Practices category: 4429 books
Victorian Reformation
The Fight Over Idolatry in the Church of England, 1840-1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
In early Victorian England there was intense interest in understanding the early Church as an inspiration for contemporary sanctity. This was manifested in a surge in archaeological inquiry and also in the construction of new churches using medieval models. Some Anglicans began to use a much more...
The Cabana Chronicles Conversations About God Comparing Christian Denominations
The Cabana Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
The various mainline Christian denominations are discussed by a group of retirees meeting each week under a cabana on the beach at South Padre Island, Texas. This book is one of a number of books comprising The Cabana Chronicles series of books on comparative religion and apologetics, the systematic and logical defense of the Christian religion.
Saints in Exile
The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1999
Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. Cheryl Sanders identifies the theme of exile, both as an idea and an experience,...
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Girl Evangelists in the Flapper Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
The 1920s saw one of the most striking revolutions in manners and morals to have marked North American society, affecting almost every aspect of life, from dress and drink to sex and salvation. Protestant Christianity was being torn apart by a heated controversy between traditionalists and the modernists,...
American Possessions
Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Stories of contemporary exorcisms are largely met with ridicule, or even hostility. Sean McCloud argues, however, that there are important themes to consider within these narratives of seemingly well-adjusted people who attend school, go shopping, watch movies, and also happen to fight demons. American...
Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity
Seeing and Believing
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence...
Earthed in Hope
Dying, Death and Funerals – A Pakeha Anglican Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
From the Foreword:
"Alister Hendery is offering us a great gift in this beautiful, resource-filled and comprehensive book. He has aimed to assist those within Tikanga Pakeha of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand to undertake ministry with the dying and the bereaved with creativity...
No More Whacky Worship
God's Revival Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
No More Whacky Worship
Series: God's Revival Series
Volume 1
Page Count: Approximately 182 pages (in print)
Much of our worship is "whacky". Whacky, meaning that it's worship that does not make true spiritual sense. "No More Whacky Worship" is a no...
Atheist Meditation Atheist Spirituality
Summary Version
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Finally, a book about meditation and meaning in life that is based on reason, not religious or supernatural explanations... Provocative and truly inspirational! One of the best books I've ever read.-Rachel Patel
We think we perceive reality, but we live in our minds, in self-created realities,...
Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue
Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Shared ritual practices, multi-faith celebrations, and interreligious prayers are becoming increasingly common in the USA and Europe as more people experience religious diversity first hand. While ritual participation can be seen as a powerful expression of interreligious solidarity, it also carries...
Sins Of The Church
What's Coming And Why
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
When does it become necessary for God to correct all of his people collectively? Sins of the Church is a outline of behavior commonly allowed and condoned in most churches. Sins of the Church is a chapter from China Hell And Israel; a book about prophecy, and the reasons for God's responds to an environment...
Magic of the Iron Pentacle
Reclaiming Sex, Pride, Self, Power & Passion
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
The Iron Pentacle is a tool for reawakening to our essential humanity and our sovereign selves. Exploring the themes of sex, pride, self, power, and passion, this book invites you to develop magic of the body that sings to the spirit.
Join authors Jane Meredith and Gede Parma on an intense...
Worship on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Exploring Worship as a Spiritual Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Rory Noland addresses the challenges of Christian worship head-on, offering practical suggestions gleaned from Scripture on understanding and experiencing vibrant worship. The first half of Worship on Earth as It Is in Heaven explores what it means to grow as a private worshiper. The practices of...
by Russell Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This is a story of hope. That individuality is a key to something more permanent and spiritually meaningful against the backdrop of a dead, dusty, and mechanical, clockwork universe.
This is a story of growing up, of self-realisation and actualization against a backdrop of 1990s popular culture....