Building The Old Time Religion

Author : Priscilla Pope-Levison
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479889891

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Building the Old Time Religion by Priscilla Pope-Levison Pdf

"During the Progressive Era, a period of unprecedented ingenuity, women evangelists built the old time religion with brick and mortar, uniforms and automobiles, fresh converts and devoted protégés. Across America, entrepreneurial women founded churches, denominations, religious training schools, rescue homes, rescue missions, and evangelistic organizations. Until now, these intrepid women have gone largely unnoticed, though their collective yet unchoreographed decision to build institutions in the service of evangelism marked a seismic shift in American Christianity. In this ground-breaking study, Priscilla Pope-Levison dusts off the unpublished letters, diaries, sermons, and yearbooks of these pioneers to share their personal tribulations and public achievements. The effect is staggering. With an uncanny eye for essential details and a knack for historical nuance, Pope-Levison breathes life into not just one or two of these women, but two dozen. The evangelistic empire of Aimee Semple McPherson represents the pinnacle of this shift from itinerancy to institution building. Her name remains legendary. Yet she built her institutions on the foundation of the work of women evangelists who preceded her. Their stories -- untold until now -- reveal the cunning and strength of women who forged a path for every generation, including our own, to follow."--Back cover.

Author : Sheila D. Jackson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469113418

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Give Me That Old Time Religion by Sheila D. Jackson Pdf

Based on the author’s childhood this fictional novel is filled with spirituality and humor and gives the reader a glimpse into the world of a Baptist minister. Set in 1963, Rev. Shepard and his family move to Millington where he has been called to pastor the Great Saints Baptist Church. Millington is a small town that is racially divided by the river that runs through it. The whites occupy the town’s west side, while a community of influential Negroes occupy the east side. During this literary journey, the lives of the church members and townspeople are exposed and we bear witness to an adult world of scandal, secrets, and disgrace. Before he can get settled into his new position, Rev. Shepard is bombarded with the needs of church members. The timid Murlene Combs whose husband has fallen prey to the town whore, Magic, is in serious need of counselling. Other Millingtonites are Rev. Barry Nichols, whose love of himself makes him vulnerable to the temptations of Magic; the Higgins’ who struggle through an old family secret; Billy, the giggly kid who cannot maintain his composure during church; Sadie Green, the church secretary who is always complaining about her corns; the controversial Deacon Chester Hawkins; Smooth, the pimp from The Bottom; and a den of gossiping woman. Love and salvation emanate from the trials and tribulations of the denizens in Millington. While some are redeemed, the damned must pay the price for their sins.

Author : Jordan Maxwell,Paul Tice,Alan Snow
Publisher : Book Tree
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 1585091006

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That Old-Time Religion by Jordan Maxwell,Paul Tice,Alan Snow Pdf

This book proves there is nothing new under the sun regarding many of our modern religious beliefs. This includes Christianity, and how many of its beliefs could be far older than what we have suspected. It gives a complete run-down of the stellar, lunar, and solar evolution of our religious systems and contains new, long-awaited, exhaustive research on the gods and our beliefs.

Author : Priscilla Pope-Levison
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493427383

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Models of Evangelism by Priscilla Pope-Levison Pdf

Many sincere Christians dismiss evangelism due to enduring evangelistic caricatures. This book helps readers move beyond those caricatures to consider thoughtfully and practically how they can engage in evangelism, whether it's through one-on-one conversations, social media, social justice, or the liturgy of worship services. At once biblical, theological, historical, and practical, this book by a seasoned scholar offers an engaging, well-researched, and well-organized presentation and analysis of eight models of evangelism. Covering a breadth of approaches--from personal evangelism to media evangelism and everything in between--Priscilla Pope-Levison encourages readers to take a deeper look at evangelism and discover a model that captures their attention. Each chapter introduces and assesses a model biblically, theologically, historically, and practically, allowing for easy comparison across the board. The book also includes end-of-chapter study questions to further help readers interact with each model.

Author : Douglas Carl Abrams
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498545068

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Old-Time Religion Embracing Modernist Culture by Douglas Carl Abrams Pdf

American fundamentalism, for decades depicted as alienated from society, has garnered the attention of historians, whose studies have shown a more complex movement. This book, targeting the founding generation, seeks to understand their resilience, since their beginning through their adaptation to modernist culture.

Author : Douglas Carl Abrams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0820322946

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Selling the Old-time Religion by Douglas Carl Abrams Pdf

The relationship between Protestant fundamentalists and mass culture is often considered complex and ambiguous. Selling the Old-Time Religion examines this relationship and shows how the first generation of fundamentalists embraced the modern business and entertainment techniques of marketing, advertising, drama, film, radio, and publishing to spread the gospel. Selectively, and with more sophistication than has been accorded to them, fundamentalists adapted to the consumer society and popular culture with the accompanying values of materialism and immediate gratification, despite the seeming conflict between these values and certain tenets of their religious beliefs. Selling the Old-Time Religion is written by a fundamentalist who is based at the country's foremost fundamentalist institute of higher education. It is a candid and remarkable piece of scholarship that reveals from the inside the movement's first encounters with some of the media methods it now wields with well-documented virtuosity. Carl Abrams draws extensively on sermons, popular journals, and educational archives to reveal the attitudes and actions of the fundamental leadership and the laity. Abrams discusses how fundamentalists' outlook toward contemporary trends and events shifted from aloofness to engagement as they moved inward from the margins of American culture and began to weigh in on the day's issues--from jazz to "flappers"--in large numbers. Fundamentalists in the 1920s and 1930s "were willing to compromise certain traditions that defined the movement, such as premillennialism, holiness, and defense of the faith," Abrams concludes, "but their flexibility with forms of consumption and pleasure strengthened their evangelistic emphasis, perhaps the movement's core." Contrary to the myth of fundamentalism's demise after the Scopes Trial, the movement's uses of mass culture help explain their success in the decades following it. In the end fundamentalists imitated mass culture not to be like the world but to evangelize it.

Author : David James Burrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Christianity
ISBN : YALE:39002088677274

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The Old-time Religion by David James Burrell Pdf

Author : Leilah Danielson,Marian Mollin,Doug Rossinow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319731209

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The Religious Left in Modern America by Leilah Danielson,Marian Mollin,Doug Rossinow Pdf

This edited collection of exciting new scholarship provides comprehensive coverage of the broad sweep of twentieth century religious activism on the American left. The volume covers a diversity of perspectives, including Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish history, and important essays on African-American, Latino, and women’s spirituality. Taken together, these essays offer a comparative and long-term perspective on religious groups and social movements often studied in isolation, and fully integrate faith-based action into the history of progressive social movements and politics in the modern United States. It becomes clear that throughout the twentieth century, religious faith has served as a powerful motivator and generator for activism, not just as on the right, where observers regularly link religion and politics, but on the left. This volume will appeal to historians of modern American politics, religion, and social movements, religious studies scholars, and contemporary activists.

Author : Tom Betti,Doreen Uhas Sauer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614235446

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Historic Columbus Taverns by Tom Betti,Doreen Uhas Sauer Pdf

One of the first buildings in Central Ohio in the 1790s was a tavern and 200 years later--Columbus as a "foodie" town shows renewed interest in discovering its historic "liquid assets." Once historic taverns in frontier Columbus featured live bears chained to giant wheels, pumping water for travelers in need of a shower and giving new meaning to the term "watering hole." Existing historic taverns in Columbus span from 1830s through the 1930s and still have little-known histories, stories, scandals, as well as, architectural fabric to explore. One is built on a still active graveyard; another is in the building of a former Pentecostal church. Several remain from the Irish and German migrations and survived Prohibition; one was the quintessential gentlemen's bar still with pool room that connected by underground tunnel to the Ohio Statehouse in a time of temperance. Another was both a tavern and a bordello for Union and Confederate officers (though on different nights). Set in the social and political historic context of a changing city, the taverns offer a chance to explore the city's history through its watering holes.

Author : Chloë Starr
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781506487960

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Modern Chinese Theologies by Chloë Starr Pdf

Chinese Theologies introduces the vibrant development of Chinese theology in its many forms across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also challenges prevalent narratives regarding the lack of Chinese theologies and engages questions of the construction of theology in their own traditions/nations.

Author : Gregory R. Witkowski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253064165

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Hoosier Philanthropy by Gregory R. Witkowski Pdf

The first in-depth history of philanthropy in Indiana. Philanthropy has been central to the development of public life in Indiana over the past two centuries. Hoosier Philanthropy explores the role of philanthropy in the Hoosier state, showing how voluntary action within Indiana has created and supported multiple visions of societal good. Featuring 15 articles, Hoosier Philanthropy charts the influence of different types of nonprofit Hoosier organizations and people, including foundations, service providers, volunteers, and individual donors.

Author : David Edwin Harrell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253013422

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All Things Are Possible by David Edwin Harrell Pdf

“The first book to tell the story of the enterprisers who have personal followings . . . a missing link in the chain of American religious movements.”—Martin E. Marty, author of October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World Written by a Professor Emeritus at Auburn University, this is the first objective history of the great revivals that swept the country after World War II. It tells the story of the victories and defeats of such giants of the revival as William Branham, Oral Roberts, Jack Coe, T. L. Osborn, and A. A. Allen. It also tells of the powerful evangelists who carried on the revival, including Robert Schambach and Morris Cerullo. Those who lived through the great revivals of the 1950s and 1960s will be thrilled to read about those exciting days, and those interested in the religious history of the United States need to read this book to see what has led us up to this present moment in time. “Harrell has obviously attended countless rallies, read sheafs of literature, and personally interviewed many of the principals. He . . . tell[s] the story in a largely biographical format. This makes for lively reading.”—The New York Times Book Review “A book about healing revivalists that takes them seriously and treats them fairly.”—Journal of Southern History “Will be a definitive work for some years to come.”—Reviews in American History “Will attract readers interested in the reasons behind the various fat and lean periods among revivalists.”—Publishers Weekly “Harrell’s book will doubtless be the definitive work on the subject for a long while—who else will wade through Healing Waters and Miracle Magazine with such fastidious care?”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Christy Mesaros-Winckles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978714892

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Silenced by Christy Mesaros-Winckles Pdf

In Silenced: The Forgotten Story of Progressive Era Free Methodist Women, Christy Mesaros-Winckles delves into the gender debates within the Free Methodist Church of North America during the Progressive Era (1890-1920). This interdisciplinary work draws on narrative research and gender studies to reconstruct the lives of forgotten women who served as Free Methodist evangelists and deacons, examining their writings and speeches to illustrate how they promoted and defended their ministries. Mesaros-Winckles argues that the history of Free Methodist women is a microcosm of the struggle for recognition and acceptance faced by women across numerous evangelical traditions, especially amidst rising fundamentalism at the turn of the twentieth century. This book provides an important contribution to the fields of American history, theology, media studies, and gender studies, and will also be of interest to rhetorical history and communication theory scholars.

Author : Jack Sanders
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0738511722

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Ridgefield, 1900-1950 by Jack Sanders Pdf

Ridgefield has long been a destination-for tourists seeking a picturesque country village, for city dwellers looking for a weekend and summer retreat, and for immigrants in search of a new life. In the first half of the twentieth century, a period that corresponded to the heyday of the picture postcard, hundreds of views were published, depicting the beautiful Main Street, the many inns and resorts, the mansions, estates, village shops, churches, and scenic hills and lakes. Ridgefield: 1900-1950 offers more than two hundred of these glimpses of a bygone time of affluence and change-what one historian has called Ridgefield's golden era.

Author : Catherine Palmer
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0842311645

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Finders Keepers by Catherine Palmer Pdf

Elizabeth Hayes hopes to expand her shop by purchasing the Chamber House next door. The resulting feud drags the town into a battle of historic value vs. personal property.