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For millions of conservative Christians, America is their kingdom--a land set apart, a nation uniquely blessed, a people in special covenant with God. This love of country, however, has given way to right-wing nationalist fervor, a reckless blood-and-soil idolatry that trivializes the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Alberta retraces the arc of the modern evangelical movement, placing political and cultural inflection points in the context of church teachings and traditions, explaining how Donald Trump's presidency and the COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated historical trends that long pointed toward disaster. Reporting from half-empty sanctuaries and standing-room-only convention halls across the country, the author documents a growing fracture inside American Christianity and journeys with readers through this strange new environment in which loving your enemies is "woke" and owning the libs is the answer to WWJD. Accessing the highest echelons of the American evangelical movement, Alberta investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised, and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom. He highlights the battles evangelicals are fighting--and the weapons of their warfare--to demonstrate the disconnect from scripture: Contra the dictates of the New Testament, today's believers are struggling mightily against flesh and blood, eyes fixed on the here and now, desperate for a power that is frivolous and fleeting. Lingering at the intersection of real cultural displacement and perceived religious persecution, Alberta portrays a rapidly secularizing America that has come to distrust the evangelical church, and weaves together present-day narratives of individual pastors and their churches as they confront the twin challenges of lost status and diminished standing.

Evangelicalism --- Christianity and politics --- Christianity and culture --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State. --- RELIGION / Christian Ministry. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion. --- Christianity and politics. --- History. --- United States --- Church history.

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Pastoral and devotional literature flourished thoughout the Middle Ages, and its growth and transmutations form the focus of this collection. The reading and devotional use of texts by women and solitaries is also considered. The essays therefore form an appropriate tribute to the work of Bella Millett.

Pastoral theology --- Pastoral care --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- History --- History and criticism. --- Care of souls --- Cure of souls --- Church work --- Pastoral counseling --- Ministry --- Pastoral office and work --- Theology, Pastoral --- Bella Millett. --- Essays. --- Medieval. --- Pastoral Care. --- Vernacular Spirituality.

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Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix to which the Church belonged. Missionary movements to Latin America coincided with visions for a progressive, radically transformative church.Landscapes of Liberation expands scholarship into liberation theology’s reception in Andean America and critically examines the interplay of the Catholic Church as a global institution with parishes as local actors. Through source material from both sides of the Atlantic, this book charts how a transnational network of pastoral agents and laypeople in Peru’s southern highlands claimed mission and development as intertwined tenets of spiritual and social life throughout three decades of agrarian reform, activism, and social conflict. Ultimately, this book reveals how transformative theories for rural development yield contingent transformations: concrete change, yet contested liberation.

RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions --- Peru --- Politics and government --- 266.2 --- 27 <08> --- 27 <08> Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 27 <08> Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 266.2 Missionering --- Missionering --- 266 <85> --- 266 <85> Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Peru --- 266 <85> Missions. Evangelisation--Peru --- Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Peru --- Missions. Evangelisation--Peru

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"The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty years.Have progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice? In Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice, Robert Wuthnow shows that, contrary to activists' accusations of complacency, Black and White faith leaders have fought steadily for racial and social justice since the end of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Wuthnow introduces us to the communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have worked on fair housing, school desegregation, affirmative action, criminal justice, and other issues over many years. Often overshadowed by the Religious Right, these progressive faith-based racial justice advocates kept up the fight even as media attention shifted elsewhere.Wuthnow tells the stories of the faith-based affordable housing project in St. Louis that sparked controversy in the Nixon White House; a pastor's lawsuit in North Carolina that launched the nation's first busing program for school desegregation; the faith outreach initiative for Barack Obama's presidential campaign; and church-mobilized protests following the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, and George Floyd. Drawing on extensive materials on denominations, journalists, and social scientists, Wuthnow offers a detailed and frank discussion of both the achievements and the limitations of faith leaders' roles. He focuses on different issues that emerged at different times, tracing the efforts of Black and White faith leaders who sometimes worked cooperatively and more often tackled problems in complementary ways. Taken together, these stories provide lessons in what faith communities have done and how they can better advocate for racial justice in the years ahead"-- "The work for racial justice in the U.S. in the decades after the high-water mark of the Civil Rights movement is a significant yet too often neglected chapter of American religious history- a chapter overshadowed to a great extent by the Religious Right, which has gotten much more scholarly attention. For decades, little known faith leaders across the U.S. did what they could to create fair and affordable housing, contribute to community development, advocate for affirmative action, protest racial profiling, and mobilize voter registration. Many of these leaders were affiliated with mainstream majority-White Protestant denominations, Black denominations, Roman Catholic groups, and Jewish organizations. Many of the Protestants were African Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, or United Church of Christ. Some were Brethren, Disciples of Christ, Mennonites, Moravians, or Quakers. The leaders often formed coalitions of faith-based and nonsectarian organizations. The focus of Wuthnow's new book will be on local, unsung struggles for racial justice-- happening in response to local events, led by local clergy, and drawing on local networks. This was advocacy work that wasn't covered by national or international news media, and the achievements of these struggles were often small (rather than sweeping and dramatic). These struggles will be covered in a series of thematic chapters; one chapter on concerted action by faith groups & leaders in particular U.S. communities for fair, affordable, desegregated housing; another chapter on affirmative action and busing; a third on efforts to advocate for policy reform and for the end of racial profiling, etc. Wuthnow will discuss the systematic racism that these racial justice advocates confronted -- racism that's thoroughly ingrained in institutional structures, and that has proven to be impervious to strategies that involve personal approaches to sensitizing hearts and minds to the evils of racism. Wuthnow argues that this historical record provides lessons for contemporary racial justice warriors working either within or outside of faith communities. Progressive religious groups have been most effective in supporting civil rights efforts whey they're focused on very specific tasks -- e.g. voting rights, gerrymandering, discrimination in hiring, inequality on the job, and lack of access to equal opportunity in education -- and when they organize strategically, form coalitions, use the right kinds of knowledge and expertise, and adapt to new situations"--

Civil rights leaders --- Religious leaders --- Racial justice --- Civil rights --- Religious aspects --- United States. --- Affirmative Action. --- Affordable Housing. --- Black justice. --- Black. --- Busing. --- Churches. --- Civil Rights. --- Community Development. --- Congregations. --- Criminal Justice. --- Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice: What Has Worked, What Hasn't, and Lessons We Can Learn. --- Faith. --- Justice. --- Multiracial Ministry. --- Obama. --- Princeton University Press. --- Princeton. --- Race. --- Racial Justice. --- Religion. --- Robert Wuthnow. --- Sociology. --- Voting Rights. --- achieving racial justice. --- civil rights movement. --- faith collaboration. --- preachers.

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"Lions lead intricate lives. They hunt together, raise cubs together, and defend territories together. But though life at the top of the food chain may mean that lions have little to fear from other species - they can easily dominate every other carnivore in their midst - they still must constantly safeguard against the threat posed by other lions. Each day is dominated by the demands of raising a family while protecting themselves against enemies endowed with the same strengths and skills. Biologist Craig Packer has spent his career studying the African lion, one of the most fascinating animals on earth. In this book, he synthesizes his decades of research in the Serengeti into an up-to-date portrait of the African lion, and reveals how he and his colleagues have come to understand this creature's behavior, ecology, and conservation. Packer opens the book by providing readers with background on lions' territory, daily behavior, lifespan, and physiology. From there he delves more deeply into lion society, illustrating the complexity of lion life from cub rearing and foraging to competition with other lions. In the final chapters, Packer zooms out to summarize what is known about lion ecological abundance and distribution as well as their conservation status. Not surprisingly, lions are increasingly threatened; however, Packer ends his book on a hopeful note, pointing to programs that are successfully protecting lion populations"--

Lion --- Behavior --- Africa, East. --- Aggression. --- Anecdote. --- Aunt. --- Autopsy. --- Bonobo. --- Canine distemper. --- Carnivore. --- Cattle. --- Colostrum. --- Cure. --- Digestion. --- Disease. --- Drainage. --- Drip irrigation. --- Dry season. --- Eastern Plains. --- Ecosystem. --- Estate map. --- Evolution. --- Extended family. --- Female. --- Fertilizer. --- Ficus. --- Food chain. --- Food web. --- Food. --- Game reserve. --- Giraffe. --- Grassland. --- Green Revolution. --- Herbivore. --- Herd immunity. --- Host (biology). --- Human behavior. --- Hwange National Park. --- Hyena. --- Impala. --- Indian Ocean. --- Indication (medicine). --- Infant mortality. --- Infanticide. --- Kinship. --- KwaZulu-Natal. --- Lake Victoria. --- Light aircraft. --- Lincoln Park Zoo. --- Livestock. --- Long Term. --- Maasai Mara. --- Man-eater. --- Millennium Development Goals. --- Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. --- Morbillivirus. --- Mortality rate. --- Natural selection. --- Newspaper. --- Ngorongoro Conservation Area. --- Offal. --- Okavango Delta. --- Organism. --- Oxytocin. --- Pastoralism. --- Pasture. --- Pathogen. --- Pathogenesis. --- Pathology. --- Population density. --- Population model. --- Population size. --- Practical Action. --- Predation. --- Primary source. --- RNA virus. --- Rain shadow. --- Rain. --- Reproduction. --- Reproductive success. --- Result. --- Serengeti. --- Smilodon. --- Social group. --- Sociality. --- Soil. --- South Africa. --- Surface water. --- Tanzania. --- Thomson's gazelle. --- Tick-borne disease. --- Total revenue. --- Trachea. --- Transmitter. --- Vegetation. --- Very high frequency. --- Vulnerability. --- Weather. --- Wet season. --- Wildebeest. --- Wildlife. --- World Bank. --- Year.