By Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

In a publication that highlights the life and variety of Amish groups in manhattan kingdom, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner attracts on twenty-five years of remark, participation, interviews, and archival study to stress the contribution of the Amish to the state's wealthy cultural heritage.

While the Amish settlements in Pennsylvania and Ohio are the world over recognized, the Amish inhabitants in long island, the results of inner migration from these extra demonstrated settlements, is extra fragmentary and no more seen to all yet their nearest non-Amish friends. all the Amish at present residing in long island are post–World battle II migrants from issues to the south and west. Many got here looking reasonable land, others due to schism of their domestic communities.

The outdated Order Amish of recent York are relative rookies who, whereas representing an outdated or undeniable lifestyle, are bringing switch to the country. in order that readers can greater comprehend the place the Amish come from and their dating to different Christian teams, long island Amish strains the origins of the Amish within the non secular war of words and political upheaval of the Protestant Reformation and describes modern Amish existence and non secular practices.

Johnson-Weiner welcomes readers into the lives of Amish households in numerous areas of recent York nation, together with the oldest big apple Amish group, the payment within the Conewango Valley, and the various settlements of the Mohawk Valley and the St. Lawrence River Valley. The congregations in those areas variety from the main conservative to the main revolutionary. Johnson-Weiner unearths how the Amish particularly areas of recent York observe their middle values in several methods; those diversifications form not just their adjustment to new environments but in addition the ways that townships and counties accommodate―and frequently gain from―the presence of those thriving religion communities.

By Leo Driedger

The method of modernization levied a dramatic influence at the mode and elegance of Mennonite peacemaking as proven during this pathbreaking paintings by means of Leo Driedger and Donald B. Kraybill. As Mennonites have been replacing plows for professions within the Nineteen Fifties, theological "brokers" have been shaping the transformation of Mennonite peace convictions.

By Robert Aleksander Maryks, Jonathan Wright M D

In Jesuit Survival and Restoration top students from around the globe speak about the main dramatic occasion within the Society of Jesus's heritage. The order was once suppressed through papal command in 1773 and for the following 41 years ex-Jesuits endeavoured to maintain the Ignatian spirit alive and labored in the direction of the order's recovery. while this objective was once completed in 1814 the Society entered one in every of its such a lot dynamic yet eras. The contributions within the quantity hint this tale in a world standpoint, taking a look at advancements in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

By Johannes Von Damaskos

A protracted occidental culture has looked the Greek monastic romance Barlaam and Josaphat because the paintings of John Damascene, and the 1st severe version of the paintings seems to be now within the corpus of his writings. on the contrary - as grew to become obvious throughout the enhancing - it's a paintings from the past due tenth century, and the writer is nearly definitely the Georgian Abbot Euthymios from Mount Athos. the tale is going again to the lifetime of Buddha and is set the son of an Indian king, who, after guide by way of a religious ascetic, himself turns into a hermit; this Greek model is thought of as the main realized remedy of fabric which has passed through many global religions (Buddhism, Manichaeism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity).

By Robert S. Wicks, Fred R. Foister

"Junius and Joseph examines Joseph Smith's approximately forgotten [1844] presidential bid, the occasions major as much as his assassination on June 27, 1844, and the tangled aftermath of the tragic incident. It . . . establishes that Joseph Smith's homicide, instead of being the lethal end result of a spontaneous mob rebellion, was once in reality a gently deliberate military-style execution. it truly is now attainable to spot the various key members engaged in making plans his assassination in addition to those that took half within the attack on Carthage prison. And moment, this examine provides incontrovertible facts that the hassle to take away the Mormon chief from energy and impression prolonged way past Hancock County [Illinois] (and integrated fashionable Whig politicians in addition to the Democratic governor of the state), thereby remodeling his demise from an impulsive act by way of neighborhood vigilantes right into a political assassination sanctioned by means of probably the most strong males in Illinois. The situations surrounding Joseph Smith's loss of life additionally serve to focus on the customarily unrecognized fact complete realizing of early Mormon heritage should be won simply while thought of within the context of occasions happening in American society as a whole." starting with this provocative thesis, Wicks and Foister interact in an intensive reexamination of Joseph Smith's 1844 presidential candidacy, its political context and implications, and its possible connection to his homicide. whereas their paintings asserts arguable conclusions approximately what and who have been at the back of that homicide, its import extends extra because it presents remarkable, particular graphics of political Mormonism, politics in 1844 Illinois and the Midwest, the net of connections and personalities that associated the 2, and the occasions of June 27.

By Harry Loewen

Historical figures come to existence in those tales that lie in the back of the extra formal money owed of Anabaptist/Mennonite historical past and lifestyles from the 1500s during the current. Flight, migration, intrigue, functional jokes, spats over wigs, shunning, kidnapping, combating Indians, romance-all are a part of this mosaic of Anabaptist/Mennonite historical past. (224pp. illus. bring in Press, 1993.)

By Melvyn Hammarberg

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has 6 million individuals within the usa this present day (and thirteen million worldwide). but, whereas there was wide learn of Mormon heritage, relatively little scholarly consciousness has been paid to modern Mormons. the simplest sociological research of Mormon lifestyles, Thomas O'Dea's The Mormons, is now over fifty years outdated. what's it prefer to be a Mormon in the United States this day? Melvyn Hammarberg makes an attempt to respond to this query by means of providing an ethnography of up to date Mormons. In The Mormon Quest for Glory, Hammarberg examines Mormon heritage, rituals, social association, family members connections, gender roles, creative traditions, use of media, and missionary paintings. He writes as a sympathetic outsider who has studied Mormon existence for many years, and strives to provide an explanation for the spiritual global of the Latter-day Saints in the course of the lens in their personal non secular realizing. Drawing on a survey, player statement, interviews, concentration teams, attendance at non secular gatherings, diaries, church periodicals, lesson manuals, and different church literature, Hammarberg goals to give a finished photograph of the spiritual global of the Latter-day Saints.

By John D. Zizioulas, Luke Ben Tallon

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By [compiled by] St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth; G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, Kallistos Ware (transl., ed.)

By Michael Prokurat, Michael D. Peterson, Alexander Golitzin

Of the 3 significant branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the least identified and such a lot misunderstood. The A to Z of the Orthodox Church offers scholars, researchers, and experts with a table encyclopedia of the theology and theologians, saints, sinners, locations and occasions of the japanese Church. millennia of the faith are surveyed in over concise entries, concentrating totally on the final one hundred fifty years. comprises an summary of the early Church during the Byzantine and Russian Empires, into the current multinational Orthodox presence within the ecumenical stream. some of the common entries can't be came across somewhere else in English, and the great compilation of biographies of nineteenth- and 20th-century Orthodox theologians (American, Russian, Greek, and lots of different nationalities) is released the following for the 1st time. This publication contains a specific 4,000-year chronology, illustrations, huge bibliography, and an appendix directory the present canonical...