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Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press published in association with Georgia Humanities
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 388 pages ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aspects of Georgia's unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches erected on this newly parceled land became the center of community life. These early structures ranged from primitive outbuildings to those with more elaborate designs and were constructed with local, hand-hewn materials to serve the residents who lived...
Author
Publisher
Westholme
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xiii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Depicts the role of religion in Abraham Lincoln's presidency, particularly the role of extreme losses in his life and how the use of religious texts in his speeches and debates led to controversy throughout his presidency.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time—from the award-winning author of The Reformation and Silence
A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity goes back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and encompasses the globe. It captures the major turning points in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox history...
A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity goes back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and encompasses the globe. It captures the major turning points in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox history...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Initially a populist rebellion against the established Protestant churches, evagelicalism became the dominant religious force in the country before the Civil War, but the northerners and southerners split over the issue of slavery. After the Civil War, the northern evangelicals split, eventually causing a conflict between fundamentalists and modernists. Only after the Second World War would conservative evangelicalism gain momentum, thanks in large...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Intelligent, thought-provoking and magisterial in its scope the series will reveal how a small Jewish sect that preached humility became the biggest religion in the world."--From container.
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