Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The story of Marian devotion as we might recognize it begins in A.D. 431 in the Greek city of Ephesus. As Pelikan points out, the scenes featuring Mary in the New Testament "could all be printed out on a few pages," and the early church's emphasis on her seems...
That's a sentiment echoed in the U.S. by postdenominational Protestantism, a religious movement that links thousands of U.S. churches in informal networks outside the boundaries of mainline Protestant or evangelical denominations. The churches fill their services with rock 'n' roll, recovery counseling and a nonjudgmental approach to a wide range of life-styles. The movement has been making increasing use of computer communications technologies. Says University of Southern California sociologist Donald Miller, who has followed the rapid growth of postdenominational churches: "There's definitely a congruence between these technologies and the outlook of these churches...
When technology cuts the cost of spreading the word, strange things happen. Potentates grow insecure and marginal dissenters feel their oats. Monoliths splinter and the splinter groups splinter again. (There are now hundreds of Protestant denominations.) The effect is hardly confined to religions; the era of computerized mass mail and...
Dauber seems to think that arrogance and education are unique to boarding school history. Has he forgotten that at one time Harvard University was only for the wealthy, Protestant, white, upper-class Massachusetts elite? Indeed, for most of Harvard's history, from its founding through the the 1950s, the "spoiled...
BORN: Sept. 7, 1948, Jackson EDUCATION: U of Mississippi, B.A., 1970, J.D., 1972 FAMILY: Wife, Cyndi; three children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Army, 1973-78. OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. Attorney, 1991-93; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1961, Cordova 38088. Tel.: 901-753-6348