Download or read book A None s Story written by Corinna Nicolaou and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rising population known as "nones" for its members' lack of religious affiliation is changing American society, politics, and culture. Many nones believe in God and even visit places of worship, but they do not identify with a specific faith or belong to a spiritual community. Corinna Nicolaou is a none, and in this layered narrative, she describes what it is like for her and thousands of others to live without religion or to be spiritual without committing to a specific faith. Nicolaou tours America's major traditional religions to see what, if anything, one might lack without God. She moves through Christianity's denominations, learning their tenets and worshiping alongside their followers. She travels to Los Angeles to immerse herself in Judaism, Berkeley to educate herself about Buddhism, and Dallas and Washington, D.C., to familiarize herself with Islam. She explores what light they can shed on the fears and failings of her past, and these encounters prove the significant role religion still plays in modern life. They also exemplify the vibrant relationship between religion and American culture and the enduring value it provides to immigrants and outsiders. Though she remains a devout none, Nicolaou's experiences reveal points of contact between the religious and the unaffiliated, suggesting that nones may be radically revising the practice of faith in contemporary times.
Download or read book Overhearing a Christian Apology to the Nones written by Thomas E. Rodgerson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the steady increase of the religiously unaffiliated Nones in America has generated anxious responses about rising secularism and loss of national identity, this book suggests a wider meaning-making approach wherein the Nones are seen as valuable dialogue partners necessary in this pivotal moment for the revealing of still hidden truths about culture, spirituality, and religion. Christians who overhear this dialogue may find upon self-reflection an emerging truth about their relationships, embedded stories, level of faith development, and susceptibility to a culturally conditioned, transactional religion. Nones who choose to engage in dialogue may find that the “nothingness” they bring to the dialogue is more significant than they realize, revealing truths of an apophatic spiritual path necessary for generating a transformational faith of freedom and capable of rebalancing a divisive, consumer-driven society. The religious and the not-religious, who are often seen as being on opposite sides of an imagined religious threshold, may instead be seen as standing together in a liminal space that opens in wordless silence to yet unseen possibilities and from which emerge new stories aligned with the heart of Creation.
Download or read book The Nones written by Ryan P. Burge and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Second Edition, Ryan P. Burge details a comprehensive picture of an increasingly significant group--Americans who say they have no religious affiliation. The growth of the nones in American society has been dramatic. In 1972, just 5 percent of Americans claimed "no religion" on the General Social Survey. In 2018, that number rose to 23.7 percent, making the nones as numerous as both evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics. Every indication is that the nones will be the largest religious group in the United States in the next decade. Burge illustrates his precise but accessible descriptions with charts and graphs drawn from more than a dozen carefully curated datasets, some tracking changes in American religion over a long period of time, others large enough to allow a statistical deep dive on subgroups such as atheists or agnostics. Burge also draws on data that tracks how individuals move in and out of religion over time, helping readers to understand what type of people become nones and what factors lead an individual to return to religion. This second edition includes substantial updates with new chapters and current statistical and demographic information. The Nones gives readers a nuanced, accurate, and meaningful picture of the growing number of Americans who say that they have no religious affiliation. Burge explains how this rise happened, who the nones are, and what they mean for the future of American religion.
Download or read book The Nun s Story written by Kathryn Hulme and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ChristianityNext Winter 2017 Asian American Christianity Dones and Nones written by Young Lee Hertig and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American Christianity & Dones and Nones An interdisciplinary, scholarly exploration of Asian North American Christianity ChristianityNext is a journal of Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity (ISAAC)
Download or read book The Rise of the Nones written by James Emery White and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single fastest growing religious group of our time is those who check the box next to the word none on national surveys. In America, this is 20 percent of the population. Exactly who are the unaffiliated? What caused this seismic shift in our culture? Are our churches poised to reach these people? James Emery White lends his prophetic voice to one of the most important conversations the church needs to be having today. He calls churches to examine their current methods of evangelism, which often result only in transfer growth--Christians moving from one church to another--rather than in reaching the "nones." The pastor of a megachurch that is currently experiencing 70 percent of its growth from the unchurched, White knows how to reach this growing demographic, and here he shares his ministry strategies with concerned pastors and church leaders.
Download or read book The Nones Are Alright written by Oakes, Kaya and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revelation of the Nones written by Arnie Stone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you were told that everything you believe about your religion is false? A self-proclaimed "messenger from The Maker," arrives with a dire warning: the world will soon end, and The Maker will not intervene. There is only one way for us to save ourselves and her mission is to show us the way. She quickly harnesses the strength of the Internet, social media, and the mainstream press. Her message resonates strongly with those already feeling disenfranchised from the organized religions of the world. Soon, millions believe in what she says, abandoning the restrictive religions that they once followed. The unaffiliated, sometimes referred to as "Nones," rapidly increase their numbers. This globally expanding "religion of no religion" soon begins to threaten the leaders of the major organized religions, led by the United Religious Congress. As they prepare for their massive world-wide "Call to the Mountain" conference, they are determined to regain their power and their followers at whatever the cost.
Download or read book Blessed Are the Nones written by Stina Kielsmeier-Cook and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left struggling to live the Christian life on her own. In this memoir, she tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found unexpected community with an order of Catholic nuns, discovering that she was not "spiritually single" after all—and that no one really is.
Download or read book Nones Dones Warriors written by ,Freeman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in desperate times. The numbers of non-religion persons (Nones) and the number of un-churched people (Dones) are growing at alarming rates. Consequently, the number of people whose salvation is in jeopardy is also growing. The Christ Warriors have the difficult yet very rewarding task to help those lost souls find the loving light of Jesus. Nones, Dones, Warriors: Come to the Light of Jesus is your guide to becoming a Christian Warrior. It defines what we are fighting for, the warrior code of honor, who the enemy is, and the importance of reconnecting with the church. Everything is backed up with scripture and sound doctrine. For author contact go to christ-warrior.com
Download or read book None of the Above written by Elie Mikhael Nasrallah and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of redefining religion’s role in our lives is not an academic exercise. It is an urgent modern imperative. This book confronts all religious dogma. It challenges the idea and practice of the need for a middle man between man and God. It invites the reader to consider the modern rise of the “Nones”--the religiously unaffiliated--and to join this magnificent silent social tsunami. It explores with vivid and compelling narrative the story of the Nones showing the who, when, where and how of this revolt against religious corruption and its preoccupation with power, money and politics. Born in the East, Lebanon, living in the West, Canada, Elie M. Nasrallah, offers the reader emotion-ridden stories as he draws from personal experience of the “Lebanese War,” to highlight the role of organized religion in the Middle East and around the world. The content and style are both provocative and captivating making the theme timely and timeless. Are you fed up with orthodoxy and willing to free yourself from the shackles of conformity, outdated practices and stale tales of the tribe? If so, then this book is for you.
Download or read book Report written by District of Columbia. Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creative in the Image of God written by Katherine M. Douglass and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The declining religious participation among young adults, or “Rise of the Nones,” has signaled alarms across American Christianity. A closer look into the faith lives of thirty young adults who are, or were at one time, connected with a church, however, shows an articulate and aesthetically embodied faith life that seeks out connection with others, expression of their identity, and an openness to encountering God. Young adults see themselves, and all people in this pluralistic world, as bearing the image of God. They see creativity, in their own lives and in the lives of others, as evidence of this identity. This book is not an appeal to put more art into congregations, but rather an invitation to attend to aesthetic, embodied ways of knowing that exist among all people.
Download or read book The End of Barbary Terror written by Frederick C. Leiner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and for all. Drawing upon numerous ship logs, journals, love letters, and government documents, Frederick C. Leiner paints a vivid picture of the world of naval officers and diplomats in the early nineteenth century, as he recreates a remarkable and little known episode from the early American republic. Leiner first describes Madison's initial efforts at diplomacy, sending Mordecai Noah to negotiate. But when the ruler refused to ransom the Americans--"not for two millions of dollars"--Madison declared war and sent a fleet to North Africa. Decatur's squadron dealt quick blows to the Barbary navy, dramatically fighting and capturing two ships. Decatur then sailed to Algiers. He refused to go ashore to negotiate--indeed, he refused to negotiate on any essential point. The ruler of Algiers signed the treaty--in Decatur's words, "dictated at the mouths of our cannon"--in twenty-four hours. The United States would never pay tribute to the Barbary world again, and the captive Americans were set free. Here then is a real-life naval adventure that will thrill fans of Patrick O'Brian, a story of Islamic terrorism, white slavery, poison gas, diplomatic intrigue, and battles with pirates on the high seas.
Download or read book English Stories written by Þorleifur Guðmundsson Repp and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under Siege written by Austin Ruse and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades as a Christian leader — most notably at the U.N. as president of the Center for Family & Human Rights — have earned writer Austin Ruse, once a Washington liberal with little faith, his share of defeats and triumphs. Perhaps most valuably, he has intuited keen tactical insights from his confrontations with the dark side of human nature. You come away from this groundbreaking book with the sense that Ruse knows the enemy better than the enemy knows himself. Ruse carefully examines how the anti-Christian forces gained power over every elite institution in America. He exposes their most deviant plans for the future. He then issues his authoritative call to arms, brilliantly arguing that there is no finer time to be a faithful Catholic. God Himself called each of us to live in this time and place, to contribute to the renewal society and the Church, and to vanquish the enemies of civilization. Ruse argues that each of us is called specifically to this batt
Download or read book English Stories Edited by T G Repp Second edition written by Thorleifr Gudmundson REPP and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
