Author: Deborah Justice
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438489633
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
What if simply changing musical styles could resurrect social power and religious vitality? By the early 1990s, Christianity was losing ground nationally, and mainline Protestants were trending even Whiter and older than America's overall demographic trajectory. The churches knew they needed to diversify. Yet, many mainline churches focused their energies on the so-called Worship Wars, intense aesthetic and theological controversies running through much of White Christian America. Historically, churches had only supported one musical style; now, many mainline Protestant congregations were willing to risk internal schism to support both Contemporary worship—centered around guitars, praise bands, and choruses—and Traditional worship with its pipe organs, chancel choirs, and hymns. Surely, they thought, musical diversity would broadcast tolerance and bring in new members—perhaps it would even help them regain their historically central role in American society. Based on years of ethnographic research, (White)Washing Our Sins Away explores how American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.
(White)Washing Our Sins Away
Author: Deborah Justice
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438489633
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
What if simply changing musical styles could resurrect social power and religious vitality? By the early 1990s, Christianity was losing ground nationally, and mainline Protestants were trending even Whiter and older than America's overall demographic trajectory. The churches knew they needed to diversify. Yet, many mainline churches focused their energies on the so-called Worship Wars, intense aesthetic and theological controversies running through much of White Christian America. Historically, churches had only supported one musical style; now, many mainline Protestant congregations were willing to risk internal schism to support both Contemporary worship—centered around guitars, praise bands, and choruses—and Traditional worship with its pipe organs, chancel choirs, and hymns. Surely, they thought, musical diversity would broadcast tolerance and bring in new members—perhaps it would even help them regain their historically central role in American society. Based on years of ethnographic research, (White)Washing Our Sins Away explores how American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438489633
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
What if simply changing musical styles could resurrect social power and religious vitality? By the early 1990s, Christianity was losing ground nationally, and mainline Protestants were trending even Whiter and older than America's overall demographic trajectory. The churches knew they needed to diversify. Yet, many mainline churches focused their energies on the so-called Worship Wars, intense aesthetic and theological controversies running through much of White Christian America. Historically, churches had only supported one musical style; now, many mainline Protestant congregations were willing to risk internal schism to support both Contemporary worship—centered around guitars, praise bands, and choruses—and Traditional worship with its pipe organs, chancel choirs, and hymns. Surely, they thought, musical diversity would broadcast tolerance and bring in new members—perhaps it would even help them regain their historically central role in American society. Based on years of ethnographic research, (White)Washing Our Sins Away explores how American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.
Wild Butterflies
Author: Esther Mohammed
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499022964
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A smell, a taste, a sound has evoked that fluttery feelings in your stomach. There it is, real, but incomprehensible. Feelings that lay down deep and undigested. That tingling safe smell of warm tenderness rages to get out, or chooses to be undisturbed. Don't be encumbered, be aware. Wisdom is projection into your tummy butterflies, peering into the details you can be aware off. Be conscious of your feelings and it is a stepping stone of understanding the morbidly tense or untainted swelling emotion that flutter like the wings of the Butterfly. Taste the nectar it can be bitter or sweet.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499022964
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A smell, a taste, a sound has evoked that fluttery feelings in your stomach. There it is, real, but incomprehensible. Feelings that lay down deep and undigested. That tingling safe smell of warm tenderness rages to get out, or chooses to be undisturbed. Don't be encumbered, be aware. Wisdom is projection into your tummy butterflies, peering into the details you can be aware off. Be conscious of your feelings and it is a stepping stone of understanding the morbidly tense or untainted swelling emotion that flutter like the wings of the Butterfly. Taste the nectar it can be bitter or sweet.
Daily Good
Author: Tania Goody
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468950142
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468950142
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Fabulous and Focused
Author: Michelle Medlock Adams
Publisher: Worthy Inspired
ISBN: 1683972317
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Addressing the issues that business women encounter every day, including communications, relationships, opportunities, integrity, professionalism, and achievement, this devotional is a helpful companion and an inspiring start to every day. Written with humor and insight, the authors share hard learned lessons and provide guidance for the many challenges and opportunities that women face in their career.
Publisher: Worthy Inspired
ISBN: 1683972317
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Addressing the issues that business women encounter every day, including communications, relationships, opportunities, integrity, professionalism, and achievement, this devotional is a helpful companion and an inspiring start to every day. Written with humor and insight, the authors share hard learned lessons and provide guidance for the many challenges and opportunities that women face in their career.
Leaves of Healing
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Category : Spiritual healing
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Spiritual healing
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Judaism for Everyone
Author: Shmuley Boteach
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510779922
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
With the publication of his runaway bestseller Kosher Sex, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach gained instant fame as a sage and savvy commentator on public and private life. Now he turns his outspoken energy and vast erudition to the core teachings of Judaism itself. During his years as Rabbi of Oxford University and founder of the university's Jewish outreach organization, the L'Chaim Society, Boteach began to realize how well-matched the foundational beliefs of Judaism are to the broad human needs of the modern world. Unlike the dualist credo of other religions—in which the material and spiritual are always in conflict—the Jewish faith uniquely represents a spiritual philosophy concerned about life in this world, rather than in the hereafter. In Judaism for Everyone, this most unorthodox of orthodox rabbis explores the Jewish and Biblical origins of civilization's seminal moral ideas and presents Judaism as a program of action for people of all faiths. Boteach's interpretations and commentary are a vibrant celebration of the dynamism that is Judaism. Whether he's peppering his points with stories from his childhood, promoting feminism, decrying boredom, or extolling the virtues of leisure and solitude, Shmuley Boteach never fails to inform, inspire, and surprise. Judaism for Everyone is for anyone who seeks a universal moral creed to maximize human goodness and inner potential.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510779922
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
With the publication of his runaway bestseller Kosher Sex, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach gained instant fame as a sage and savvy commentator on public and private life. Now he turns his outspoken energy and vast erudition to the core teachings of Judaism itself. During his years as Rabbi of Oxford University and founder of the university's Jewish outreach organization, the L'Chaim Society, Boteach began to realize how well-matched the foundational beliefs of Judaism are to the broad human needs of the modern world. Unlike the dualist credo of other religions—in which the material and spiritual are always in conflict—the Jewish faith uniquely represents a spiritual philosophy concerned about life in this world, rather than in the hereafter. In Judaism for Everyone, this most unorthodox of orthodox rabbis explores the Jewish and Biblical origins of civilization's seminal moral ideas and presents Judaism as a program of action for people of all faiths. Boteach's interpretations and commentary are a vibrant celebration of the dynamism that is Judaism. Whether he's peppering his points with stories from his childhood, promoting feminism, decrying boredom, or extolling the virtues of leisure and solitude, Shmuley Boteach never fails to inform, inspire, and surprise. Judaism for Everyone is for anyone who seeks a universal moral creed to maximize human goodness and inner potential.
The Epworth Herald
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Tarbell's Teachers' Guide to the International Sunday-school Lessons for 1906
Author: Martha Tarbell
Publisher:
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Category : International Sunday school lessons
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
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Category : International Sunday school lessons
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Tarbell's Teachers' Guide to the International Sunday-school Lessons for 1910
Author: Martha Tarbell
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Revell Tarbell's Teacher's Guide to the International Sunday School Lessons, Includes the RSV and KJV.
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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