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Antioch Rock Hill Membership Membership Records, Antioch United Methodist Church, Rock Hill

Methodist Local Church Records

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Antioch Conway Membership Records, Antioch United Methodist Church, Conway

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Andrew Chapel Membership Record Book, Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church, Orangeburg

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Concordia Seminary Magazine Summer 2024, Vicki Biggs

Concordia Seminary Magazine

Joy Beyond Measure

Organizing And The Revitalization Of American Catholicism, Richard L. Wood

Sociology Faculty and Staff Publications

American Catholicism today struggles to sustain its longtime character as a truly “public religion”—that is, a religious tradition with a vital presence within the public sphere in the US. Reinvigorating Catholicism in the US will require both internal renewal and new approaches to public life, both of which will require continuity with the deep tradition and significant reorientation of ecclesial dynamics. This paper argues that specific, faith-based community-organizing practices can help renew the public voice of Catholicism. In adopting such practices and inflecting them through Catholic commitment to theologically coherent processes of leadership formation, American Catholicism can reinvigorate parish life …

Interfaith Teaching And Preaching In West Virginia, Robert Ellison

English Faculty Research

I propose to discuss two assignments I used in “Religion and the Sermon in Appalachia,” an Honors seminar I taught in Fall 2023. The first belongs to the “teaching” aspect of my title. In the summer of 2020, the Charleston-based Islamic Association of West Virginia published a four-part video series entitled “Understanding Christianity” on its YouTube channel. In a total running time of approximately three hours, Imam Nasir Abdussalam gives an Islamic perspective (not necessarily the Islamic perspective) on “Christian History,” “Paul & the Original Christians,” “The Early Church & Sectarianism,” and “American Culture.”

On the “preaching” side, we discussed …

Walnut Grove Charge Conference 2017-22, Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Roebuck

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Walnut Grove Membership Records, Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Roebuck

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

A History Of Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Second Volume, With Genealogies Of Local Families, Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Roebuck

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Wayne Georgetown Membership Records, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Wayne Georgetown History, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Wesley Chapel Union Church Council Minutes 2012-13, Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, Union

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Wayne Georgetown Property Records, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Wayne Georgetown Church Council Minutes 2003-05, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Wesley Chapel Union Property Records, Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, Union

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Walnut Grove Property Records, Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Roebuck

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Zoan Property Records, Zoan United Methodist Church, Galivants Ferry

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Wayne Georgetown Church Council Minutes 2017-2023, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Zoar Greer Cemetery Records, Zoar United Methodist Church, Greer

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Zoar Greer Church History, Zoar United Methodist Church, Greer

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Wesley Chapel Union History, Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, Union

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Zoar Greer Property Records, Zoar United Methodist Church, Greer

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Zoar Greer Membership Records, Zoar United Methodist Church, Greer

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Zoan Membership Records, Zoan United Methodist Church, Galivants Ferry

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Contributors, Jewish Folkore & Ethnology Editors

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

Contributors to Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Volume 2

In Memoriam: Tamar Alexander-Frizer (1945–2023), Eli Yassif

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

Memorial Essay for Professor Tamar Alexander (1945-2023)

(Candle)Sticks On Stone: The Representation Of Women In Jewish Tombstone Art, Ruth Ellen Gruber

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

Candles and candlesticks are a common and potent symbol on the gravestones of Jewish women because lighting the Sabbath candles is one of the three so-called “women’s commandments” carried out by female Jews; it is the only one easily represented in visual terms. This essay describes the author’s field research, photographic, and writing project, “(Candlesticks) on Stone,” carried out mainly in 2009–2011, to explore the variety of ways candles and candlesticks are depicted on women’s gravestones in Eastern Europe. It also questions the transmission of the candle-lighting tradition from her East European ancestors to later generations.

“In Proverbiis Non Semper Veritas”: Reflections On The Reprint Of An Antisemitic Proverb Collection, Wolfgang Mieder

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

This article concerns the highly questionable 2016 reprint of Ernst Hiemer’s antisemitic proverb collection Der Jude im Sprichwort der Völker (1942, The Jew in the Proverbs of the People). It begins with a glance at earlier antisemitic proverb collections while also reviewing some of the superb Yiddish and Jewish/Hebrew proverb collections and serious studies on this rich repertoire of proverbs. This is followed by a discussion of the misguided antisemitic publications of the nineteenth century that were precursors of even more slanderous and prejudiced collections that appeared during the time of National Socialism. It is shown that both traditional …

Why Were There No Jokes After The 2021 Meron Crowd Crush? On Israeli “Joking Relationships”, Tsafi Sebba-Elran

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

The vast research literature on disaster jokes demonstrates that no calamity is too horrific to be followed by jokes that typically recontextualize traumatic events and channel the threatening voices that these events provoke. Why, then, did no jokes circulate after the deadliest civil disaster in Israel’s history, which occurred on Mount Meron during the Lag Ba’Omer celebrations in April 2021? Drawing upon the ethnographic concept of “joking relationships,” this essay documents representations of ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) in contemporary Israeli memes and explains the restraint that Israeli society shows toward this group with whom the Meron disaster is associated. …

The Besht As Ba’Al Shem: Magic In The Life And Legacy Of Israel Ba’Al Shem Tov, Elly Moseson

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

Israel Ba’al Shem Tov (the Besht), the purported founder of the Hasidic movement, achieved renown during his lifetime as a holy man and a ba’al shem—a magician and folk healer. This paper surveys the sources containing evidence pertaining to the Besht’s medico-magical activities, presents the variety of recipes and rituals that have been preserved in his name, and explores the implications these hold for understanding his life and legacy. It further argues that the centrality of magic we find in the life of the Besht did not disappear with his death but was maintained within the Hasidic movement that …