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An illustrated history reflects the structures, people, and movements of religious America with a region-by-region tour of notable country churches that examines basic architecture and the beliefs of the people who attended them.
"The country church tells us who we are. In doing so, it provides a sense of security, especially in times of crisis," says Pulitzer-Prize nominee Morgan in his Introduction to this sweeping, gorgeously photographed look at rural America's most enchanting houses of worship.
Country churches are humble yet much-loved structures that for centuries have played a central role in the daily lives of people rural communities the world over. Country Churches is a photographic and historical tour of country churches throughout the Christian world. From Britain's simple stone churches to the austere wood-framed houses of worship of New England, to the ornate stylings of Eastern Europe's Byzantine churches, the nature and history of country churches is beautifully revealed on each page of this stunning volume.
Through fascinating and sometimes even breathtaking photographs, this book dramatically presents a representative sample of the wide variety of religious buildings, all grouped together under the generic title of "churches." Arranged in alphabetical order by state.
No sight is more evocative than a small village where an embattled tower stands proudly or a great sweep of landscape from which an elegant spire soars above trees and meadows. Celebrate the English church in all its diversity--the different architecture, regional styles, structural materials, personalities, and settings. Each example combines familiarity with the pleasure of discovery.
The true story of the events that took place across America as a successful businessman and his wife spent most of their weekends since 1998 hanging out in the lawns, parking lots and cemeteries of America's churches dressed, not as upstanding citizens, but rather, in the tattered and smelly clothes of the homeless. It is in this guise that they experienced the shocking response of today's Sunday morning, church-going crowds to people to people who "don't look like they do."
In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.
When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had not been an active member of a church community for some years, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she longed to recapture in her own life. So she set out on a pilgrimage to visit a different church every Sunday for one year-a journey that would take her through the broad spectrum of contemporary Protestant Christianity practiced in this country. From a rousing Easter Baptist service in Harlem, to Colorado's Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame for a sing-along at the Cowboy Church; from a roofless Episcopal church in Hawaii, to a storefront African orthodox church where jazz legend John Coltrane is considered a bona fide saint; from the largest church in the country to a small-town church packed for a Sunday school class taught by Jimmy Carter, Shea toured more than thirty states in search of the meaning of Christian faith to the many who practice it. The result, Sundays in America, is an essential guide for those seeking a new house for their worship as well as a colorful road trip for the armchair explorer.
Forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of the state. Nearly three hundred stunning color photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries.
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since the 1930s. Drawing on interviews with more than 1,800 black clergy in both urban and rural settings, combined with a comprehensive historical overview of seven mainline black denominations, C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya present an analysis of the Black Church as it relates to the history of African Americans and to contemporary black culture. In examining both the internal structure of the Church and the reactions of the Church to external, societal changes, the authors provide important insights into the Church’s relationship to politics, economics, women, youth, and music. Among other topics, Lincoln and Mamiya discuss the attitude of the clergy toward women pastors, the reaction of the Church to the civil rights movement, the attempts of the Church to involve young people, the impact of the black consciousness movement and Black Liberation Theology and clergy, and trends that will define the Black Church well into the next century. This study is complete with a comprehensive bibliography of literature on the black experience in religion. Funding for the ten-year survey was made possible by the Lilly Endowment and the Ford Foundation.