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Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Aveni traces the sources of American culture's obsession with predicting the apocalypse. He explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop with reference to a broader historical trajectory, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past"--
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the war.
Examining a wide...
10) How to be a perfect stranger: vol. 2 :a guide to etiquette in other people's religious ceremonies
Publisher
Jewish Lights Publ
Pub. Date
c1997
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, religion journalist and author Christine Wicker establishes that faith was at the heart of everything Roosevelt wanted for the American people. This powerful book is the first in-depth look at how one of America's richest, most patrician presidents became a passionate and beloved champion of the downtrodden-and took the country with him. Those who knew Roosevelt best invariably credited his spiritual...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
From the famed broadcaster and one of the nation's most-admired public figures, this collection of blisteringly eloquent speeches delivers inspiring words that embody the best of the American spirit. Timely topics addressed include the proper place of religion in public life; the mounting environmental crisis; the struggle to keep public television and radio free of political manipulation and ideological censorship; the appalling culture of corruption...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
©1994
Description
America faces a crisis of moral authority. In this penetrating, informative book, Dr. D. James Kennedy takes readers to the core of today's cultural erosion. The United States' rich heritage of Christian liberty is now being corrupted by those who are trying to rewrite or reinterpret history. Even our traditional values are being undermined by our educational system. More than ever, we need to assert the truth--the truth of the existence of sin and...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A series of candid discussions on God, religion, and faith examines the role of religion in the modern world, in an anthology featuring the thoughts of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Derek Walcott, Jonathan Franzen, Grace Paley, and Elie Wiesel.
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