A Sketch of the Life and Labors of Richard McNemar (Classic Reprint)

A Sketch of the Life and Labors of Richard McNemar (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Patterson Maclean
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2016-08-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781333309336

Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life and Labors of Richard McNemar Two descriptions of this remarkable man have been preserved. He represents him as tall and gaunt, but commanding in appearance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Disappointed

The Disappointed
Author: Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780870497933

The first edition (now out of print) grew out of a conference held in Vermont, May-June 1984; the second includes minor changes and one important new document. The subject is the thinking and influence of William Miller whose prediction of the second coming of Christ and the end of the world "about the year 1843" fostered several new religious movements, including Seventh-day Adventists. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Political Science of Religion

Political Science of Religion
Author: Maciej Potz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-08-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3030201694

This book introduces political science of religion – a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science. In this framework, religion is viewed as a political ideology providing legitimation for power and motivating political attitudes and behaviors of the public. Religious organizations are political actors negotiating the political system in the pursuit of their faith-based objectives. Religion is thus interpreted as a power resource and religious groups as political players. The theoretical framework developed in the first part is applied to the study of theocracies and contemporary democracies, based on the case studies of Poland and the USA. The empirical analysis of resources, strategies and opportunities of religious actors demonstrates their ability to influence the politics of democracies and non-democracies alike. Using a multilevel approach, the book seeks to explain this tremendous political potential of religion.

Expecting Armageddon

Expecting Armageddon
Author: Jon R. Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1135210365

The expectation of an end to time and the yearning for a millennial paradise have been recurring themes in Western religious thought. But when we speak of expectation of the world's end we are mindful of the fact that generation after generation of millenarians have been disappointed. Their endtime hopes and prophecies have not come true. What happens, one might ask, when prophecies fail? Does failure spell the end of the very movements that embrace such expectations? The aim of this anthology is to gather together in one volume the essential research from the fields of sociology and psychology that seeks to answer this intriguing question as first raised by Festinger in his 1956 work, When Prophecy Fails. Cross-cultural and comparative, this collection chronicles forty years of research into failed prophecy and response to the attending cognitive dissonance it produces that is at once timely and informative.

A Sketch of the Life and Labors of Richard McNemar

A Sketch of the Life and Labors of Richard McNemar
Author: John Patterson MacLean
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781298695413

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Shaker Autobiographies, Biographies and Testimonies, 1806–1907 Vol 1

Shaker Autobiographies, Biographies and Testimonies, 1806–1907 Vol 1
Author: GlendyneR Wergland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 794
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351548859

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ?Mother Ann? Lee. The American communities they founded were based on ideals of pacifism, celibacy and gender equality. The texts included in this edition come from first-hand accounts of life in the Shaker communities during the nineteenth century.