American Gospel

American Gospel
Author: Jon Meacham
Publsiher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812976663

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how the Founding Fathers viewed faith—and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American Gospel draws on the past to offer a new perspective. Meacham re-creates the fascinating history of a nation grappling with religion and politics–from John Winthrop’s “city on a hill” sermon to Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence; from the Revolution to the Civil War; from a proposed nineteenth-century Christian Amendment to the Constitution to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call for civil rights; from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. Debates about religion and politics are often more divisive than illuminating. Secularists point to a “wall of separation between church and state,” while many conservatives act as though the Founding Fathers were apostles in knee britches. As Meacham shows in this brisk narrative, neither extreme has it right. At the heart of the American experiment lies the God of what Benjamin Franklin called “public religion,” a God who invests all human beings with inalienable rights while protecting private religion from government interference. It is a great American balancing act, and it has served us well. Meacham has written and spoken extensively about religion and politics, and he brings historical authority and a sense of hope to the issue. American Gospel makes it compellingly clear that the nation’s best chance of summoning what Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature” lies in recovering the spirit and sense of the Founding. In looking back, we may find the light to lead us forward. Praise for American Gospel “In his American Gospel, Jon Meacham provides a refreshingly clear, balanced, and wise historical portrait of religion and American politics at exactly the moment when such fairness and understanding are much needed. Anyone who doubts the relevance of history to our own time has only to read this exceptional book.”—David McCullough, author of 1776 “Jon Meacham has given us an insightful and eloquent account of the spiritual foundation of the early days of the American republic. It is especially instructive reading at a time when the nation is at once engaged in and deeply divided on the question of religion and its place in public life.”—Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation

An American Gospel

An American Gospel
Author: Erik Reece
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781101028643

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From the award-winning author of Lost Mountain, a stirring work of memoir, spiritual journey, and historical inquiry. At the age of thirty-three, Erik Reece's father, a Baptist minister, took his own life, leaving Erik in the care of his grandmother and his grandfather-also a fundamentalist Baptist preacher, and a pillar of his rural Virginia community. While Erik grew up with a conflicted relationship with Christianity, he unexpectedly found comfort in the Jefferson Bible. Inspired by the text, he undertook what would become a spiritual and literary quest to identify an "American gospel" coursing through the work of both great and forgotten American geniuses, from William Byrd to Walt Whitman to William James to Lynn Margulis. The result of Reece's journey is a deeply intimate, stirring book about personal, political, and historical demons-and the geniuses we must call upon to combat them.

Blessed

Blessed
Author: Kate Bowler
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2018-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780190876739

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'Blessed' offers a comprehensive history of the rise of the American prosperity gospel. What began as diverse metaphysical, pentecostal, and self-help conceptions about the power of the mind became one of the most influential popular religious movements of the last century. The book follows how the movement took shape after World War II in pentecostal healing revivals and exploded onto the national scene through televangelists with big hair and bigger promises. It survived the scandals of the late 1980s and remade its image as a therapeutic and effective theology of modern living. Now thriving in the 21st century megachurch movement, the prosperity gospel reigns as a full-fledged cultural phenomenon.

American Gospel

American Gospel
Author: Lin Enger
Publsiher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781452965727

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Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision On a small farm beside a lake in Minnesota’s north woods an old man is waiting for the Rapture, which God has told him will happen in two weeks, on August 19, 1974. When word gets out, Last Days Ranch becomes ground zero for The End, drawing zealots, curiosity seekers, and reporters—among them the prophet’s son, a skeptical New York writer suddenly caught between his overbearing father and the news story of a lifetime. Into the mix comes Melanie Magnus, a glamorous actress who has old allegiances to both father and son. Meanwhile, Nixon’s resignation has transfixed the nation. Writing with clear compassion and gentle wit, Lin Enger draws us into these disparate yet inextricably linked lives, each enacting a part in a drama forever being replayed and together moving toward a conclusion that will take all of them—and us—by surprise. Set during a time that resonates with our own tension-filled moment, American Gospel cuts close to the battles occurring within ourselves and for the soul of the nation, and in doing so radiates light on a dark strain in America’s psyche, when the false security of dogma competes with the risky tumult of freedom.

Exporting the American Gospel

Exporting the American Gospel
Author: Steve Brouwer,Paul Gifford,Susan D. Rose
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781136672194

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As the pressures of globalization are crushing local traditions, millions of uprooted people are buying into a new American salvation product. This fundamentalist Christianity, a fusion of American popular religion and politics, is one of the most significant cultural influences exported from the United States. With illuminating case studies based on extensive field research, Exporting the American Gospel demonstrates how Christian fundamentalism has taken hold in many nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music

Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music
Author: W. K. McNeil
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781135377007

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The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music is the first comprehensive reference to cover this important American musical form. Coverage includes all aspects of both African-American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends.

This American Gospel

This American Gospel
Author: Ethan Richardson
Publsiher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1475067003

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For millions of listeners worldwide, the public radio program This American Life serves as an indispensable weekly reminder of what it means to be alive. The show has a rare gift for capturing the complexities of life, and in a very deep way does what radio has always sought to do: tell honest, entertaining stories with both humor and heart. In This American Gospel, Ethan Richardson sheds light on the elements of the program that most resonate with the Christian faith, such as the weariness that comes from demand and expectation, and the inspiring power of love and mercy. With playfulness and wit, This American Gospel selects episodes from the show's tenure, and expounds on their potential as parables of the paradoxical and no-less-complicated realities of the Christian message.

Lamb of God New American Gospel

Lamb of God  New American Gospel
Author: Chris Adler
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2011-01-22
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9780557689750

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The Making of the album New American Gospel by Lamb of God. Written by the bands drummer, Chris Adler, this book is a first hand look into the formation and the history of this world renowned metal band through the recording process of their landmark first album. The book also includes drum tablature, transcribed by Chris, himself, to ensure accuracy for students and teachers alike. The drum tabs are intended for all levels of drum players. A tab key and methodology is included for new players and non-music reading students. The author reflects not only on the many difficult hurdles involved in writing and recording the album, but also breaks the album down song by song and gives his perspective on how each came to be. The stories included share a candid and unexpected insight into the creation of this historic album. Chris details the artistic difficulties and disappointments, the successes and the critical decisions made along the way that helped build the bands prolific career.