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God's Forever Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

God's Forever Family

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-18
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

The Jesus People were an unlikely combination of evangelical Christianity and the hippie counterculture. God's Forever Family is the first major examination of this phenomenon in over thirty years.

Straight to Jesus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Straight to Jesus

"Erzen is sensitive, savvy, and provocative. Her mastery of historical sources, ethnographic technique, and accessible writing style are evident throughout. She illuminates aspects of conservative Christianity central to the 'culture wars,' deepening our understanding of the movement's internal struggles over sexuality, gender, and family issues. Erzen has written a wonderful book."--Diane Winston, author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army "Tanya Erzen's wonderful and timely book provides us with a compelling cultural history of the Christian right in the post-war period--from the cold war to family and sexual politics--as well as remarkable ethnographic insight into the dynamics of Exodus International. With compassion, humor, and insight, Erzen takes the reader through the ideological, organizational, and daily practices used in efforts to change people's theological and sexual orientations, from self-help to conversion testimony."--Faye Ginsburg, Professor of Anthropology, New York University, author of Contested Lives

If Allah Wills
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

If Allah Wills

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-08
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Philpott has studied Islamic theology and practice for fifteen years but maintains his own deep Christian faith. This book is for Christians to give to Muslim friends to consider aspects of Islam and compare them to Jesus of the Bible and to historical facts. An excellent resource for Christian evangelists and apologists.

The Jesus People Movement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

The Jesus People Movement

Who would have imagined that the hippies, those long-haired, psychedelia-influenced youth of the 1960s, would have initiated a spiritual revolution that has transformed American Christianity? If you are unfamiliar with the 1960s, the counterculture, the hippie movement, and the Jesus People, then this book will transport you to that era and introduce you to the generation and the decade that turned American culture upside down. If you have read other books on the Jesus People, this account will take you by surprise. A refreshingly different narrative that unveils a storyline and characters not commonly known to have been associated with the movement, this book argues that the Jesus People, t...

Still Time to Care
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Still Time to Care

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-07
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  • Publisher: Zondervan

At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure. With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patient...

The Straight Line
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

The Straight Line

To be taken seriously, therapies that claim to “cure” homosexuality wrap themselves in lab coats. Even though the fit is bad, and such therapies and their theorists now inhabit the scientific fringe, the science of sexuality has made some adjustments, too, Tom Waidzunas tells us in this provocative work. Intervening in the politics of sexuality and science, The Straight Line argues that scientific definitions of sexual orientation do not merely reflect the results of investigations into human nature, but rather emerge through a process of social negotiation between opposing groups. The demedicalization of homosexuality and the discrediting of reparative therapies, ex-gay ministries, and ...

If the Devil Wrote a Bible
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

If the Devil Wrote a Bible

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

If the Devil wrote a bible, this book includes all his favorite subjects, sayings, and advice. Twenty-nine chapters plus his refutation of the Ten Commandments named the Ten Demonments and his own version of the Beatitudes called The Bebaditudes. What the Devil didn't count on was that the publisher would slip in responses by a typical Christian.

God's Plenty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

God's Plenty

God's Plenty examines the religious landscape of Kingston, Ontario, in the twenty-first century. The rich religious life of Kingston - a mid-sized city with a strong sense of its history and its status as a university town - is revealed in a narrative that integrates material from sociological and historical studies, websites, interviews, religious and literary scholarship, and personal experience. In Kingston, as in every Canadian city, downtown parishes and congregations have dwindled, disappeared, or moved to the suburbs. Attendance at mainline churches - and their political authority - has declined. Ethnic diversity has increased within Christian churches, while religious communities bey...

No Sympathy for the Devil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

No Sympathy for the Devil

In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. For an earlier