Sundays At Sinai

Author : Tobias Brinkmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226074566

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Sundays at Sinai by Tobias Brinkmann Pdf

First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America’s oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner & Marx, Sears & Roebuck, and the giant meatpacking firm Morris & Co. As explicitly modern Jews, Sinai’s members supported and led civic institutions and participated actively in Chicago politics. Perhaps most radically, their Sunday services, introduced in 1874 and still celebrated today, became a hallmark of the congregation. In Sundays at Sinai, Tobias Brinkmann brings modern Jewish history, immigration, urban history, and religious history together to trace the roots of radical Reform Judaism from across the Atlantic to this rapidly growing American metropolis. Brinkmann shines a light on the development of an urban reform congregation, illuminating Chicago Sinai’s practices and history, and its contribution to Christian-Jewish dialogue in the United States. Chronicling Chicago Sinai’s radical beginnings in antebellum Chicago to the present, Sundays at Sinai is the extraordinary story of a leading Jewish Reform congregation in one of America’s great cities.

Author : Maurice O. Wallace
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022992

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King's Vibrato by Maurice O. Wallace Pdf

In King’s Vibrato Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice and its power to move the world. Providing a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes that helped inform King’s vocal timbre, Wallace shows how the qualities of King’s voice depended on a mix of ecclesial architecture and acoustics, musical instrumentation and sound technology, audience and song. He examines the acoustical architectures of the African American churches where King spoke and the centrality of the pipe organ in these churches, offers a black feminist critique of the influence of gospel on King, and outlines how variations in natural environments and sound amplifications made each of King’s three deliveries of the “I Have a Dream” speech unique. By mapping the vocal timbre of one of the most important figures of black hope and protest in American history, Wallace presents King as the embodiment of the sound of modern black thought.

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman,Joe William Trotter, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351584104

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The Ghetto in Global History by Wendy Z. Goldman,Joe William Trotter, Jr. Pdf

The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of ‘the ghetto’ over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies over the past five centuries. Transnational in scope, this book allows readers to draw thought-provoking comparisons across time and space among ghettos that are not usually studied alongside one another. The volume is structured around four main case studies, covering the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern Europe, the Nazis' use of ghettos, the enclosure of African Americans in segregated areas in the United States, and the extreme segregation of blacks in South Africa. The contributors explore issues of discourse, power, and control; examine the internal structures of authority that prevailed; and document the lived experiences of ghetto inhabitants. By discussing ghettos as both tools of control and as sites of resistance, this book offers an unprecedented and fascinating range of interpretations of the meanings of the "ghetto" throughout history. It allows us to trace the circulation of the idea and practice over time and across continents, revealing new linkages between widely disparate settings. Geographically and chronologically wide-ranging, The Ghetto in Global History will prove indispensable reading for all those interested in the history of spatial segregation, power dynamics, and racial and religious relations across the globe.

Author : Ava F. Kahn
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814338629

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Transnational Traditions by Ava F. Kahn Pdf

Despite being the archetypal diasporic people, modern Jews have most often been studied as citizens and subjects of single nation states and empires—as American, Polish, Russian, or German Jews. This national approach is especially striking considering the renewed interest among scholars in global and transnational influences on the modern world. Editors Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn offer a new approach in Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History as contributors use transnational and comparative methodologies to place American Jewry into a broader context of cultural, commercial, and social exchange with Jews in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. In examining patterns that cross national boundaries, contributors offer new ways of understanding the development of American Jewish life. The diverse chapters, written by leading scholars, reflect on episodes of continuity and contact between Jews in America and world Jewry over the past two centuries. Individual case studies cover a range of themes including migration, international trade, finance, cultural interchange, acculturation, and memory and commemoration. Overall, this volume will expose readers to the variety and complexity of transnational experiences and encounters within American Jewish history. Accessible to students and scholars alike, Transnational Traditions will be appropriate as a classroom text for courses on modern Jewish, ethnic, immigration, world, and American history. No other single work in the field systematically focuses on this subject, nor covers the range of themes explored in this volume.

Author : Daniel Galadza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198812036

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Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem by Daniel Galadza Pdf

This book examines the way Christians in Jerusalem prayed and how their prayer changed in the face of foreign invasions and the destruction of their places of worship.

Author : Christopher H Evans
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479884490

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The Social Gospel in American Religion by Christopher H Evans Pdf

A remarkable history of the powerful and influential social gospel movement. The global crises of child labor, alcoholism and poverty were all brought to our attention through the social gospel movement. Its impact on American society makes it one of the most influential developments in American religious history. Christopher H. Evans traces the development of the social gospel in American Protestantism, and illustrates how the religious idealism of the movement also rose up within Judaism and Catholicism. Contrary to the works of previous historians, Evans demonstrates how the presence of the social gospel continued in American culture long after its alleged demise following World War I. Evans reveals the many aspects of the social gospel and their influence on a range of social movements during the twentieth century, culminating with the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It also explores the relationship between the liberal social gospel of the early twentieth century and later iterations of social reform in late twentieth century evangelicalism. The Social Gospel in American Religion considers an impressive array of historical figures including Washington Gladden, Emil Hirsch, Frances Willard, Reverdy Ransom, Walter Rauschenbusch, Stephen Wise, John Ryan, Harry Emerson Fosdick, A.J. Muste, Georgia Harkness, and Benjamin Mays. It demonstrates how these figures contributed to the shape of the social gospel in America, while arguing that the movement’s legacy lies in its profound influence on broader traditions of liberal-progressive political reform in American history.

Author : Katie Day,Elise M. Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000289220

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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities by Katie Day,Elise M. Edwards Pdf

Like an ecosystem, cities develop, change, thrive, adapt, expand, and contract through the interaction of myriad components. Religion is one of those living parts, shaping and being shaped by urban contexts. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities is an outstanding interdisciplinary reference source to the key topics, problems, and methodologies of this cutting-edge subject. Representing a diverse array of cities and religions, the common analytical approach is ecological and spatial. It is the first collection of its kind and reflects state-of-the-art research focusing on the interaction of religions and their urban contexts. Comprising 29 chapters, by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into three parts: Research methodologies Religious frameworks and ideologies in urban contexts Contemporary issues in religion and cities Within these sections, emerging research and analysis of current dynamics of urban religions are examined, including: housing, economics, and gentrification; sacred ritual and public space; immigration and the refugee crisis; political conflicts and social change; ethnic and religious diversity; urban policy and religion; racial justice; architecture and the built environment; religious art and symbology; religion and urban violence; technology and smart cities; the challenge of climate change for global cities; and religious meaning-making of the city. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and urban studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, history, architecture, urban planning, theology, social work, and cultural studies.

Author : Gabriel Bertonière
Publisher : Edizioni Orientalia Christiana
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015041760128

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The Sundays of Lent in the Tridion by Gabriel Bertonière Pdf

Author : John Keble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590555597

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The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. by J. Keble by John Keble Pdf

Author : Henry Edward ELVINS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017268113

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Sacer Gyrus: or original hymns for all the Sundays &c., throughout the year, etc by Henry Edward ELVINS Pdf

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 082760677X

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Present at Sinai by Shmuel Yosef Agnon Pdf

Noble Laureate S. Y. Agnon brings together what has always been at the heart of Jewish religious consciousness: the Sinai event, the Revelation--as both memory and continuously renewed experience.

Author : Svetlana Kujumdzieva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351581837

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The Hymnographic Book of Tropologion by Svetlana Kujumdzieva Pdf

The Tropologion is considered the earliest known extant chant book from the early Christian world which was in use until the twelfth century. The study of this book is still in its infancy. It has generally been believed that the book has survived in Georgian translation under the name ‘ladgari’ but similar books have been discovered in Greek, Syriac and Armenian. All the copies clearly show that the spread and the use of the book were much greater than we had previously assumed and the Georgian ladgari is only one of its many versions. The study of these issues unquestionably confirms the earliest stage of the compilation of the book, in Jerusalem or its environs, and shows its uninterrupted development from Jerusalem to the Stoudios monastery, the most important monastery of Constantinople. Over time many new pieces and new authors were added to the Tropologion. It is almost certain that it was the Stoudios school of poet-composers that divided the content of the Tropologion and compiled separate collections of books, each one containing a major liturgical cycle. In the beginning all of the volumes kept the old title but in the tenth century the copies of the book were renamed, probably according to the liturgical repertory included, and by the thirteenth century the title ‘Tropologion’ is no longer found in the Greek sources as it became superfluous, and fell out of use.

Author : Marc Saperstein
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789624823

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Jewish Preaching in Times of War, 1800 - 2001 by Marc Saperstein Pdf

Wartime sermons offer a window on to how Jews perceive themselves in relation to the majority society and how Jewish and national values are reconciled when the fate of a nation is at stake. They also reveal a great deal about how rabbis guide their communities through the challenges of their times. The sermons reproduced here were delivered by rabbis from across the Jewish spectrum, and each is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction and detailed notes.

Author : William Denton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:$B51394

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A Commentary on the Gospels for the Sundays and Other Holy Days of the Christian Year: Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity to Advent, and other holy days by William Denton Pdf

Author : Don Carson
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781844749256

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The Message of the Church by Don Carson Pdf

The Bible begins and ends with God dwelling with his people, from Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, to the great multitude in the New Jerusalem in the book of Revelation. At each step, God gathered his people together, to speak to them, hear from them, and change them to be more like him. God assembling his people, whom he loves, is what the Bible calls 'church'. The church should aspire to be a group of vibrant, loving, risk-everything people who are passionately committed to living out the values of God's Word and looking forward to the new creation. Churches and their pastors and leaders need to hear what the Bible says about who they are and what they are to do. Chris Green takes 'the message of the church' to mean, first, that the church has a message, which is that God has saved his people through Christ; second, that the church is the created and saved result of that message; and third, that the church is a message, which is that he has saved broken people like us, and by belonging to his people we are trying to respond to him in the ways he requires. His stimulating and insightful exposition begins with a survey of the church 'from eternity, to Eden, to exodus, to exile, to eternity', and then focuses on various dimensions of the church's life and ministry, including its worship, unity, maturity, servants, gifts, holiness, boundaries and future.