TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenwood,Andrea
AU  - Harris,Mark W.
TI  - An introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist traditions
T2  - Introduction to religion
SN  - 9780521881487
AV  - BX9841.3 .G74 2011eb
U1  - 230.91 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Unitarian Universalist Association
KW  - gnd
KW  - Unitarian churches
KW  - History
KW  - Universalist churches
KW  - Unitarian Universalist churches
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Beginnings -- 3. Great Britain -- 4. From relevation to reason: America 1630-1833 -- 5. From reason to intuition to freedom: USA 1833-1894 -- 6. A religion for one world -- 7. Congregational polity -- 8. Worship -- 9. Sources of faith -- 10. Science and ecology -- 11. Architecture, art, and music -- 12. Education and social justice -- 13. Current issues, new directions
N2  - "How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the Unitarianism of New England is indigenous and the point from which the religion spread. Relationships between Polish radicals and the English Dissenters existed and the English radicals profoundly influenced the Unitarianism of the nascent United States. Greenwood and Harris also explore the US identity as Unitarian Universalist since a 1961 merger and its current relationship to international congregations, particularly in the context of twentieth-century expansion into Asia"--
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