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Автор: Smyth Samuel Gordon Название: A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family ISBN: 0526821019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780526821013 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 49430.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Grounded in direct, systematic observation by neutral observers, Talking with the Children of God is a unique study of the radical religious movement now known as The Family International. The book draws on extraordinarily candid interviews with the group's leaders and administrative staff. In revealing new information about the organization's history, beliefs, and use of prophecy, Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd offer a highly detailed case study that is both an antidote to sensationalized coverage of the group and a means for understanding the transformational practices of new religious movements in general.
One of the most controversial groups emerging from the Jesus People movement of the 1960s, the Family originally was known as The Children of God. Under leader David Berg, members proclaimed an apocalyptic "Endtime," shunned secular occupations, lived communally, and adopted unusual sexual practices that led to abuse scandals in the 1970s and 1980s. Following Berg's death in 1994, the organization began to dramatically alter its evangelization efforts and decision-making processes.
Talking with the Children of God builds a picture of a complex organization with ten thousand core members worldwide, including details on the lives, careers, and responsibilities of the second generation and their efforts to defend their faith. The authors summarize the Family's history and beliefs as well as its controversial past. In particular, they analyze the organization's use of prophecy--or channeled revelations from Jesus and other spiritual beings--for making decisions and setting policy, revealing how this essentially democratic process works and how it shapes Family life and culture.
These remarkable insights are the result of sixteen years of surveys and field observations conducted in Family member homes in sixteen countries, plus four days of face-to-face interviews with Family leaders and organizational staff. The volume also includes condensed transcripts of the interviews with analysis by Shepherd and Shepherd.
Автор: Shepherd Gordon M. Название: Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine: 25th Anniversary Edition ISBN: 0190259388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190259389 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 167450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The neuron doctrine, first formulated in 1891, states that the brain is constructed of individual neurons, organized into functioning circuits that mediate behavior. It is the fundamental principal that underlies all of neuroscience and clinical neurology. Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine gives an authoritative account of how this theory was the product of an explosion of histological studies and vigorous debates near the end of the nineteenth century by an extraordinary group of scientists, led by Santiago Ramon y Cajal of Spain, using a selective stain discovered by Camillo Golgi of Italy. They were the first to describe the distinctive branching patterns of nerve cells, providing evidence that the cells interact as individual units to form circuits, opposed however by Golgi, who held out for a view that the nerve cells form syncytial networks. Studies in the 1950s appeared to confirm the nerve cell as an individual unit, as embodied in the neuron doctrine, which became the basis for the rise of concepts of normal and disordered neural function since then. This 25th Anniversary Edition is timely. Recent studies are showing a much greater degree of complexity in neuronal organization, so that the debate of neuron versus network is again coming to the fore in neuroscience research. Unique to this Anniversary Edition is the inclusion of commentaries by distinguished international leaders - Marina Bentivoglio, Xavier De Felipe, Sten Grillner, Paolo Mazzarello, Larry Swanson, and Rafael Yuste - on the continuing relevance of the neuron doctrine for modern studies of the brain at all levels, from genes and molecules to microcircuits, neural networks, and behavior. As this new wave of modern studies expands our concepts of nervous function as the basis of behavior, Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine will be a unique source providing conceptual continuity from classical times to the present and into the future.
With commentaries from
Marina Bentivoglio Paolo Mazzarello Javier DeFelipe Larry Swanson Sten Grillner Rafael Yuste
Автор: Shepherd R. Gordon, Shepherd A. Gary, Cragun Ryan T. Название: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism ISBN: 3030526186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030526184 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 214280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How are leaders dealing with such issues as the status of women in a patriarchal church, the treatment of LGBTQ members, increasing disaffiliation of young people, and decreasing growth rates in North and Latin America while sustaining increasing growth in parts of Asia and Africa?
Автор: Gary Shepherd, Gordon Shepherd Название: Growing Up in the City of the Saints: Glimpses of America in Salt Lake City During the 1950s and 60s ISBN: 1098388925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098388928 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 30010.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book consists of over 40 memoir vignettes that capture significant learning experiences of identical twin brothers-Gary and Gordon Shepherd-as they grow up in Mormon Salt Lake City during the 1950s and 1960s. Their stories in the first part of the book feature shared adventures with a wide range of friends, family, and adult models who shape the brothers appreciation for basic American ideals of democracy, equality, diversity, cooperation, and tolerance-especially as taught and modeled in the public schools they attended. Vignette stories in the second part of the book highlight later periods of time in the brothers lives as they mature and assume adult responsibilities while maintaining and strengthening friendship ties and their youthful core values. Their stories in both parts of the book are peppered with humor, good will, indignation, sadness, and even tragedy but also with rays of hope for the preservation of American ideals in todays troubling times. While the twins early lives were shaped by the Mormon culture in which they were raised, their memoir writings in this book are far from being devoted exclusively to Mormon or LDS Church topics. A broad audience of readers who enjoy incisively written memoir accounts -even if they grew up elsewhere and in different eras than the Shepherds did-will encounter universal coming of age experiences that resonate with their own.
How did Jo Ann Barnett--a Methodist girl born and raised in Hueytown, Alabama, during the Great Depression and World War II--come to be Jan Shipps, a renowned non-Mormon historian and scholar of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? In Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait, authors Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd tell the story of how Shipps not only became an important and trusted authority in a field that was at the time predominantly made up of Mormon men, but also the crucial role she played in legitimizing Mormon Studies as a credible academic field of study.
Автор: Shepherd Gary, Shepherd Gordon Название: Binding Earth and Heaven: Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism ISBN: 0271056347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271056340 Издательство: NBN International Цена: 28090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Focuses on Mormonism as a case study of how unpopular new religions may survive and even flourish in spite of unrelenting opposition. Examines early patriarchal blessings bestowed upon early converts to Mormonism from 1834-1845, and their function as a commitment mechanism for converts.
Автор: Gordon Garrett, Garrett Название: German shepherd dog history ISBN: 1948304996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948304993 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22980.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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