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  • Privilege and Prophecy

    Social Activism in the Post-War Episcopal Church

    by Robert Tobin ...
    The Episcopal Church has long been regarded as the religion of choice among America's ruling elite, helping to set the tone for the moral and social life of the nation during the twentieth century. Shaped by their experiences of the Great Depression and World War II, a new generation of Episcopal leaders emerged after 1945, eager to place their church in the vanguard of social reform and ... Read more

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  • Here I Stand

    My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality

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  • Parish Boundaries

    The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North

    by John T. McGreevy ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    A "remarkable" study of white Catholics and African Americans—and the dynamics between them in New York, Chicago, Boston, and other cities ( The New York Times Book Review).Parish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century ... Read more

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  • A Church with the Soul of a Nation

    Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada

    by Phyllis Airhart ...
    Series Book 61 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    "As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. But was this Canadian-made church flawed in its design, as critics have charged? A Church with the Soul of a Nation explores this question by weaving together the history of the United Church with a provocative analysis of religion and cultural change.The story begins in the ... Read more

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  • Jesus, Jobs, and Justice

    African American Women and Religion

    by Bettye Collier-Thomas ...
    “The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as she anticipated the collapse of Jim Crow segregation and pondered the fate of African Americans. Following ... Read more

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  • Pursuing Truth

    How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland

    by Mary J. Oates ...
    Series series Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
    In Pursuing Truth**, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amid slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life.** Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modeled themselves on, and sometimes positioned themselves against, elite secular colleges. Oates describes ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions

    by Andrea Greenwood, Mark W. Harris ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • America's Church

    The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital

    by Thomas A. Tweed ...
    The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is also an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Head and Heart

    A History of Christianity in America

    by Garry Wills ...
    Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.Gary Wills has won significant acclaim for his bestselling works of religion and history. Here, for the first time, he combines both disciplines in a sweeping examination of Christianity in America throughout the last 400 years. Wills argues that the struggle now, as throughout our nation's history, is between the ... Read more

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  • The Episcopalians

    by Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., David Hein ...
    The story of Episcopalians in America is the story of an influential denomination that has furnished a large share of the American political and cultural leadership. Beginning with the Episcopal Church's roots in sixteenth-century England, The Episcopalians offers a fresh account of its rise to prominence. Chronologically arranged, it traces the establishment of colonial Anglicanism in the New ... Read more

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  • A History of the Episcopal Church - Third Revised Edition

    Complete through the 78th General Convention

    by Robert W. Prichard ...
    This thorough, carefully researched history sets church events against the background of social changes. This third revised edition will be up-to-date through the events of the 2012 General Convention of the Episcopal Church. ... Read more

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  • Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time

    The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860

    by Diane Batts Morrow ...
    Founded in Baltimore in 1828 by a French Sulpician priest and a mulatto Caribbean immigrant, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent African American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States. It still exists today. Exploring the antebellum history of this pioneering sisterhood, Diane Batts Morrow demonstrates the centrality of race in the Oblate experience.By their very ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD