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The Knights Templars : God's warriors, the devil's bankers / Frank Sanello.

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by Sanello, Frank.
Call Number 271.7913 22
Publication Date 2005
Summary A vivid description of the formation of the Templars as a strict religious-military order, their political and financial power and the legends surrounding them.
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The American Religious Experience : a Concise History.

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by Bridgers, Lynn.
Call Number 200.8996073
Publication Date 2006
Summary The American Religious Experience is an accessible and unique rendition of American religious history. Focusing on Christianity in America, it also integrates the inter-religious, inter-denominational and multi-cultural dimensions of American religious history. The book unfolds consistent tensions between dominant streams of American Christianity and groups relegated to the periphery - groups with roots in visionary traditions, emotionalized religious practice, or ethnic and racial perspectives.
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Ranking faiths : religious stratification in America / James D. Davidson and Ralph E. Pyle.

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by Davidson, James D.
Call Number 306.60973 22
Publication Date 2011
Summary Ranking Faiths: Religious Stratification in America discusses how religion shapes access to power, privilege, and prestige in the U.S., both historically and today. James D. Davidson and Ralph E. Pyle dispel the idea that the U.S. was founded on theprinciple of religious equality for all, documenting how religion has been a factor in the allocation of power from the colonial period through the present. From the time of the earliest settlements in America through today, the book demonstrates that some religious groups have had more access to economic, political, and social rewards than others.
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The West at War.

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by Watson, Bradley C. S.
Call Number 909.09821
Publication Date 2006
Summary In The West at War, Bradley C.S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time-the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the context of the 'war on terror.'
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Red quarter moon : a search for family in the shadow of Stalin / Anne Konrad.

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by Konrad, Anne.
Call Number 289.7470904 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary "Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. An ethno-religious minority, they became special objects of Soviet persecution. Though her parents fled in 1929, many relatives remained in the USSR. Konrad's search for these missing extended family members took place over twenty years and five continents - on muddy roads, lonesome steppes, and in old letters, documents, or secret police archives. Her story emerges as both haunting and inspiring, filled with dramatically different accounts from survivors now scattered across the world. She aligns the voices of her subjects chronologically against the backdrop of Soviet policy, intertwining the historical context of the Terror Years with her own personal quest. Red Quarter Moon is an enthralling journey into the past that offers a unique look at the lives of ordinary families and individuals in the USSR."--Pub. desc.
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Father Augustin Brabant : saviour or scourge? / Jim McDowell.

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by McDowell, Jim, 1934-
Call Number 266.2092 23
Publication Date 2012
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Habits of change : an oral history of American nuns / Carole Garibaldi Rogers.

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by Rogers, Carole G.
Call Number 271.9002273 22
Publication Date 2011
Summary A collection of oral histories of American nuns, capturing their experiences over the past fifty years. Brings together women from more than forty different religious communities, most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II.
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Sacred scripture, sacred war : the Bible and the American Revolution / James P. Byrd.

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by Byrd, James P., 1965-
Call Number 261.873 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary The American colonists who took up arms against the British fought in defense of the 'sacred cause of liberty.' But it was not merely their cause but warfare itself that they believed was sacred. In this book, James P. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the American Revolution.
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Missionary bishop : Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans / Patrick Foley ; with a foreword by Gilbert R. Cruz.

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by Foley, Patrick, 1933-
Call Number 282.092
Publication Date 2013
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My heart's best wishes for you : a biography of Archbishop John Walsh / John P. Comiskey.

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by Comiskey, John P., 1956-
Call Number 282.092 23
Publication Date 2012
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The last segregated hour : the Memphis kneel-ins and the campaign for Southern church desegregation / Stephen R. Haynes.

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by Haynes, Stephen R.
Call Number 277.68190826 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary Throughout the South, the Civil Rights Movement inched along over a period of years, making segregated facilities and discriminatory practices the focus of attention and conflict. In this book, Haynes brings to life a dramatic, yet little studied tactic adopted by protesters in the struggle.
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An historical study of United States religious responses to the Vietnam War : a matter of national morality / Rick L. Nutt ; with a foreword by Randall Balmer.

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by Nutt, Rick.
Call Number 959.70431 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary A historical analysis of the how various American religious groups responded to the Vietnam war, both in support and in opposition.
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American feminism and the birth of New Age spirituality : searching for the higher self, 1875-1915 / Catherine Tumber.

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by Tumber, Catherine.
Call Number 299.93 22
Publication Date 2002
Summary Based largely on research in popular journals, self-help manuals, newspaper accounts, and archival collections, American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality demonstrates that the New Age movement first flourished more than a century ago during the Gilded Age under the mantle of 'New Thought'. Tumber pays close attention to the ways in which feminism became grafted, with varying degrees of success, to emergent forms of liberal culture in the late nineteenth century, and questions the value of the new age movement-then and now-to the pursuit of women's rights and democratic renewal.
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Provence : a Cultural History.

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by Garrett, Martin.
Call Number 944.9
Publication Date 2012
Summary Celebrated by writers from Petrarch to Peter Mayle, Provence's rugged mountains, wild maquis and lavender-filled meadows are world-famous. Historic cities like Arles, Avignon and Aix contain Roman amphitheatres, papal palaces and royal residences, while market towns and picturesque villages maintain age-old traditions of wine producing and agriculture. From the highland towns of Digne and Sisteron to the marshy expanse of the Camargue, Provence encompasses a rich variety of landscapes. Mart ...
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The Public Universal Friend : Jemima Wilkinson and religious enthusiasm in revolutionary America / Paul B. Moyer.

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by Moyer, Paul Benjamin, 1970- author.
Call Number 289.9 23
Publication Date 2015
Summary "In The Public Universal Friend, Paul B. Moyer tells the story of Wilkinson and her remarkable church, the Society of Universal Friends. Wilkinson's message was a simple one: humankind stood on the brink of the Apocalypse, but salvation was available to all who accepted God's grace and the authority of his prophet: the Public Universal Friend. Wilkinson preached widely in southern New England and Pennsylvania, attracted hundreds of devoted followers, formed them into a religious sect, and, by the late 1780s, had led her converts to the backcountry of the newly formed United States, where they established a religious community near present-day Penn Yan, New York. Even this remote spot did not provide a safe haven for Wilkinson and her followers as they awaited the Millennium. Disputes from within and without dogged the sect, and many disciples drifted away or turned against the Friend. After Wilkinson's "second" and final death in 1819, the Society rapidly fell into decline and, by the mid-nineteenth century, ceased to exist. The prophet's ministry spanned the American Revolution and shaped the nation's religious landscape during the unquiet interlude between the first and second Great Awakenings."--Publisher's description.
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The trial of Jan Hus : medieval heresy and criminal procedure / Thomas A. Fudge.

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by Fudge, Thomas A., author.
Call Number 284.3 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary Thomas A. Fudge offers an in-depth examination of the indictment, relevant canon law, and questions of procedural legality concerning Jan Hus and the Holy See.
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The gods of Prophetstown : the Battle of Tippecanoe and the holy war for the American frontier / Adam Jortner.

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by Jortner, Adam Joseph.
Call Number 973.5 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary It began with an eclipse. In 1806, the Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa ("The Open Door") declared himself to be in direct contact with the Master of Life, and therefore, the supreme religious authority for all Native Americans. Those who disbelieved him, he warned, "would see darkness come over the sun." William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana Territory and future American president, scoffed at Tenskwatawa. If he was truly a prophet, Harrison taunted, let him perform a miracle. And Tenskwatawa did just that, making the sun go dark at midday. In The Gods of Prophetstown.
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