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The House of David
Beset by scandals from its earliest days, the House of David defied the odds to become one of the longest-lasting intentional communities in United States history. Drawing upon an extensive archive of primary source documents, many encountered for the first time, author Evelyn Sterne reveals a larger story about religion and social change in the twentieth-century United States in this case study of a distinctive and little-known commune.
Jane Lead and her Transnational Legacy
This book concerns one of early modern England’s most prolific female authors, Jane Lead (1624–1704). Well-researched and clearly written, these essays focus on aspects of Lead’s thought including her attitudes towards Calvinism, mysticism, androgyny and the apocalypse, her role within the Philadelphian Society, and her transnational legacy - particularly in the German-speaking world and North America. This book suggests that Lead was far more radical than has been supposed. It argues that her religious journey had staging posts, namely an initial Calvinist obsession with sin and predestination wedded to a conventional Protestant understanding of the coming apocalypse, then the introdu...
Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America
Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society they anticipate. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of the migration and considers what it might tell us about the future of American evangelicalism.
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The Independent Methodists
The Independent Methodists have never been a large denomination, and even in the Northwest of England, their heartland, their history is little known. From the beginnings of the movement shortly after the death of John Wesley, the author describes the formative influences in the first half of the nineteenth century - Methodist, Quaker and Revivalist - that shaped it, giving it a distinctively lay character unusual in Methodism. The social and political factors that affected its development, such as the Peterloo Massacre, the Beerhouse Act and Chartism are explored. Early Independent Methodist societies often arose from breaches in Wesleyan Methodism over radical politics, and they also diffe...
A Kettle of Fish
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New Statesman
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News Notes of California Libraries
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
