Suchergebnisse

Rivers of Living Water: Radical Social Behaviors and Religious Innovations on Azusa Street, 1906-1909 /Caroline Bunnell Harris --Funding Fundamentalism: Lyman Stewart, Hard Financing and the Creation of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles /Christina Copland --International Guru as Local Swami: Yogananda and the Religious Culture of Southern California /David J. Neumann --Borderlands Believers: Migrant Laborers and the Growth of Pentecostalism from Los Angeles /Lloyd Barba --Religion and the Urban Civic Landscape: The Case of the Los Angeles County Committee for Church and Community /Mark Wild --A Respectable Militancy: Rev. J. Raymond Henderson & the Civil Rights Struggle in Los Angeles, 1941-1963 /David J. Neumann --The Pentecost Moment: Los Angeles as Global Christian Space in the Late-20th Century /Sean Dempsey --The "Flying Nun" and the "Painting Nun": Gender, Conflict, and Representation in 1960s Los Angeles /Diane Winston --Theosophy and the Realization of Southern California's Divine Destiny /Grace Converse --Redeeming the City: Los Angeles in the Social Imagination of an Urban Social Ministry /Richard Flory and Bradly Nabors --Expanding Never Again: The Cosmopolitan Parochialism of Los Angeles Jewish Mobilization on the Genocide in Darfur /Brie Loskota, Jennifer Thompson and Tobin Belzer --Justice Activism and Latino Spiritualities: Los Angeles as a Post-Colonial Border Space /Helene Slessarev-Jamir --Sustaining Borderlands Traditions in a Latinx Pentecostal Church /Jonathan Calvillo --Aum Shalom: Jews, Gurus and Religious Hybridity in the City of Angels /Amanda J. Lucia and Michael Scott Alexander --Korean Diaspora Churches in Los Angeles: Place Matters /Sung Gun Kim --Japanese Americans and the Birth (and Rebirth) of Buddhism in the City of Angels /Jean-Paul R. deGuzman --The Legacy of Religious Diversity in Southern California /Bruce Phillips.

GenX Religion is the first in-depth collection on this generation's religious experience. The contributors, mostly GenXers themselves, offer both a disciplined methodology and a valuable insider's sensitivity as they examine the differences between GenX religion and ""traditional"" religious avenues

Despite the masses still lining up to enter mega-churches with warehouse-like architecture, casually dressed clergy, and pop Christian music, the ?Post-Boomer? generation?those ranging in age from twenty to forty?is having second thoughts. In this perceptive look at the evolving face of Christianity in contemporary culture, sociologists Richard Flory and Donald E. Miller argue that we are on the verge of another potential revolution in how Christians worship and associate with one another. Just as the formative experiences of Baby Boomers were colored by such things as the war in Vietnam, the

GenX Religion is the first in-depth collection on this generation's religious experience. The contributors, mostly GenXers themselves, offer both a disciplined methodology and a valuable insider's sensitivity as they examine the differences between GenX religion and "traditional" religious avenues, as well as the wide variety to be found in GenX religious expression itself. -- Publisher description