Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations : in two parts, to which ae now first added, paryers and religious meditations, by David Hartley. To the first part are prefixed A sketch of the life and character ... of the author.

Mode of access: Internet.

Life and religious opinions and experience of Madame de La Mothe Guyon:

Mode of access: Internet.

The works, moral and religious, of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt. ... The whole now first collected and revised. To which are prefixed his life and death,

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History of flagellation among different nations : a narrative of the strange customs and cruelties of the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, etc., with an account of its practice among the early Christians as a religious stimulant and corrector of morals; also anecdotes of remarkable cases of flogging and of celebrated flagellants; with numerous illustrations.

"The present brief treatise is a reprint of a book published some years ago ... The work is anonymous, both as to author and publisher. According to the unknown author's preface the facts are taken from "Historia flagellantium," by the Abbe Jacobus Boileau ... "--P. 5.

Apollonius of Tyana, the philosopher-reformer of the first century, A.D.; a critical study of the only existing record of his life, with some account of the war of opinion concerning him, and an introduction on the religious associations and brotherhoods of the times and the possible influence of Indian thought on Greece ...

"Bibliographical notes": p.156-159.

The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee, a colored lady, : giving an account of the call to preach the gospel. Revised and corrected from the original mss., /

Compare, Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, entry 5755.

From Wovoka to Wounded Knee: deprivation of Sioux traditional life and the massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890

The purpose of this thesis is to explore deprivation experienced by the nineteenth century Sioux who suffered the loss of traditional lands, economic independence, buffalo, tribal customs, and religion. After years of reservation life, starvation, and deprivation at the hands of the U.S. government, white settlers, and reservation agents, the Sioux anxiously sought out a Paiute Indian Messiah named Wovoka whose message of a new Indian world spread rapidly throughout the Dakotas. The use of extensive historical and religious documents, as well as primary sources, will argue that the extent of desperation experienced by the Sioux drove them to accept the Ghost Dance as a substitute for the Sun Dance, the center of their traditional religious complex. With its hope of the resurrection of dead Indians, return of the buffalo, and renewal of the earth, it was immediately adopted leading ultimately to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 and the passing of Wovoka's religion into history.

Family religious involvement and the quality of family relationships for early adolescents

Examination of association between the religious involvement (number of family religious activities, parental worship service attendance and parental prayer) and quality of family relationships with results indicating that religiously involved families of adolescents (ages 12-14) living in the U.S. are more like to have stronger family relationships than families that are not religiously active.

Family religious involvement and the quality of family relationships for early adolescents

Examination of association between the religious involvement (number of family religious activities, parental worship service attendance and parental prayer) and quality of family relationships with results indicating that religiously involved families of adolescents (ages 12-14) living in the U.S. are more like to have stronger family relationships than families that are not religiously active.

The nonformative elements of religious life: questioning the ‘sociology of spirituality’ paradigm

Sociological assertions of religious vitality in Euro-American societies have developed a paradigm of spirituality in which, following earlier studies of the New Age, a distinction is drawn between external authority and self-authority. Methodologically and theoretically problematic, this paradigm diverts attention from people’s social practices and interactions, especially in relation to multiple religious authorities. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork with an English religious network, and building upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper considers situations in which multiple authorities tend to relativize each other. Conceptualizing this in terms of nonformativeness - the lack of authorities’ abilities formatively to shape religious identity, habitus, and competition over religious capital - a new understanding of individual secularization emerges that questions assertions of vitality.