Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Burning Faith PDF full book. Access full book title Burning Faith by Christopher B. Strain. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Christopher B. Strain Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 0813065747 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 195
Book Description
In the 1990s, churches across the southeastern United States were targeted and set ablaze. These arsonists predominately targeted African American congregations and captured the attention of the media nationwide. Using oral histories, newspaper accounts, and governmental reports, Christopher Strain gives a chronological account of the series of church fires. Burning Faith considers the various forces at work, including government responses, civil rights groups, religious forces, and media coverage, in providing a thorough, comprehensive analysis of the events and their fallout. Arguing that these church fires symbolize the breakdown of communal bonds in the nation, Strain appeals for the revitalization of united Americans and the return to a sense of community. Combining scholarly sophistication with popular readability, Strain has produced one of the first histories of the last decade and demonstrates that the increasing fragmentation of community in America runs deeper than race relations or prejudice. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Author: Christopher B. Strain Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 0813065747 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 195
Book Description
In the 1990s, churches across the southeastern United States were targeted and set ablaze. These arsonists predominately targeted African American congregations and captured the attention of the media nationwide. Using oral histories, newspaper accounts, and governmental reports, Christopher Strain gives a chronological account of the series of church fires. Burning Faith considers the various forces at work, including government responses, civil rights groups, religious forces, and media coverage, in providing a thorough, comprehensive analysis of the events and their fallout. Arguing that these church fires symbolize the breakdown of communal bonds in the nation, Strain appeals for the revitalization of united Americans and the return to a sense of community. Combining scholarly sophistication with popular readability, Strain has produced one of the first histories of the last decade and demonstrates that the increasing fragmentation of community in America runs deeper than race relations or prejudice. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Author: Dirk Rohmann Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110485559 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 369
Book Description
It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that presents evidence for the role played by Christian institutions, writers and saints, this book analyses a broad range of literary and legal sources, some of which have hitherto been little studied. Paying special attention to the problem of which genres and book types were likely to be targeted, the author argues that in addition to heretical, magical, astrological and anti-Christian books, other less obviously subversive categories of literature were also vulnerable to destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. These include texts from materialistic philosophical traditions, texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science. This book examines how Christian authorities, theologians and ideologues suppressed ancient texts and associated ideas at a time of fundamental transformation in the late classical world.
Author: Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops Publisher: USCCB Publishing ISBN: 9781574552997 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
In this statement, the bishops present a pastoral plan to help Catholics advance in their role as disciples, by awakening a renewal in the ministry of adult faith formation and helping all to grow to the full maturity of Christ.
Author: Florence Mars Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 9780807115664 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner—were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Florence Mars, a native of Philadelphia, recounts the grim circumstances of the killings and describes what happened to a community confronted by a challenge to long-held beliefs.
Author: Alcyon Ruth Fleck Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc. ISBN: 1572584459 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
A fascinating story of Adres Diaz, a Roman Catholic missionary priest who searched for truth, found it, and became a Seventh-day Adventist minister.
Author: Christopher B. Strain
Author: Christopher B. Strain
Author: Alfred John Church
Author: Dirk Rohmann
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Author: Steve Wilson
Author: Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Author: Florence Mars
Author: Philip Charles Parker
Author: Alcyon Ruth Fleck
Author: