This extensive study of American evangelicals explores the beliefs, values, commitments and goals of the ordinary men and women who make up this often misunderstood religious group.
Or are they abandoning traditional religious institutions in search of a new, more authentic "spirituality"? This book attempts to answer these and related questions as definitively as possible.
At the heart of the book is the theme of love, and it describes why authentic love – even in small matters – is so deeply important to our human journey.
Christian Martyrs under Islam examines how violence against Christians ended the age of porous religious boundaries and laid the foundations for more antagonistic Muslim-Christian relations in the centuries to come.
This encyclopedia travels around the world and across the centuries to uncover an often unexpected richness of meaning in some of the major sacred festivals of the world's religions, the hallowed calendars of ancient civilization and the ...
This eye-opening book explores the reasons behind such ungenerous giving, the potential world-changing benefits of greater financial giving, and what can be done to improve matters.
Based on research done in 1952 by the Bureau of Applied Social Research of Columbia University for the Dept. of Christian Social Relations of the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Bibliographical footnotes.