Understanding Folk Religion 25th Anniversary Edition

Author : Paul G. Hiebert,R. Daniel Shaw,Tite Tienou
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385200573

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Understanding Folk Religion: 25th Anniversary Edition by Paul G. Hiebert,R. Daniel Shaw,Tite Tienou Pdf

This book has served the missiological community for twenty-five years as a resource for understanding human spirituality in any context. Thousands of students have incorporated the principles of this book into ministry around the globe. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition seeks to enable those who now bring their passion for mission to contemporary contexts affected by globalization, climate change, and political perspectives unimagined when this book originally appeared. Every community, wherever it is on earth, has its share of beliefs and values that manifest themselves in practices that reflect spiritual engagement. Those engaged in mission need to appreciate how underlying beliefs and values are reflected in handling spiritual power, worship and blessing, and interaction with others. Gospel communicators must account for these elements as they seek to make God’s intentions known to people who are searching for God. The models presented early in the book are essential for establishing what people consider spiritually critical. Applying these models in any religious environment will enable message-bearers to engage with beliefs and practices that promote a gospel presentation that makes sense. To that end, we commend this book for effective missional engagement.

Author : Paul G. Hiebert,R. Daniel Shaw
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781585584529

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Understanding Folk Religion by Paul G. Hiebert,R. Daniel Shaw Pdf

Provides a model for examining the beliefs folk religions around the world and suggests biblical principles missionaries can use to deal with them.

Author : Sravana Borkataky-Varma,Aaron Michael Ullrey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000878622

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Living Folk Religions by Sravana Borkataky-Varma,Aaron Michael Ullrey Pdf

Living Folk Religions presents cutting-edge contributions from a range of disciplines to examine religious folkways across cultures. This collection embraces the non-elite and non-sanctioned, the oral, fluid, accessible, evolving religions of people (volk) on the ground. Split into five sections, this book covers: What Is Folk Religion? Spirit Beings and Deities Performance and Ritual Praxis Possession and Exorcism Health, Healing, and Lifestyle Topics include demons and ambivalent gods, tree and nature spirits, revolutionary renunciates, oral lore, possession and exorcism, divination, midwestern American spiritualism, festivals, queer sexuality among ritual specialists, the dead returned, vernacular religions, diaspora adaptations, esoteric influences underlying public cultures, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), music and sound experiences, death rituals, and body and wellness cultures. Living Folk Religions is a must-read for those studying Comparative Religions, World Religions, and Religious Studies, and it will also interest specialists and general readers, particularly enthusiastic readers of Anthropology, Folklore and Folk Studies, Global Studies, and Sociology.

Author : Chris Sugden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN : 1851742247

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The Natural Mystery of Folk Religion by Chris Sugden Pdf

Author : M. Scott Peck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780743238250

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The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition by M. Scott Peck Pdf

A psychiatrist suggests ways in which confronting and resolving problems, a painful process most people try to avoid, can lead to greater self-understanding and spiritual growth.

Author : Darren Dochuk
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0393079279

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From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism by Darren Dochuk Pdf

A sweeping, five-decade history of the evangelical movement in southern California that explains an epochal realignment of American politics. From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramatic and largely unknown story of “plain-folk” religious migrants: hardworking men and women from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas who fled the Depression and came to California for military jobs during World War II. Investigating this fiercely pious community at a grassroots level, Darren Dochuk uses the stories of religious leaders, including Billy Graham, as well as many colorful, lesser-known figures to explain how evangelicals organized a powerful political machine. This machine made its mark with Barry Goldwater, inspired Richard Nixon’s “Southern Solution,” and achieved its greatest triumph with the victories of Ronald Reagan. Based on entirely new research, the manuscript has already won the prestigious Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians. The judges wrote, “Dochuk offers a rich and multidimensional perspective on the origins of one of the most far-ranging developments of the second half of the twentieth century: the rise of the New Right and modern conservatism.”

Author : Kevin E. Martin,Robert Michael Lewis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666733792

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The Three Conversions of the Christian Life by Kevin E. Martin,Robert Michael Lewis Pdf

Christianity is a religion of conversion, but what is conversion? This book explores the fullness of the Christian life and the threefold turnings that it demands of Jesus’ followers. Starting with St. Paul while looking in detail at his Damascus Road experience and examining the remarkable lives of exemplary Christians, the authors unfold dynamics of conversion and call all followers to grow deeper in their discipleship.

Author : Abraham G. Ndung'u
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725273504

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The Influence of the Church on the Local Community by Abraham G. Ndung'u Pdf

The church is called to be the agency through which God is not only known but through which his kingdom is also advanced. This book, therefore, is an attempt to examine the church's influence on communities through social justice practices as part of advancing the gospel of the kingdom of God. The book brings out results of a study about a congregation's significant impact on a local community through varied social justice programs. The book also provides relevant recommendations on how such initiatives can be improved for a more effective kingdom-driven ministry to local communities. It is hoped that the example of J. Jireh Ministry Church provides a case worthy of emulation by other churches, congregations, and similar faith-based community organizations for ministering to social justice needs at the local level.

Author : Harvinder Singh Bhatti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015052296020

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Folk Religion by Harvinder Singh Bhatti Pdf

On detailed inquiry of folk religion of Punjab.

Author : Dianne M. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195154153

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Three Eyes for the Journey by Dianne M. Stewart Pdf

Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed new religious meaning. In this fieldwork-based study Stewart shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation. She examines the African-derived and African-centered traditions in historical and contemporary Jamaica: Myal, Obeah, Native Baptist, Revival/Zion, Kumina, and Rastafari, and draws on them to forge a new womanist liberation theology for the Caribbean.

Author : Mark Silversides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Occasional services
ISBN : 1851740201

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Folk Religion by Mark Silversides Pdf

Author : Cheryl J. Sanders
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725226081

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Ministry at the Margins by Cheryl J. Sanders Pdf

For centuries women, youth, and the poor have been seen as objects of Christian ministry, but rarely as those who do ministry themselves. This is so much the case that in some quarters today ministry and mission are bad words, reeking of older and paternalistic models of Christian "service." In this challenging book, Cheryl Sanders demonstrates how mission can be updated. Far from being regressive or irrelevant in a multicultural, nonpatriarchal world, Christian mission can come alive when it is not just ministry to but ministry by marginalized groups seeking justice. Ministry at the Margins is an important Christian ethicist's rousing call to "find grace to articulate a theology of inclusion and to establish inclusive practices and multicultural perspectives that harmonize with the gospel we preach and honor the Christ we proclaim." Essential reading for pastors, church leaders, students, urban missionaries, and campus ministers.

Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520945326

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Evolution by Peter J. Bowler Pdf

Since its original publication in 1989, Evolution: The History of an Idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This twentieth anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining recent scholarship and trends within the study of evolution.

Author : Do Hoon Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666709810

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John Eliot's Puritan Ministry to New England "Indians" by Do Hoon Kim Pdf

John Eliot (1604–90) has been called “the apostle to the Indians.” This book looks at Eliot not from the perspective of modern Protestant “mission” studies (the approach mainly adopted by previous research) but in the historical and theological context of seventeenth-century puritanism. Drawing on recent research on migration to New England, the book argues that Eliot, like many other migrants, went to New England primarily in search of a safe haven to practice pure reformed Christianity, not to convert Indians. Eliot’s Indian ministry started from a fundamental concern for the conversion of the unconverted, which he derived from his experience of the puritan movement in England. Consequently, for Eliot, the notion of New England Indian “mission” was essentially conversion-oriented, Word-centered, and pastorally focused, and (in common with the broader aims of New England churches) pursued a pure reformed Christianity. Eliot hoped to achieve this through the establishment of Praying Towns organized on a biblical model—where preaching, pastoral care, and the practice of piety could lead to conversion—leading to the formation of Indian churches composed of “sincere converts.”

Author : Yohan Hong
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666706819

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A Theological Understanding of Power for Poverty Alleviation in the Philippines by Yohan Hong Pdf

This book calls attention to the sense of powerlessness of everyday people in the Philippines, and to the missional agency of US-based Filipino Protestants. Through a variety of sociological-theological-missiological perspectives, this book guides you to a journey of discovering what kind of power is in play, how the fallen powers can be named and made visible, and then ultimately the ways through which power should be restored. In this process, the voices, perceptions, stories, and insights of US-based Filipino Protestants are referred to. Filipino American Protestants are no longer "forgotten Asians" in the US. Instead, they actively perceive, negotiate, and exercise power in everyday life, and strive to wield their missional agency in response to God's calling for the transformation of their homeland Philippines, which has been seldom investigated in the academia of Diaspora Missiology and Intercultural Studies.