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Scientific Mythologies

How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs

By: James A. Herrick

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Scientific Mythologies

How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs

By: James A. Herrick

What does science have to do with science fiction? What does science fiction have to do with scientists? What does religion have to do with science and science fiction? In the spiritual vacuum of our post-Christian West, new mythologies continually arise. The sources of much religious speculation, however, may be surprising. Author James Herrick directs our attention to a wide range of scientists, filmmakers, science fiction writers and religious philosophers and discovers there the role that science and science fiction have played in such mythmaking. From scientists such as Francis Bacon, Francis Crick, Carl Sagan and Freeman Dyson, to filmmakers such as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, to science fiction writers such as Olaf Stapledon, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, Herrick finds a curious collusion of science with science fiction for promoting and justifying alternative spiritualities. The rise of these new mythologies, he argues, is no longer a curiosity at the edge of Western culture. This alchemy is catalyzing a religious vision of new gods, a new humanity, and alien races with superior intelligence and secret knowledge. This new mythology overshadows the realms of politics, science and religion. Should we follow such visions? Does science endorse these mythologies? Are we being offered a spirituality superior to the Judeo-Christian tradition? This book will help you decide.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830825886

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A Ruinous and Unhappy War

New England and the War of 1812

By: James H. Ellis

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A Ruinous and Unhappy War

New England and the War of 1812

By: James H. Ellis

An entertaining, well-researched study details naval battles and coastal incursions through diaries and regional news articles on the War of 1812. New England was hard hit by the War of 1812 with Great Britain. The war severely injured the maritime and commercial economy and inflamed the difference in interests between the Northeast and the rest of the country, where agriculture was the mainstay. The author has combed sources near and far, bringing to life a drama that was international in scope? but so local in impact.

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Algora Publishing

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0875866913

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Why Waco?

Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America

By: James D. Tabor,Eugene V. Gallagher

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Why Waco?

Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America

By: James D. Tabor,Eugene V. Gallagher

The 1993 government assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and eighty Branch Davidians, including seventeen children. Whether these tragic deaths could have been avoided is still debatable, but what seems clear is that the events in Texas have broad implications for religious freedom in America. James Tabor and Eugene Gallagher's bold examination of the Waco story offers the first balanced account of the siege. They try to understand what really happened in Waco: What brought the Branch Davidians to Mount Carmel? Why did the government attack? How did the media affect events? The authors address the accusations of illegal weapons possession, strange sexual practices, and child abuse that were made against David Koresh and his followers. Without attempting to excuse such actions, they point out that the public has not heard the complete story and that many media reports were distorted. The authors have carefully studied the Davidian movement, analyzing the theology and biblical interpretation that were so central to the group's functioning. They also consider how two decades of intense activity against so-called cults have influenced public perceptions of unorthodox religions. In exploring our fear of unconventional religious groups and how such fear curtails our ability to tolerate religious differences, Why Waco? is an unsettling wake-up call. Using the events at Mount Carmel as a cautionary tale, the authors challenge all Americans, including government officials and media representatives, to closely examine our national commitment to religious freedom.

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Univ of California Press

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0520919181

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Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller. Gathered from his Memoir by the Late Sylvester Bliss, and from Other Sources

By: James White,Sylvester Bliss

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Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller. Gathered from his Memoir by the Late Sylvester Bliss, and from Other Sources

By: James White,Sylvester Bliss

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385394422

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Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller

By: Elder James White

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Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller

By: Elder James White

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385206103

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The Yankee Road

Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America, Vol. 2: Domination

By: James D. McNiven

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The Yankee Road

Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America, Vol. 2: Domination

By: James D. McNiven

Who is a Yankee and where did the term come from? Join author Jim McNiven as he explores the emergence and influence of Yankee culture while traversing an old transcontinental highway reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific—US 20, which he nicknames "The Yankee Road." The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America combines fascinating history with a travel narrative, taking the reader on a journey through the places Yankees and their descendants settled as they expanded westward. Using a physical road to connect locations important to the Yankee cultural "road," McNiven takes us on side trips into individual stories, introducing readers to the origins of such large-scale and diverse ideas as conservation, public education, telegraphy, mass production, religion, and labor reform. This second volume of a projected trilogy, Domination, centers on the growth of industry around the Great Lakes in the mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth century, something that led to the Yankee victory in the Civil War and the emergence of the reunited country as a major world power. Erastus Corning, Ida Tarbell, John Brown, JD Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, the Kellogg brothers, the Wright brothers and Judge Gary, all make appearances.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1627875190

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9781627875196

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires

By: James E. Brunson III

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Black Baseball, 1858-1900

A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires

By: James E. Brunson III

This is one of the most important baseball books to be published in a long time, taking a comprehensive look at black participation in the national pastime from 1858 through 1900. It provides team rosters and team histories, player biographies, a list of umpires and games they officiated and information on team managers and team secretaries. Well known organizations like the Washington's Mutuals, Philadelphia Pythians, Chicago Uniques, St. Louis Black Stockings, Cuban Giants and Chicago Unions are documented, as well as lesser known teams like the Wilmington Mutuals, Newton Black Stockings, San Francisco Enterprise, Dallas Black Stockings, Galveston Flyaways, Louisville Brotherhoods and Helena Pastimes. Player biographies trace their connections between teams across the country. Essays frame the biographies, discussing the social and cultural events that shaped black baseball. Waiters and barbers formed the earliest organized clubs and developed local, regional and national circuits. Some players belonged to both white and colored clubs, and some umpires officiated colored, white and interracial matches. High schools nurtured young players and transformed them into powerhouse teams, like Cincinnati's Vigilant Base Ball Club. A special essay covers visual representations of black baseball and the artists who created them, including colored artists of color who were also baseballists.

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McFarland

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1476616582

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Florida Founder William P. DuVal

Frontier Bon Vivant

By: James M. Denham

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Florida Founder William P. DuVal

Frontier Bon Vivant

By: James M. Denham

The first full-length biography of the well-connected, but nearly forgotten frontier politician of antebellum America. The scion of a well-to-do Richmond, Virginia, family, William Pope DuVal (1784–1854) migrated to the Kentucky frontier as a youth in 1800. Settling in Bardstown, DuVal read law, served in Congress, and fought in the War of 1812. In 1822, largely because of the influence of his lifelong friend John C. Calhoun, President James Monroe appointed DuVal the first civil governor of the newly acquired Territory of Florida. Enjoying successive appointments from the Adams and Jackson administrations, DuVal founded Tallahassee and presided over the territory’s first twelve territorial legislative sessions, years that witnessed Middle Florida’s development into one of the Old Southwest’s most prosperous slave-based economies. Beginning with his personal confrontation with Miccosukee chief Neamathla in 1824 (an episode commemorated by Washington Irving), DuVal worked closely with Washington officials and oversaw the initial negotiations with the Seminoles. A perennial political appointee, DuVal was closely linked to national and territorial politics in antebellum America. Like other “Calhounites” who supported Andrew Jackson’s rise to the White House, DuVal became a casualty of the Peggy Eaton Affair and the Nullification Crisis. In fact he was replaced as Florida governor by Mrs. Eaton’s husband, John Eaton. After leaving the governor’s chair, DuVal migrated to Kentucky, lent his efforts to the cause of Texas Independence, and eventually returned to practice law and local politics in Florida. Throughout his career DuVal cultivated the arts of oratory and story-telling—skills essential to success in the courtrooms and free-for-all politics of the American South. Part frontiersman and part sophisticate, DuVal was at home in the wilds of Kentucky, Florida, Texas, and Washington City. He delighted in telling tall tales, jests, and anecdotes that epitomized America’s expansive, democratic vistas. Among those captivated by DuVal’s life and yarns were Washington Irving, who used DuVal’s tall tales as inspiration for his “The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood,” and James Kirke Paulding, whose “Nimrod Wildfire” shared Du Val’s brashness and bonhomie. “In large brushstrokes, but with great attention to detail, Denham embeds DuVal’s life in a wider portrait of the young Republic, and particularly in issues affecting the western states and the former Spanish borderlands Readers will find in this book a well-researched and well-written history that informs on many levels.” —The Historian “Relying on a variety of sources extending well beyond DuVal’s papers, Denham’s work provides an intriguing account of a southerner immersed in the dynamics of politics at both the local and national levels. The study will be a definitive must for any student of antebellum regional and national history.” —The Journal of Southern History

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611174678

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History of Livingston County, New York

By: James Hadden Smith

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History of Livingston County, New York

By: James Hadden Smith

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385427673

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Scottsboro and Its Legacy

The Cases that Challenged American Legal and Social Justice

By: James R. Acker

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Scottsboro and Its Legacy

The Cases that Challenged American Legal and Social Justice

By: James R. Acker

Nine black teenagers were accused of raping two white women on a train in 1931 in northern Alabama. They were arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in the town of Scottsboro in little more than two weeks. The Scottsboro Boys case rapidly captured public attention and became a lightning rod for fundamental issues of social justice including racial discrimination, class oppression, and legal fairness. Involving years of appeals, the Scottsboro trials resulted in two landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings and were a vortex for the sometimes-competing interests of the American Communist Party, the NAACP, and the young men themselves. The cases resulted in a damning portrayal of southern justice and corresponding social mores in several national and international media outlets, and in a spirited defense of the judicial system and prevailing cultural norms in other news reports, particularly in the South. Here, Acker details the alleged crimes, their legal aftermath, and their immediate and enduring social significance as evidenced in media portrayals and other forms of popular culture. Using extensive media reports, including contemporaneous newspaper accounts and interpretations of the proceedings, as well as the sallies of champions of various organizations and social causes, the author illustrates the role of the media in the cases and the effect the cases had on society at the time. In addition to tracing the history of the cases and their media portrayal, the book explores the legacy of the Scottsboro trials and appeals. It examines several issues relevant to the cases that, even today, have enduring significance to law and popular perceptions of justice, including capital punishment, racial discrimination, innocence, the composition and functioning of trial juries, the quality of legal counsel for indigents, evidentiary issues in rape cases, and media interactions with the courts. More than a true crime tale, this book takes readers through the crime but also illustrates its enduring legacy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313081441

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9780313081446

Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

By: James M. Nelson

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Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

By: James M. Nelson

Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. Theologians and religious practitioners have responded to this literature, producing a fascinating dialogue that deals with our fundamental und- standings about the human person and our place in the world. This book provides an introduction to the important conversations that have developed out of these interchanges. The dialogue between psychology and religion is difficult to study for a number of reasons. First, it requires knowledge of both psychology and religion. People with a background in psychology often lack a solid understanding of the religious traditions they wish to study, and theologians may not be up to date on the latest developments in psychology. Second, it requires conceptual tools to organize the material and understand the basic problems involved in any attempt to connect the science of psychology with religion. These concepts can be found in many places, for instance in the writings of philosophers of science, but they are complex and often hard to follow for those without a proper theological and philosophical ba- ground. Finally, authors who write on the topic come to the study of psychology and religion from a variety of academic and personal backgrounds. This makes for wonderful diversity in conversations, but it makes understanding and mastery of the material quite difficult.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387875727

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9780387875729

Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Also Pioneer Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1866 and 1867

By: James Thomas,Andrew Galatian

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Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Also Pioneer Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1866 and 1867

By: James Thomas,Andrew Galatian

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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3752579056

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9783752579055

George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Serenhedd James

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George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Serenhedd James

The Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, George Errington (1804-1886) was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the resurgence of the English Catholic Church, and would have achieved the highest offices himself had not a dispute between him and Cardinal Wiseman led to his fall from favour in the eyes of Propaganda Fide. He has come to be regarded as the leader of an 'Old Catholic' party as the struggle continued for dominance in the period of consolidation following the restoration of the hierarchy in 1850. An intimate of Newman, Errington maintained a large correspondence which covers almost every church controversy of his lifetime. His letters shed light on subjects which have long since been dormant and in some cases indicate that the popular interpretations of some affairs are not as clear-cut as has been argued by others. They also expose the various factions in the English Catholic Church at the time, and the slippery nature of the Roman administration. In this comprehensive work, Serenhedd James explores George Errington's motives and actions, and analyses the forces that were at play in the English Catholic Church of the nineteenth century. James highlights that matters of policy were clouded by issues of personality, and where politicking, as much as prayer, was an integral part of its way of life.

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Oxford University Press

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0191079146

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Family History James Alan Burdick

By: james burdick

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Family History James Alan Burdick

By: james burdick

The family history of James Alan Burdick as of February 20, 2016. Printed for review.

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1329914325

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Scientific Mythologies

Scientific Mythologies

A Ruinous and Unhappy War

A Ruinous and Unhappy War

Why Waco?

Why Waco?

Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller. Gathered from his Memoir by the Late Sylvester Bliss, and from Other Sources

Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller. Gathered from his Memoir by the Late Sylvester Bliss, and from Other Sources

Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller

Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller

The Yankee Road

The Yankee Road

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

Black Baseball, 1858-1900

Florida Founder William P. DuVal

Florida Founder William P. DuVal

History of Livingston County, New York

History of Livingston County, New York

Scottsboro and Its Legacy

Scottsboro and Its Legacy

Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality

Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley: with Histories of East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City, from their earliest Settlements

George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England

George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England

Family History James Alan Burdick

Family History James Alan Burdick

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