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Religious History
Non-fiction about the history of religion.
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APOLLYON is an alternative and credible alternative drama about the foundation and emergence of Christianity.
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― APOLLYON
― APOLLYON
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The evangelicals won in the narrower competition for the loyalties of the minority of Americans who now identify with the Republican Party. Evangelicalism created a safe harbor for white people who wanted to be counted as Christians without having to accept what ecumenical leaders said were the social obligations demanded by the gospel, especially the imperative to extend civil equality to nonwhites. A popular theory of modern religious history holds that evangelical churches flourished because
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― Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular
― Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular
This is a group for all those with an interest in Early Modern history (roughly from 1500-1800, …more
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