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Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. The Origins of Evangelical Management Culture -- 2. The Church Growth Movement and the Birth of Modern Metricspirituality -- 3. Cybernetics, Computers and Christ: How Systems Theory Helped Found the Modern Religious Right -- 4. Networked Churches and the Rise of Church Toyota -- 5. The Christian Right's Technological Infrastructure -- 6. The Evangelical Web -- Conclusion: Managing the Future -- Glossary -- Chapter Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

In the evangelical community, a variety of alternative mental health treatments--deliverance/exorcism, biblical counseling, reparative therapy and many others--have been proposed for the treatment of mentally ill, female and LGBT evangelicals. This book traces the history of these methods, focusing on the major proponents of each therapeutic system while also examining mainstream evangelical psychology. The author concludes that in the majority of cases mental disorders are blamed on two main issues--sin and demonic possession/oppression--and that as a result some communities have become a men

More people die by suicide each year than by homicide, wars, and terrorist attacks combined. Witnesses and survivors are left perplexed and troubled. Doctors, clinical psychologists, and social workers try to deal with it through their professional routines; sociologists and psychiatrists attempt to provide theoretical explanations of it.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays assembles historians, health economists, anthropologists, and sociologists, who examine the history of suicide from a variety of approaches to provide crucial insight into how suicide differs across nations, cultures, and time periods

Professor Weaver explains how we need to look at how the Rule Against Perpetuities is taught and how it may be taught more successfully. The Rule presents its greatest challenge to those who should know it best-law professors. If law professors can teach the Rule to the future judges, lawyers, and legislators who deal daily with the Rule, then mistakes will not be made and reform will succeed. In this essay, Professor Weaver presents a method that he has developed for teaching the Rule. While some of it is no more than a general application of normal law school methods, Professor Weaver thinks it sufficiently different-because it treats the Rule-to deserve full exposition.