweiger ...
    Series series Religion in America
    The Gospel Working Up offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Schweiger examines the religious experience both before and after the Civil War, showing how Southern Protestantism became an instrument of spiritual, moral, material, and cultural ... Read more

    $137.69 USD

  • Religion in the American South

    Protestants and Others in History and Culture

    Edited by Beth Barton Schweiger, Donald G. Mathews ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Literate South

    Reading before Emancipation

    by Beth Barton Schweiger ...
    A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South’s oral traditionSchweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Recovering the Margins of American Religious History

    The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr.

    by Grant Wacker, Samuel S. Hill, Richard T. Hughes, Charles Reagan Wilson, John C. Hardin, Beth Barton Schweiger, James R. Goff Jr., Dr. B. Dwain Waldrep, Ph.D. Scott Billingsley, Ph.D.1 ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American religious studies. Raised in an upper-class family in mid-twentieth-century Jacksonville, Florida, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • God Is Not One

    The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

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    “This book could well be the most highly readable, accurate, and up-to-date introduction to the world’s major religions.” - Harvey Cox, Hollis Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard University, and author of The Future of FaithIn God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World, New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and religion scholar Stephen Prothero argues that ... Read more

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  • On Suicide Bombing

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  • 10 Early Christian Saints: Polycarp, Perpetua & Felicitas, Cyprian, Eusebius, Antony, Athanasius, Chrysostom, Jerome, Patrick, Benedict

    by Athanasius, Perpetua, Chrysostom ...
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  • Dark Green Religion

    Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future

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  • The Devils of Loudun

    by Edmund Goldsmid ...
    This is an account of the possesion of the nuns of Loudun. In 1634 the Ursuline nuns of Loudon were allegedly possessed by demons. This is one of the largest cases of mass possession in history. Father Urbain Grandier, a local priest, was interrogated under torture, convicted of being responsible for the possessions (as well as sorcery), and subsequently burned at the stake. ... Read more

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