It was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues;" the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible?and a pentecostal movement was created that would; by the start of the twenty-first century; attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents; and he has written a dynamic; provocative history of this explosion of spirituality?a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people.
#755967 in Books Dan Kurzman 1993-08-22Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .92 x 5.50l; 1.15 #File Name: 0306805332386 pagesISBN13: 9780306805332Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Bravest BattleBy Charlottekrn BookfairDan Kurzman’s non-fiction epic details the twenty-eight day battle; of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Kurzman includes a detailed bibliography; complete with notes and also snippets of Jewish history in Poland; before WWII. The book is explicit and graphic in detail; depicting a realistic view of life in the ghetto; of the atrocities committed by the German’s and an account of each individual day of the twenty-eight day battle that took place between the highly organized; highly trained Germans and the poorly equipped; starving; exhausted Jews. Very few of the brave men and women of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters survived. The book includes pictures of the fighters; of the ghetto; and of confrontations with Germans soldiers. Recommended.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. waste of moneyBy E. NelsonThis book is terrible. I was hoping to learn about the famous 'Warsaw Uprising' but this book is of no use. This reads like a poorly organized novel; full of fictionalized conversations (that obviously are made up and were not recorded at the time; yet are in quotations in the book). Rather than a historical text about what happened; who was involved; etc; this is just an incoherent rambling of endless names of people; conversations they had ..... with nothing put into context; and very disorganized. I read half way an gave up; I will need to try another book to learn more about what actually happened during the famous uprising. Very disappointed.17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. RivetingBy Mr. ChipsI was inspired to pick up this book after seeing Polanski's "The Pianist." This book is an overview of the Warsaw Uprising (the first one occurring in the Jewish Ghetto in 1943).Through what must have been exhaustive interviews with the survivors; many of whom may no longer be alive; Kurzman meticulously provides the details of the inspiring 28-day uprising; but in such a way as to absolutely captivate the reader. There may be biases or omissions of which I am not aware; but there was enough to give me a broad background on the uprising and its context -- and to keep me riveted on the struggle.One disappointment was the production values of the 1993 Da Capo Press edition; which is a republication of Putnam's 1976 edition. From the look of the type and photos; it appears they may have actually shot the plates for the present edition from a printed copy of the original edition! -- the photos especially are of unforgivably poor quality.But this doesn't detract from the tale of the uprising; which is told with compassion; and absorbed me totally for the better part of the 2 days it took to finish.
