[PDF] Communities Of The Converted eBook

Author : Catherine Wanner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0801461901

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After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted Soviet evangelicals gave way to a charismatic embrace of ecstatic experience, replete with a belief in faith healing. Catherine Wanner's historically informed ethnography, the first book on evangelism in the former Soviet Union, shows how once-marginal Ukrainian evangelical communities are now thriving and growing in social and political prominence. Many Soviet evangelicals relocated to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union, expanding the spectrum of evangelicalism in the United States and altering religious life in Ukraine. Migration has created new transnational evangelical communities that are now asserting a new public role for religion in the resolution of numerous social problems. Hundreds of American evangelical missionaries have engaged in "church planting" in Ukraine, which is today home to some of the most active and robust evangelical communities in all of Europe. Thanks to massive assistance from the West, Ukraine has become a hub for clerical and missionary training in Eurasia. Many Ukrainians travel as missionaries to Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union. In revealing the phenomenal transformation of religious life in a land once thought to be militantly godless, Wanner shows how formerly socialist countries experience evangelical revival. Communities of the Converted engages issues of migration, morality, secularization, and global evangelism, while highlighting how they have been shaped by socialism. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org. The open access edition is available at Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Author : Professor Emily Walker Heady
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472404734

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Because Victorian authors rarely discuss conversion experiences separately from the modes in which they are narrated, Emily Walker Heady argues that the conversion narrative became, in effect, a form of literary criticism. Literary conventions, in turn, served the reciprocal function as a means of discussing the nature of what Heady calls the 'heart-change.' Heady reads canonical authors such as John Henry Newman, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde through a dual lens of literary history and post-liberal theology. As Heady shows, these authors question the ability of realism to contain the emotionally freighted and often jarring plot lines that characterize conversion. In so doing, they explore the limits of narrative form while also shedding light on the ways in which conversion narratives address and often disrupt the reading communities in which they occur.

Author : Emily Walker Heady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317002229

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Because Victorian authors rarely discuss conversion experiences separately from the modes in which they are narrated, Emily Walker Heady argues that the conversion narrative became, in effect, a form of literary criticism. Literary conventions, in turn, served the reciprocal function as a means of discussing the nature of what Heady calls the 'heart-change.' Heady reads canonical authors such as John Henry Newman, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde through a dual lens of literary history and post-liberal theology. As Heady shows, these authors question the ability of realism to contain the emotionally freighted and often jarring plot lines that characterize conversion. In so doing, they explore the limits of narrative form while also shedding light on the ways in which conversion narratives address and often disrupt the reading communities in which they occur.

Author : Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 082329952X

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How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin’s New Russia. Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans who look to Russian religion and politics for answers to western secularism and the loss of traditional family values in the face of accelerating progressivism. This ethnography highlights an intentional community of converts who are exemplary of much broader networks of Russian Orthodox converts in the US. These converts sought and found a conservatism more authentic than Christian American Republicanism and a nationalism unburdened by the broken promises of American exceptionalism. Ultimately, both converts and the Church that welcomes them deploy the subversive act of adopting the ideals and faith of a foreign power for larger, transnational political ends. Offering insights into this rarely considered religious world, including its far-right political roots that nourish the embrace of Putin’s Russia, this ethnography shows how religious conversion is tied to larger issues of social politics, allegiance, (anti)democracy, and citizenship. These conversions offer us a window onto both global politics and foreign affairs, while also allowing us to see how particular communities in the U.S. are grappling with social transformations in the twenty-first century. With broad implications for our understanding of both conservative Christianity and right-wing politics, as well as contemporary Russian-American relations, this book provides insight in the growing constellations of far-right conservatism. While Russian Orthodox converts are more likely to form the moral minority rather than the moral majority, they are an important gauge for understanding the powerful philosophical shifts occurring in the current political climate in the United States and what they might mean for the future of American values, ideals, and democracy.

Author : David Jezierski
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category :
ISBN : 9780578647753

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The Conversion is a story of one man's return to the faith. It recounts his story from a Catholic upbringing, his falling away and his struggles for years with sin in a fallen world that encourages it, and his return from the brink. It also deals with his journey through various denominations and communities of believers and the challenges that conversion & true commitment to the Lord is certain to bring.

Author : Ion Visa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2020-09-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 303055757X

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This book presents novel findings concerning the systems, materials and processes used in solar energy conversion in communities. It begins with the core resource – solar radiation – and discusses the restrictions on the wide-scale implementation of conversion systems imposed by the built environment, as well as potential solutions. The book also describes efficient solar energy conversion in detail, focusing on heat and electricity production in communities and water reuse. Lastly, it analyzes the concept of sustainable communities, presenting examples from around the globe, along with novel approaches to improving their feasibility and affordability. Though chiefly intended for professionals working in the field of sustainability at the community level, the book will also be of interest to researchers, academics and doctoral students.

Author : Tamar Herzig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0674237536

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Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.

Author : Congregation for Clergy
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781784696443

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Outlines for the renewal of parish structures in a more dynamic and missionary direction.

Author : Michael Cowan
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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In Conversation, Risk & Conversion, two of America's acknowledged leaders and most trusted thinkers on the phenomenon of small Christian communities explore their growth, development, and impact in the U.S. over the last decade. Cowan and Lee address issues such as the mission of SCCs and conflict resolution within them. Most importantly, by reflecting on both the internal and public dimensions of SCCs, Conversation, Risk & Conversion offers a cogent social analysis of the Catholic church in the U.S. today.