Search Results - "secularism"

Responding to secularization the deaconess movement in nineteenth-century Sweden / by Green, Todd H.

Table of Contents: “…The secularization debate : an introduction to the problematic relationship between religion and modernity --…”
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Religion and the secular in Eastern Germany, 1945 to the present

Subjects: “…Secularization Germany (East) Congresses.…”
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Faith as an option : possible futures for Christianity / by Joas, Hans, 1948-

Subjects: “…Secularism.…”
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The anointed evangelical truth in a secular age / by Stephens, Randall J., 1973-

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The early Reformation in Germany between secular impact and radical vision / by Scott, Tom, 1947-

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Saving faith : making religious pluralism an American value at the dawn of the secular age / by Mislin, David

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Rome's most faithful daughter the Catholic Church and independent Poland, 1914-1939 / by Pease, Neal

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Religious pluralism, democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America

Table of Contents: “…Cultural change in Mexico at the turn of the century : the secularization of women's identity and the erosion of the authority of the Catholic Church /…”
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Christian Masculinity : Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries /

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James Ussher and John Bramhall the theology and politics of two Irish ecclesiastics of the seventeenth century / by Cunningham, Jack, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…James Ussher -- John Bramhall -- Dogmatic theologies -- Sacramental theologies -- Ecclesiastical histories -- Secular politics -- Ecclesiastical politics -- Practical policy.…”
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After God by Taylor, Mark C., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Theorizing religion -- The Protestant revolution -- Subjectivity and modernity -- Religious secularity -- Eclipse of the real -- Recovering the real -- Religion without God -- Ethics without absolutes.…”
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Plympton Priory a house of Augustinian Canons in south-western England in the late Middle Ages / by Fizzard, Allison D.

Table of Contents: “…The founding of Plympton Priory : background and context -- Episcopal support for the new foundation : donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and their circle -- Building the endowment : lay benefactors, their motives, and their gifts -- Managing the inheritance : gains, losses, and challenges in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries -- Maximizing the inheritance : Plympton Priory and its churches and chapels -- Plympton Priory and the laity : challenges to the authority of the priory -- The regular and the secular : Plympton Priory and its connections to the secular clergy -- The canons of Plympton Priory -- The patronage case : the crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory -- Dissolution.…”
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Atheist delusions the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies / by Hart, David Bentley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith, reason, and freedom : a view from the present -- The gospel of unbelief -- The age of freedom -- The mythology of the secular age : modernity's rewriting of the Christian past -- Faith and reason -- The night of reason -- The destruction of the past -- The death and rebirth of science -- Intolerance and persecution -- Intolerance and war -- An age of darkness -- Revolution : the Christian invention of the human -- The great rebellion -- A glorious sadness -- A liberating message -- The face of the faceless -- The death and birth of worlds -- Divine humanity -- Reaction and retreat : modernity and the eclipse of the human -- Secularism and its victims -- Sorcerers and saints.…”
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The rise of Mormonism by Stark, Rodney

Table of Contents: “…Extracting social scientific models from Mormon history -- Joseph Smith among the revelators -- Mormon networks of faith -- Rationality and Mormon sacrifice -- Modernization, secularization, and Mormon growth -- The basis of Mormon success -- The rise of a New World faith.…”
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The sleep of Behemoth disputing peace and violence in medieval Europe, 1000-1200 / by Malegam, Jehangir Yezdi, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Millennial reform and revisions of peace -- The papal reform : peace espoused and repudiated -- False sacraments : violence, captivity and insurrection -- Dueling sacraments : the communion of Judas Iscariot -- Mediations between self and society : peace, discretion and discipline -- Peacemaking, ecclesiology and evangelism -- Communes : inversions of peace -- Disciplining Behemoth : provisions for secular peace.…”
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Sacred mission, worldly ambition Black Christian nationalism in the age of Jim Crow / by Oltman, Adele, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Mapping Black Savannah : nation and religion -- Holding the line for the Word : Black evangelicals below the Mason-Dixon -- "Even if He is a woman" : Savannah's talented tenth and Black suffrage -- "Have hardly had straw" : Black Christian nation building and White Christian philanthropy -- "Peace and harmony of the church" : the secularization of Black Savannah -- Epilogue: From Black Christian nationalism to civil rights.…”
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The politics of religion in Soviet-occupied Germany the case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949 / by Brennan, Sean (Sean Philip), 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The brown dictatorship before the red: the German churches under national socialism -- The question of the CDU and the churches during the period of the "antifascist transformation, "1945-1947 -- The Volkscongress movement and the end of the CDU's political independence, December 1946 -October1949 -- "Unity schools are secular schools": the struggle over religious education in the secondary schools of Berlin Brandenburg -- The competition between socialist and religious youth and women's organizations in Berlin-Brandenburg -- The conflict over charitable activity by the evangelical and Catholic churches in Berlin-Brandenburg -- "Christianity and Marxism are not in opposition": the propaganda offensive in East Germany concerning "religious freedom" under communism -- The Allied Religious Affairs Committee and the impossibility of a united religious policy for Germany.…”
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Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine /

Table of Contents: “…Moral argument in the human rights debate of the Russian orthodox church -- Post-communist orthodox countries and secularization : the Lautsi case and the fracture of Europe -- Power to the people : orthodoxy, consociational democracy, and the move beyond phyletism -- Power, protest, and perichoresis : on being church in a troubled world -- Strange fruit : Augustine, liberalism, and the good Samaritan -- An orthodox encounter with liberal democracy -- Democracy and the dynamics of death : orthodox reflections on the origin, purpose, and limits of politics -- "I have overcome the world" : the church, the liberal state, and Christ's two natures in the Russian politics of theosis -- Emperors and bishops of Constantinople -- Stepping out of Constantine's shadow -- "You cannot have a church without an Empire" : political orthodoxy in Byzantium -- Roman catholicism and democracy : the postconciliar era -- How (not) to be a political theologian.…”
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Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en la Nueva España, siglos XVI-XIX /

Table of Contents: “…El proceso de sor María de Jesús Tomellín (1597-1637), monja concepcionista poblana / Doris Bieñko de Peralta -- Música, rito y arquitectura en la Iglesia novohispana: clero regular y secular / Lourdes Turrent -- Inclusión de una nueva política de la imagen devocional en la arquidiócesis de Mexico (1855-1896) / Gabriela Díaz Patiño.…”
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California Mennonites by Froese, Brian, 1969-

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