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Displaying final records 161 through 165 |
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Price: $12.99
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Sale: $36.20
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Manufacturer: Baker Pub Group
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dwight Perry
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Publisher: Baker Pub Group
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.30808996073
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Publication Date: 1998-12
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Reading Level: 175
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Description: Born from joining the best of African culture to Christianity, today's evangelical black church is rising from the civil rights struggle to help forge a united interracial witness. Breaking Down the Barriers promotes the unification of black and white Christians and gives an understanding of the historic black church so evangelicals can help put away misconceptions.
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.3082
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Publication Date: 1998-08-01
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Reading Level: 340
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Description: Howard Thurman is hard to lionize because he's hard to categorize. He was a minister to Martin Luther King Jr. and an academic at Boston University, and he has been posthumously interpreted as a mystic, a political visionary, and a model of parish ministry. "Human life is one and all men are members of one another," Thurman wrote. "And this insight is spiritual and it is the hard core of religious experience." Such statements make him as useful to black Baptists as he is to white Unitarians, which probably explains why his writings have not been packaged by the niche-marketing-obsessed publishing industry as well as they should have been--until now. A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life, an anthology edited by Walter Earl Fluker and Catherine Tumber, collects Thurman's meditations on everything from the universal vocational dilemma (in an essay called "What Shall I Do with My Life?") to his specific observations on the legacy of Dr. King (in a radio obituary delivered on the evening of King's assassination). Among the most striking and original aspects of Thurman's faith is his insistence on the political significance of Christian mystical experience. In essays such as "The Fellowship Church of All Peoples," he shows how a mystical experience of human unity can strengthen an individual's moral imagination in a way that has precise political consequences. In a world where public life often dismisses religion as personal affective disorder, Thurman's writings may fuel a purging and productive fire in the bones. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $13.50
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Manufacturer: Herder & Herder
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Baker-Fletcher
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Publisher: Herder & Herder
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.092
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Publication Date: 1994-09-25
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: Anna J. Cooper, an early 20th century black intellectual, was a foremother of the Womanist theology that still expands the consciousness of woman today. Drawing its title from her name for God, A Singing Something places Cooper's achievement in the contexts of feminist theology, African-American theology, the Social Gospel, and the Black Freedom movement.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $39.95
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Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Clyde McQueen
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Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.640808996073
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Publication Date: 2000-04
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Reading Level: 253
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Description: Churches play a vital role in African American culture, and not just as houses of worship. They also stand at the center of the political, educational, and social lives of black Americans. Clyde McQueen's interdenominational inventory of black churches surveys 375 churches organized between 1850 and 1886 and found in an area extending from present-day 1-35 east to Louisiana and from the Red River to the Gulf of Mexico, which were the regions of Texas where African Americans settled during the period studied. Many of these churches were, ironically, organized by people who professed to be Christians yet deigned to own other human beings. A number of the pioneer black preachers were taught to read and write by slave owners. McQueen's research shows how these churches nonetheless became thriving centers of religion, independent civic and social life, and freedom. McQueen provides for each congregation the year it was organized, the county and town where it is located, an address or directions for finding it, and any other history available. All of this is based on information McQueen gathered from interviews, church bulletins, special church programs, historical markers, and building cornerstones. The catalog is enhanced by photographs of sixty-four of the churches surveyed, and an introduction by William E. Montgomery places McQueen's work in broader historical perspective. Historians will find this first documented treatment of the formation of black churches in Texas an indispensable contribution to a little-known but important field of Texas and African American history. All readers can use the guide to visit places of historic interest around the state.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $3.72
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Manufacturer: Palgrave
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Dwight N. Hopkins
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Publisher: Palgrave
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.08996073
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Publication Date: 2002-02
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Reading Level: 222
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Description: Faith, hope, and love embody the black theology of liberation, a movement created by a group of African-American pastors in the last 1960s who felt that Christ's gospel held a special message of liberation for African-Americans, and for all oppressed people. Beginning with an intimate introduction, Hopkins writes of his mother's death, when he was nine, and reveals that his father's love for the poor influenced him to become a Minister and to pursue a life of service which required "a compassionate intellect and an intellectual compassion". Hopkins asserts that in this post-Civil Rights, post-affirmative action era, that all people, regardless of race, must join together in forging a new common wealth. Offering a detailed perspective on a new racial, gender, and economic democracy in the United States, Hopkins illustrates that black theology can be the key to personal and global liberation.
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Displaying final records 161 through 165
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