A Country Strange and Far

A Country Strange and Far
Author: Michael C. McKenzie
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496218817

A Country Strange and Far considers how and why the Methodist Church failed in the Pacific Northwest and how place can affect religious transplantation and growth.

The Politics of Prohibition

The Politics of Prohibition
Author: Lisa M. F. Andersen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2013-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107434432

This book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition Party - drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F. Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial and personal resources from parties already lacking in both. More than most other minor parties, the Prohibition Party resisted an encroaching Democratic-Republican stranglehold over governance. When Prohibitionists found themselves excluded from elections, they devised a variety of tactics: they occupied saloons, pressed lawsuits, forged utopian communities, and organized dry consumers to solicit alcohol-free products.

A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2

A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2
Author: David Henry Bradley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532688296

In this second volume, David H. Bradley picks up the story of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion in 1873. From there he follows A. M. E. Zion’s growth through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement, showing the denomination’s special capacity for empowering lay people to be crucial to African American organization in the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout, Bradley explores the dynamics of organizational institutionalization in the midst of new growth and transformation through the Great Migration and the flowering of A. M. E. Zion churches in new African American communities on the West Coast.

Temples for a Modern God

Temples for a Modern God
Author: Jay M. Price
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 019992595X

After World War II, Americans constructed an unprecedented number of synagogues, churches, cathedrals, chapels, and other structures. The book is one of the first major studies of American religious architecture in the postwar period, and it reveals the diverse and complicated set of issues that emerged just as one of the nation's biggest building booms unfolded. Price argues that the resulting structures, as often mocked as loved, were physical embodiments of an important time in American religious history.

Official Journal of the Conference Convention

Official Journal of the Conference Convention
Author: Crafts James Wright
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2016-05-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781356764662

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