Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Greenwood holds degrees from Hampshire College, Brown University and Meadville-Lombard and is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Minister's Association who has served congregations in Atlanta, Georgia and Watertown, Massachusetts. She has been active in disability advocacy work in the broader community and brought her interest in special needs into subsequent work as a Director of Religious Education. Mark W. Harris is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, currently serving as Minister at the First Parish of Watertown and has previously served as the Director of Information at the Unitarian Universalist Association. He is also adjunct professor at Andover Newton Theological School. He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Unitarian Universalism (2004) and Elite: Uncovering Classism in Unitarian Universalist History (2010). Klappentext An accessible and international look at what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist today. Zusammenfassung This accessible account of what it means to be a Unitarian Universalist examines the church's current relationship to international congregations! particularly in the context of twentieth-century expansion into Asia. This book helps the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Liberal religion and the foundations of the Unitarian and Universalist faiths; 2. The European background; 3. Great Britain; 4. Early America; 5. Unitarians and Universalists in the Republic; 6. A religion for one world; 7. Polity; 8. Theology; 9. Worship; 10. Science and ecology; 11. Architecture, music and the arts; 12. Education, welfare and human rights; 13. Unitarian Universalism in the 21st century.

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• Authors: Andrea Greenwood, Andrea Harris Greenwood, Greenwood Andrea, Mark Greenwood Harris, Mark W. Harris, Mark W. Greenwood Harris, Harris Mark W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521881487
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88148-7
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Introduction to Religion; Introduction to Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; History of Ideas, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, Religion: general, Aspects Of Religion (Non-Christian), Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches, Other non-Christian religions