Download or read book Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2003 written by Eileen W. Lindner and published by . This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a wealth of information about North American churches. The Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, 2003 is the 18th edition of an annual compilation of key information about denominations, churches, clergy, seminaries, and other religious organizations in the United States and Canada. The volume provides membership and financial statistics, descriptions of denominations, contact information for denominational offices, historical data, a directory of theological schools and ecumenical agencies, a calendar of religious holidays and festivals, and a listing of religious periodicals. The Yearbook is published with the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The editorial focus for this volume is "Megachurches: How Do They Count?" As in earlier volumes, the major portion of the book consists of statistical information, names and addresses, and brief descriptive paragraphs on various organizations. The 18th edition of the Yearbook again includes both a print and an online component. The database features full-text search capability with additional search queries and will be updated periodically throughout the year.
Download or read book Yearbook of American Canadian Churches 2008 written by Eileen W. Lindner and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches written by Eileen W. Lindner and published by . This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best compilation available of information about North American religious organizations
Download or read book Year Book of the Churches written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statistical Abstract of the United States 2006 The National Data Book written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Meant to serve as a convenient volume for statistical reference and as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. In recogniti
Download or read book Statistical Abstract of the United States 2006 written by Bernan Press and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Statistical Abstract of the United States is one of the most reliable and popular statistical references in existence. The Bernan Press Library Edition presents the complete, official content of the Statistical Abstract in an easily readable format - with 25 percent larger type than in the U.S. government edition - and with a sturdy binding designed to withstand heavy use in libraries.
Download or read book The Source written by Loretto Dennis Szucs and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""
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Download or read book The Statesman s Yearbook 2009 written by B. Turner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is fully updated and contains more information and analysis than ever before. A foldout colour section provides a political world map and flags for all 193 countries. Each copy comes with online access to the full text at no extra cost. Unlimited-user upgrades are also available for libraries who wish to network the data.
Download or read book Out of Africa The Breakaway Anglican Churches written by Ross Lindsay and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Africa: The Breakaway Anglican Churches tells the remarkable story of the emergence of a new religious movement within the Anglican Communion. The movement, made up of theologically conservative Anglican churches, began in Pawleys Island, South Carolina in January 2000 and, with assistance from the Anglican Church of Rwanda, Africa, has spread throughout the United States and into Canada. Every Episcopalian and Anglican should read Out of Africa: The Breakaway Anglican Churches. Ross Lindsay has done the church a huge favor by telling this compelling story that many of us have lived for over a decade. David Virtue, VIRTUEONLINE In Out of Africa: The Breakaway Anglican Churches, Ross Lindsay tells the story as it happened. I witnessed most of the events that he recounts, and he is spot-on in his recall and his analysis. Rev. Dr. Kevin Francis Donlon, Canon for Ecclesiastical Affairs, Anglican Mission in the Americas Ross Lindsay chronicles well the realignment of Anglicanism that was birthed at All Saints Church in Pawleys Island, South Carolina in 2000. By tracing the movement from inception, he reminds us that our call is to both missiology and ecclesiology. Lindsay describes the current developments as a movement with a mission. The Most Rev. Emmanuel Kolini, Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Rwanda (retired) ROSS M. "BUDDY" LINDSAY, III, C.P.A., J.D., L.L.M., Ph.D. is a tax attorney, CPA, and hotelier. He is the author of Building a Church to Last: The Miracle in Pawleys. He earned a Ph.D. in Church Growth from Brunel University and an L.L. M. in Anglican Canon Law from the Center of Law and Religion at Cardiff University Law School. Today he serves as President of Sonship Hospitality, Inc. and Sonship Ministries, Inc. where he coaches church planters and helps entrepreneurs move from empire building to Kingdom building.
Download or read book Brief Christian Histories written by James W. White and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we undergird Christian enthusiasm with Christian substance? Brief Christian Histories combines biblical and ecclesial history in a single volume, taking readers through 4000 years of our religion's history using four themes of interest: WHO has led us? HOW have we been guided ethically? WHAT have been our faith practices and pieties? WHERE have we interacted with culture, and to what effect? Reading any one chapter will give readers a feel for the Christian narrative as a whole. Reading two or more narratives will broaden readers' understanding of where we have come from--all to help understand this big religion of ours, deepen ourselves in it, and keep our faith fresh and moving forward. We move for God's New Order (basileia)--about which Jesus taught, for which he taught us to pray, and into which he invites our enthusiastic, substantive sojourning.
Download or read book Statistical Abstract of the United States 2007 written by Bernan Press and published by . This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Statistical Abstract of the United States is one of the most reliable and popular statistical references in existence. The Bernan Press Library Edition presents the complete, official content of the Statistical Abstract in an easily readable format - with 25 percent larger type than in the U.S. government edition - and with a sturdy binding designed to withstand heavy use in libraries.
Download or read book Religion in Sociological Perspective written by Keith A. Roberts and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion in Sociological Perspective is an introduction to the sociology of religion core text, designed to present and illustrate the basic theories sociologists use to understand the social dimensions of religion. First and foremost, the authors seek to help students understand the perspective from which sociologists view religion. By the time students have finished this book, they should understand the central theories and methods of research in the sociology of religion, and they should have an idea of how to apply these analytical tools to new groups they encounter. The goal of this text is to be illustrative rather than all-encompassing. The Fifth Edition continues to draw on a wide range of perspectives. The text aims to help students recognize the contributions of various theoretical perspectives and the blind spots of each theory. Conflict, functional, social constructionist, and rational choice paradigms are used throughout the text. Various middle-range theories are also utilized to explore specific processes. Despite the effort to introduce many perspectives, however, we have made an effort to enhance integration of the text by using one framework throughout the book: the open systems model.
Download or read book Globalization and Orthodox Christianity written by Victor Roudometof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With approximately 200 to 300 million adherents worldwide, Orthodox Christianity is among the largest branches of Christianity, yet it remains relatively understudied. This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalization, offering a substantive contribution to the relationship between religion and globalization, as well as the relationship between Orthodox Christianity and the sociology of religion – and more broadly, the interdisciplinary field of Religious Studies. While deeply engaged with history, this book does not simply narrate the history of Orthodox Christianity as a world religion, nor does it address theological issues or cover all the individual trajectories of each subgroup or subdivision of the faith. Orthodox Christianity is the object of the analysis, but author Victor Roudometof speaks to a broader audience interested in culture, religion, and globalization. Roudometof argues in favor of using globalization instead of modernization as the main theoretical vehicle for analyzing religion, displacing secularization in order to argue for multiple hybridizations of religion as a suitable strategy for analyzing religious phenomena. It offers Orthodox Christianity as a test case that illustrates the presence of historically specific but theoretically distinct glocalizations, applicable to all faiths.
Download or read book The Arab Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture written by Jonathan Rynhold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys discourse and opinion in the United States toward the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1991. Contrary to popular myth, it demonstrates that US support for Israel is not based on the pro-Israel lobby, but rather is deeply rooted in American political culture. That support has increased since 9/11. However, the bulk of this increase has been among Republicans, conservatives, evangelicals, and Orthodox Jews. Meanwhile, among Democrats, liberals, the Mainline Protestant Church, and non-Orthodox Jews, criticism of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians has become more vociferous. This book works to explain this paradox.
Download or read book Passing the Plate written by Christian Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passing the Plate shows that few American Christians donate generously to religious and charitable causes. This eye-opening book explores the reasons behind such ungenerous giving, the potential world-changing benefits of greater financial giving, and what can be done to improve matters. By illuminating the social and psychological forces that shape charitable giving, Passing the Plate is sure to spark a much-needed debate on a critical issue.
Download or read book A Culture of Faith written by Sam Reimer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many religious scholars have noted a decline in institutional forms of religion in Canada. With fewer Canadians regularly attending church or following denominational proscriptions, is institutionalized religion becoming a thing of the past? In A Culture of Faith, Sam Reimer and Michael Wilkinson argue that evangelical Protestants continue to show strong allegiance to their congregations. Through a national study, including interviews with over five hundred pastors and an analysis of financial resources, the authors argue that evangelical Protestant congregations demonstrate greater resiliency within a broader context of declining religiosity. According to their findings, weekly church attendance among evangelicals is substantially higher than the national average, church attendees say they get significant enjoyment from their religious groups, youth participation is high, and evangelicals are more likely to volunteer. While there may be signs of decline on the horizon, Canadian evangelical congregations seem to remain vital at a time when most other Christian traditions are waning. A clearly presented study of evangelical beliefs, organizations, leaders, and finances, A Culture of Faith reveals the current strength of evangelical Protestantism and its implications for the future of religion in Canada.
