Author: Gary Schwartz
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: status, social, ideologies, sect
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1970-09-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226742164
ISBN-13: 9780226742168
In this penetrating study of urban religion, Gary Schwartz examines the nature of the relationship between religious belief and the social order. He shows how a person’s experience in the social hierarchy shapes his response to competing religious ideologies and, in turn, how commitment to a particular sect ideology colors his attitude toward mundane affairs. The author studied and compared a Pentecostal group and a Seventh-day Adventist group in preparation for this work. The question which stimulated the investigation can be stated as a paradox. In the Adventist case, why should person
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Publisher: Research & Information Services
Keywords: house, sect, nameless, gospel, workers, reflections
Number of Pages: 716
Published: 1993-12
List price: $10.45
ISBN-10: 0963941917
ISBN-13: 9780963941916
This is the first of a series exploring the varied experiences of those who have come out of a supposedly nameless, world-wide religion which has managed to elude the attention of outsiders for much of its history. The accounts collected here have been written by former members, worker/ministers, and relatives. Together, they present a fascinating and rare glimpse into a religious system all but unknown to outsiders. Most of the former members who have written here were passionate believers in "The Way," before being jarred into reexamination by encounters with serious issues and inconsistenci
Author: Charles William Hepner
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: shinto, sect, kurozumi
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0766191990
ISBN-13: 9780766191990
1935. In 1912 Hepner was ordained and commissioned by the Board of Foreign Missions of The United Synod South as a Missionary to Japan. During his tenure there he acquired an unusual facility both in speaking and reading Japanese. Within a few years, he decided on Shinto as his special field of study and thus began the study that lead to this publication. This volume contains Hepner’s dissertation on the Kurozumi Sect, which introduces academic circles of the Occident to the Culture Religion State of Shinto, and makes a valuable contribution in the field of Comparative Religion.
Author: James H. Hunt
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: examination, book, mormon, sect, progress, embracing, origin, rise, mormonism
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2006-07-25
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1428648593
ISBN-13: 9781428648593
Also, Their Troubles In Missouri, And Final Expulsion From The State. With An Appendix Giving An Account Of The Late Disturbances In Illinois, Which Resulted In The Death Of Joseph And Hyrum Smith.
Authors:Robert Burton, J. B. Bamborough, Martin Dodsw
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: memb, subs, second, partition, sect, part, melancholy, volume, commentary, anatomy
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2000-06-22
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0198184859
ISBN-13: 9780198184850
This volume contains commentary on the text from Partition 1, Section 2, Member 4, Subscription 1 to the end of the second Partition. It thus includes Burton’s account of the causes, symptoms, and prognosis of melancholy, and his examination of remedies, spiritual and medical.
Author: V Skulachev
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: reviews, sect, scientific, soviet, physicochemical, biology
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 1986-01-31
List price: $611.00
ISBN-10: 3718602687
ISBN-13: 9783718602681
Author: Dr. James D. Price
Publisher: James D. Price Publisher
Keywords: sect, new, onlyism, james, king
Number of Pages: 658
Published: 2010-05-21
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0979114705
ISBN-13: 9780979114700
Contains pictures, charts, tables, diagrams, table of contents, 10 appendices, glossary, bibliography, and author and subject index.
