Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty
Title | Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Alma White |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1995 |
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Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty
Title | Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Alma White |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Anti-Catholicism |
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Feminist Pillar of Fire
Title | Feminist Pillar of Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Susie C. Stanley |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2006-03-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1597523828 |
Feminist,Ó with its modern interpretation, might not be the word Alma White would have chosen, but there is no doubt that this strong and independent woman fought all the definitions of what a woman was supposed to be at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. When women were mostly consigned to the roles of wife and mother--and bitterly opposed as preachers--Alma White developed into a fierce and successful religious leader. A founder of the Pentecostal Union (later renamed the Pillar of Fire), she found biblical affirmation for her role as prophet and preacher. She was larger than life. A brilliant businesswoman, she was one of the first church leaders to embrace technology with the purchase of multiple radio stations. Alma White was one of those great, landmark American characters out of whom the richest of history is made.
Weird N. J.
Title | Weird N. J. PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Moran |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2009-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781402766855 |
Explores haunted places, local legends, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in New Jersey.
Religious Intolerance, America, and the World
Title | Religious Intolerance, America, and the World PDF eBook |
Author | John Corrigan |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2020-04-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 022631393X |
As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here, it’s an expression of a trauma endemic to America’s history, particularly involving our long domestic record of religious conflict and violence. Religious Intolerance, America, and the World spans from Christian colonists’ intolerance of Native Americans and the role of religion in the new republic’s foreign-policy crises to Cold War witch hunts and the persecution complexes that entangle Christians and Muslims today. Corrigan reveals how US churches and institutions have continuously campaigned against intolerance overseas even as they’ve abetted or performed it at home. This selective condemnation of intolerance, he shows, created a legacy of foreign policy interventions promoting religious freedom and human rights that was not reflected within America’s own borders. This timely, captivating book forces America to confront its claims of exceptionalism based on religious liberty—and perhaps begin to break the grotesque cycle of projection and oppression.
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
Title | The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Gordon |
Publisher | Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-10-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1631493701 |
An urgent examination into the revived Klan of the 1920s becomes “required reading” for our time (New York Times Book Review). Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this “second Klan” spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the flood of immigrant “hordes” landing on American shores. “Part cautionary tale, part expose” (Washington Post), The Second Coming of the KKK “illuminates the surprising scope of the movement” (The New Yorker); the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass “Klonvocations” prior to its collapse in 1926—but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. A “must-read” (Salon) for anyone looking to understand the current moment, The Second Coming of the KKK offers “chilling comparisons to the present day” (New York Review of Books).
Threat to Democracy
Title | Threat to Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Gordon |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1445674777 |
By legitimising bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands re-examination today with a more strident, populist and nationalist America.