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Bodies of Belief

Baptist Community in Early America

By: Janet Moore Lindman

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Bodies of Belief

Baptist Community in Early America

By: Janet Moore Lindman

The American Baptist church originated in British North America as "little tabernacles in the wilderness," isolated seventeenth-century congregations that had grown into a mainstream denomination by the early nineteenth century. The common view of this transition casts these evangelicals as radicals who were on society's fringe during the colonial period, only to become conservative by the nineteenth century after they had achieved social acceptance. In Bodies of Belief, Janet Moore Lindman challenges this accepted, if oversimplified, characterization of early American Baptists by arguing that they struggled with issues of equity and power within the church during the colonial period, and that evangelical religion was both radical and conservative from its beginning. Bodies of Belief traces the paradoxical evolution of the Baptist religion, including the struggles of early settlement and church building, the varieties of theology and worship, and the multivalent meaning of conversation, ritual, and godly community. Lindman demonstrates how the body—both individual bodies and the collective body of believers—was central to the Baptist definition and maintenance of faith. The Baptist religion galvanized believers through a visceral transformation of religious conversion, which was then maintained through ritual. Yet the Baptist body was differentiated by race and gender. Although all believers were spiritual equals, white men remained at the top of a rigid church hierarchy. Drawing on church books, associational records, diaries, letters, sermon notes, ministerial accounts, and early histories from the mid-Atlantic and the Chesapeake as well as New England, this innovative study of early American religion asserts that the Baptist religion was predicated simultaneously on a radical spiritual ethos and a conservative social outlook.

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288

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812206762

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9780812206760

James Watson

Solving the Mystery of DNA

By: Janet Hamilton

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James Watson

Solving the Mystery of DNA

By: Janet Hamilton

People have always observed that different traits are passed down from parents to their children. Throughout history, there had been many explanations offered for this phenomenon. By the middle of the twentieth century, scientists had learned that genes were what determined heredity, and that deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA), which contained the genes, was the key to this process. In discovering the true structure of DNA, James Watson and Francis Crick made the most important breakthrough in the history of genetics. This discovery was the beginning of a revolution in biology that continues to this day. In 1962, nine years after the publication of their landmark article on DNA, Watson and Crick were honored with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with their colleague, Maurice Wilkins. From cloning to crime investigation to medical science, developments in genetics have opened up a seemingly endless number of possibilities for the future. With his contribution to solving the mystery of DNA, James Watson has helped open the door to understanding the deepest mysteries of life. Book jacket.

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108

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Enslow Publishing

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0766022587

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9780766022584

James to the Rescue

A Book about Friendliness

By: Janet Noonan

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James to the Rescue

A Book about Friendliness

By: Janet Noonan

Although the Queen seeks to give a pretty ladybug a playmate just like it, it surprises her by befriending three very different insects, bearing out God's commandment that we should all love one another.

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Chariot Victor Publishing

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078140018X

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9780781400183

Movies and Money

Financing the American Film Industry

By: Professor Janet Wasko

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Movies and Money

Financing the American Film Industry

By: Professor Janet Wasko

This volume is the first in-depth study of the relationship between Hollywood and its financiers from the early film entrepeneuers who established the trade at the turn of the century, through the present day multinational, diversified film coporations that dominate the communication/entertainment industry of the world. Specific case studies are drawn from primary sources and crucial questions of financial control and corporate power are examined in light of their broader implications for media production and distribution.

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276

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Praeger

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0893911313

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9780893911317

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