This book, first published in 1975, examines how utopian sects seek to establish and promulgate radically distinctive forms of society according to what they claim to be God's blueprint. Rooted in the sociology of religion, this study presents an analysis of three sects: the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Bruderhof.
This book, first published in 1975, examines how utopian sects seek to establish and promulgate radically distinctive forms of society according to what they claim to be God¿s blueprint. Rooted in the sociology of religion, this study presents an analysis of three sects: the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Bruderhof.
Excerpt from Legal and Historical Proof of the Resurrection of the Dead: With an Examination of the Evidence in the New TestamentCivilization would make little prog ress if each succeeding age, disregard ing all that had already been aecom plished, should attempt to establish for itself first and fundamental principles in the various branches of learning. These must, generally, be accepted by the ordinary student as established, and here educa...
Excerpt from Legal and Historical Proof of the Resurrection of the Dead: With an Examination of the Evidence in the New TestamentCivilization would make little prog ress if each succeeding age, disregard ing all that had already been aecom plished, should attempt to establish for itself first and fundamental principles in the various branches of learning. These must, generally, be accepted by the ordinary student as established, and here educa...
A practical handbook containing advice, exercises and information. Beginning with a definition of what makes poetry, the author goes on to describe the different forms, how and what to start writing, finding an audience, and getting published.
Intelligent and erudite but above all fun, John Whitworth's verse takes no prisoners. Through ballades and pantoums, anagrams and acrostics, sonnets, classical elegies and rhyming haiku, he will show you what poems can do.
