Religious category: 31793 books
Singing in My Soul
Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating...
Heinrich Schütz. Geistliche Chormusik
epub 2 mit Zitierfähigkeit
Language: German
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Die Motetten der "Geistlichen Chormusik" sind ausgesprochen beliebte Stücke des Kantorei-Repertoires. Sie werden aber mehr und mehr auch von solistischen Ensembles und mit Instrumenten aufgeführt und erreichen damit ein noch breiteres Publikum.
Wie aber hat Heinrich Schütz diese...
Christian Metal
History, Ideology, Scene
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Christian metal has always defined itself in contrast to its non-Christian, secular counterpart, yet it stands out from nearly all other forms of contemporary Christian music through its unreserved use of metal's main musical, visual, and aesthetic traits. Christian metal is a rare example of a direct...
Pop Cult
Religion and Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional places of worship and set up their own, in clubs, at festivals and within music culture.
Pop...
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals...
by John Addington Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
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CHAPTER XIV.
GREEK TRAGEDY AND EURIPIDES.
The chapters on Æschylus and Sophocles have already introduced the reader to some of the principal questions regarding Attic tragedy in general. Yet the opening of a new volume justifies the resumption...
Edir Macedo
Brazilian Billionaire Bishop, Bestseller Books, Temples Empire and His Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Edir Macedo is a Brazilian religious leader and prominent media baron who has a net worth of $1.1 billion. New to the billionaire circles, Edir Macedo is the Chairman and Owner of Brazil's second largest television network Rede Record. Raised as Catholic, Macedo converted to a Pentecostal by the early...
The Bless Me, Father Series Books 1–5
Bless Me, Father; A Father Before Christmas; Father in a Fix; Bless Me Again, Father; and Father Under Fire
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This acclaimed series that inspired a hit London Weekend Television sitcom is “a long, gentle breeze of humour” (James Herriot).
Based on the author’s real-life experiences after completing seminary and later adapted into a beloved British sitcom, these five novels are a humorous and...
by Debra Holt
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
"He's back." Words Macy Donovan hoped to never hear.
Trace Cartwright was the maverick rodeo cowboy who broke her heart, leaving her on the steps of the church on the eve of their wedding. Now he's returned to build his home and to lay claim to her heart ... again. Macy barely survived...
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C., commonly known as Mother Teresa, was a Roman Catholic Religious Sister and missionary of Albanian origin who lived most of her life in India of which, since 1948, she was a citizen. A controversial figure both during her life and after her death, Mother Teresa...
Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy
How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This book by David Webster is a counter-blast against the culturally accepted norm that spirituality is a vital and important factor in human life. Rejecting the idea of human wellbeing as predicated on the spiritual, the book seeks to identify the toxic impact of spiritual discourses on our lives. Spirituality...
Descent into Hell
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In this provocative, classic metaphysical thriller, a group of suburban amateur actors plagued by personal demons and terrors explore the pathways to heaven and hell
Certain inhabitants of Battle Hill, a small community on the outskirts of London, are preparing to mount a new play by the neighborhood’s...
The Butcher's Daughter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
In 1535, England is hardly a wellspring of gender equality; it is a grim and oppressive age where women—even the privileged few who can read and write—have little independence. In The Butcher’s Daughter, it is this milieu that mandates Agnes Peppin, daughter of a simple country butcher, to leave...
by Bede, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This complete 5 book masterpiece now fits conveniently on your e-book reader! Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section. Bede, also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (Latin: Bēda Venerābilis), was...