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  • Discovering the End of Time

    Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O’Connell

    by Donald Akenson ...
    Apocalyptic millennialism is embraced by the most powerful strands of evangelical Christianity. The followers of these groups believe in the physical return of Jesus to Earth in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints, and, at last, final judgment and deep eternity.In Discovering the End of Time, Donald Akenson traces the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Americanization of the Apocalypse

    Creating America's Own Bible

    by Donald Harman Akenson ...
    In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking new way of reading the Bible, one that focused attention squarely on the end-times. That scripture, The Scofield Reference Bible, would become the ur-text of American apocalyptic evangelicalism, and later, a ... Read more

    $172.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Orangeman, Second Edition

    The Life and Times of Ogle Gowan

    by Donald Akenson ...
    From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Confederation, central Canada was awash with migrants from the British Isles and their cultural values. The raw prejudice that they brought with them – against the French, the Catholics, and even Yanks and Europeans – bound together the eventual political majority in Ontario. The Orangeman uses the life of Ogle Gowan, an Irish Protestant upstart from County ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Some Family

    The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself

    by Donald Akenson ...
    Using supporting evidence that runs from the Solomon Islands and classical China to ancient Ireland, Akenson argues that there are four basic genealogical forms. Highly significant on its own, this insight also provides the information needed to assess the Latter-day Saints' efforts to provide a single narrative of how humanity keeps track of itself. Appendices cover topics of vital interest to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Exporting the Rapture

    John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North American Evangelicalism

    by Donald Akenson ...
    Apocalyptic millennialism is one of the most powerful strands in evangelical Christianity. Across many powerful evangelical groups there is general devotion to faith in the physical return of Jesus in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture heavenward of "saved" believers, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints, and, eventually, a final judgment and entry into deep ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Discovering the End of Time

    Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O’Connell

    by Donald Akenson ...
    Apocalyptic millennialism is embraced by the most powerful strands of evangelical Christianity. The followers of these groups believe in the physical return of Jesus to Earth in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints, and, at last, final judgment and deep eternity.In Discovering the End of Time, Donald Akenson traces the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • A Mirror to Kathleen's Face

    Education in Independent Ireland 1922-60

    by Donald Akenson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1975, Donald Akenson’s book was at the forefront of a radically new approach to the study of Irish educational history. Instead of investigating the evolution of the schools as an isolated process, he explores the complex interrelations of Irish education, institutions and society, treating the schools as cultural litmus paper. By presenting Ireland’s schools as a reflection of ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Some Family

    The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself

    by Donald Akenson ...
    Using supporting evidence that runs from the Solomon Islands and classical China to ancient Ireland, Akenson argues that there are four basic genealogical forms. Highly significant on its own, this insight also provides the information needed to assess the Latter-day Saints' efforts to provide a single narrative of how humanity keeps track of itself. Appendices cover topics of vital interest to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Education and Enmity (Routledge Revivals)

    The Control of Schooling in Northern Ireland 1920-50

    by Donald Akenson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1973 Professor Akenson’s book traces the series of religious and political controversies which have battered the state schools of Northern Ireland. After the government’s admirably intentioned, but muddled, attempt to create a non-sectarian school system in the early 1920s, the educational system was progressively manipulated by sectarianism. The way in which the author ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Irish Education Experiment

    The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century

    by Donald Akenson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume focuses on the creation, structure and evolution of the Irish national system of education. It illustrates how the system was shaped by the religious, social and political realities of nineteenth century Ireland and discusses the effects that the system had upon the Irish nation: namely that it was the chief means by which the country was transformed from one in which illiteracy ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Between Dispersion and Belonging

    Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice

    Edited by Amitava Chowdhury, Donald Akenson ...
    Series Book 2 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    As a historical and religious term "diaspora" has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and ’90s. Within its various usages, two broad directions stand out: diaspora as a dispersion of people from an original homeland, and diaspora as a claim of identity that expresses a form of belonging and also keeps alive a sense of difference.Between ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Exporting the Rapture

    John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism

    by Donald H. Akenson ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 30 min

    Apocalyptic millennialism is one of the most powerful strands in evangelical Christianity. It is not a single belief, but across many powerful evangelical groups there is general adhesion to faith in the physical return of Jesus in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture heavenward of "saved" believers, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints and, eventually, a final ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook