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Pages : 208

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Author: Clemencia R. DeLeon
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1176

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Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 1120

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Pages : 1006

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Author: Michigan. Supreme Court
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Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Author: Michigan. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 822

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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Author: Robert K. Johnston
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 0801027853
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Reveals how both contemporary movies and the Book of Ecclesiastes portray life's beauty despite its pain and futility.

Author: Lisa Nichols Hickman
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664227593
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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In this unique and engaging book of meditations, pastor Lisa Nichols Hickman delves into the life of worship, seeking to reveal its rhythms and order. There are twenty chapters, each a meditation on an element of worship, reflecting on how that particular element plays out not only in a service of worship but, more importantly, in everyday life.

Author: Robert P. Swierenga
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802813114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 940

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Now at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years "below the radar screens" of historians and the general public. Here their story is told for the first time. In Dutch Chicago Robert Swierenga offers a colorful, comprehensive history of the Dutch Americans who have made their home in the Windy City since the mid-1800s. The original Chicago Dutch were a polyglot lot from all social strata, regions, and religions of the Netherlands. Three-quarters were Calvinists; the rest included Catholics, Lutherans, Unitarians, Socialists, Jews, and the nominally churched. Whereas these latter Dutch groups assimilated into the American culture around them, the Dutch Reformed settled into a few distinct enclaves -- the Old West Side, Englewood, and Roseland and South Holland -- where they stuck together, building an institutional infrastructure of churches, schools, societies, and shops that enabled them to live from cradle to grave within their own communities. Focusing largely but not exclusively on the Reformed group of Dutch folks in Chicago, Swierenga recounts how their strong entrepreneurial spirit and isolationist streak played out over time. Mostly of rural origins in the northern Netherlands, these Hollanders in Chicago liked to work with horses and go into business for themselves. Picking up ashes and garbage, jobs that Americans despised, spelled opportunity for the Dutch, and they came to monopolize the garbage industry. Their independence in business reflected the privacy they craved in their religious and educational life. Church services held in the Dutch language kept outsiders at bay, as did a comprehensive system of private elementary and secondary schools intended to inculcate youngsters with the Dutch Reformed theological and cultural heritage. Not until the world wars did the forces of Americanization finally break down the walls, and the Dutch passed into the mainstream. Only in their churches today, now entirely English speaking, does the Dutch cultural memory still linger. Dutch Chicago is the first serious work on its subject, and it promises to be the definitive history. Swierenga's lively narrative, replete with historical detail and anecdotes, is accompanied by more than 250 photographs and illustrations. Valuable appendixes list Dutch-owned garbage and cartage companies in greater Chicago since 1880 as well as Reformed churches and schools. This book will be enjoyed by readers with Dutch roots as well as by anyone interested in America's rich ethnic diversity.