Upa: 654 books
Forgotten Reformer
Robert McClaughry and Criminal Justice Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Forgotten Reformer traces criminal justice practice and reform developments in late nineteenth-century America through the life and career of Robert McClaughry, a leading reformer. As a warden of one of America's toughest prisons, as a chief of police of Chicago, as a superintendent of two different...
by Robert A. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book has its origins in a comparative religions course Burns has taught at the University of Arizona for the past thirty years. Those who have enrolled in the class have come from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Whatever the mix, a shared curiosity about Christianity, Judaism, and...
by Albert Pleysier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Henry VIII and the Anabaptists describes a bloody chapter in the reign of the infamous Tudor king. The book begins with the birth of Anabaptism in the city of Zurich and follows the Anabaptists as they search for religious freedom across the European Continent. Intolerant of religious diversity and...
Jesus Consumer
Reframing the Debate between Faith and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Some scholars believe that Jesus’ punitive instructions about possessions and material goods amount to little more than antiquated sayings. By contrast, Jesus Consumer combines modern consumer research with the latest writings on historical Jesus to propose a model for contemporary consumer behavior...
Runner as Hero
The inner quest of becoming an athlete or just about anything...at any age
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In Runner as Hero, Jay Kimiecik becomes an athlete again_in his case, a masters runner_as a way to revive his life. Kimiecik explores the world of aging, training, and performing through a self-experimental, self-reflective lens_ merging science, mythology, and performance psychology. On his heroic...
The Existence of God
Convincing and Converging Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
The Existence of God is an affirmation of faith in God and a warning of the dangers of a world guided by the religion of atheism. This book warns against a religion based upon chance, deficient science, and deficient atheistic evolution (as opposed to theistic evolution). Modern advances in molecular...
by Van Nam Kim
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Multicultural Theology and New Evangelization sheds light on the central role of multiculturalism in the Catholic Church of the third millennium. In this book, Van Nam Kim addresses the challenges of new evangelization in the multicultural communities of the Church. Kim answers questions regarding...
In Search of Federal Enforcement
The Moral Authority of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Integrity of the Black Ballot, 1870–1965
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In Search of Federal Enforcement is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans’ voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum. This book satiates the reader’s harboring curiosity as to why the national government was culpably negligent in...
Rancorous Enmities and Blind Partialities
Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1807–1845
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Political developments in Georgia have always been baffling to those who did not live there. This work picks up the story of the evolution of Georgia political parties where the author left it in his first book, Politics on the Periphery: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806 (1986), carrying...
An Uncommon Christian
James Brainerd Taylor, Forgotten Evangelist in America's Second Great Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
An Uncommon Christian seeks to show how and why James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) became a popular participant during America's Second Great Awakening, and why the Princeton graduate and Yale Seminary student grew to be a frequent example of evangelical Protestant spirituality and evangelistic passion...
Deified Person
A Study of Deification in Relation to Person and Christian Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Deified Person: A Study of Deification in Relation to Person and Christian Becoming focuses on a theological exploration of “person” through the notion of deification and is placed within a Christian Orthodox–Byzantine context. The book offers new interpretations of person in relation to Christian...
Journey of a Rabbi
Vision and Strategies for the Revitalization of Jewish Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator. What threads its way throughout these writings is a persistent search for ways and means to revitalize Jewish life...
The Spirit of Enthusiasm
A History of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, 1967-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2010
In February 1967, a group of Catholic faculty members and students attending a spiritual retreat at Duquesne University experienced what they called a 'baptism in the spirit.' The experience of the 'Duquesne Weekend' spread rapidly to other college campuses in the Midwest and then throughout the United...
On Christendom's Far Shore
The United States and the Western Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
On Christendom’s Far Shore describes and explains American society by first illuminating its foundational stones: the traditional western (Judeo-Christian) faith in God and the West’s once common understanding of the natural order and the nature and destiny of man. It explores the biblical concepts...