New books:
A Documentary History of Unitarian Universalism: From the Beginning to 1899
Dan McKanan, editor A panel of top scholars presents the first comprehensive collection of primary sources from Unitarian Universalist history. This critical resource covers the long histories of Unitarianism, Universalism, and Unitarian Universalism in the United States and around the world. Selections include sermons, theologies, denominational statements, hymns, autobiographies, and manifestos, with special attention to class, cultural, gender, and sexual diversity. Volume One begins with selections from Arius and Origen and covers Unitarian and Universalist history through the end of the nineteenth-century. Selections include those of leaders, thinkers, and ordinary participants in the ever-changing tradition of liberal religion.
A Documentary History of Unitarian Universalism: From 1900 to the Present
Dan McKanan, editor Volume Two provides a selection of documents from the beginning of the twentieth-century through more recent writings from Peter Morales and Rebecca Parker. This anthology features a wide variety of selections, more than a hundred distinct selections per volume, each with scholarly introductions by leading experts in Unitarian Universalist history. Volume 2 provides a wealth of sources from the first fifty-five years of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Selections include sermons, theologies, denominational statements, hymns, autobiographies, and manifestos, with special attention to class, cultural, gender, and sexual diversity. Primary sources are the building blocks of history, and A Documentary History of Unitarian Universalism presents the sources we need for understanding this denomination’s past and for shaping its future.
True Harvest
Collected by Barry M. Andrews Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year; Offers 365 short readings from the famous Transcendentalist
The Spirit Leads
Barry M Andrews, editor Margaret Fuller in Her Own Words
Commemorates the bicentennial of Margaret Fuller’s birth with a dynamic collection of excerpts from her writings. Also available as an eBook in the Amazon Kindle Store and on Google Play.
Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul
Barry M. Andrews focuses on a neglected aspect of this well-known group, showing how American Transcendentalists developed rich spiritual practices to nurture their souls and discover the divine. The practices are common and simple―among them, keeping journals, contemplation, walking, reading, simple living, and conversation. In approachable and accessible prose, Andrews demonstrates how Transcendentalism’s main thinkers, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and others, pursued rich and rewarding spiritual lives that inspired them to fight for abolition, women’s rights, and education reform. In detailing these everyday acts, Andrews uncovers a wealth of spiritual practices that could be particularly valuable today, to spiritual seekers and religious liberals.
Children of the Same God
Susan J. Ritchie In Children of the Same God, Susan J. Ritchie makes the groundbreaking historical argument that….
History of the First Parish Church of Scituate, MA
Richard M. Stower The First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts was gathered in 1634 but the history of the c..
Selma Awakening
Mark Morrison-Reed The foremost scholar of African-American Unitarian Universalist history presents this long-await..
Stirring the Nation’s Heart: Eighteen Stories of Prophetic UUs
Polly Peterson Here are eighteen compelling stories from the lives of some of the nineteenth-century Transcendental..
William Greenleaf Eliot
by Earl K. Holt III William Greenleaf Eliot: Conservative Radical When William Greenleaf Eliot came to the “untamed..
Missionaries, Builders, and Pathfinders:
Gail Forsyth-Vail and Polly Peterson Here are twenty compelling stories of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Unitarians and Univers..
Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition
Dan McKanan Prophetic Encounters explores the religious beliefs and practices of American radicals including Fre..
Standing Before Us: UU Women and Social Reform
Dorothy May Emerson Standing Before Us presents 160 years of women’s work. It contains letters, essays, stories, poe..
Walking Together
Conrad Wright Walking Together: Polity and Participation in Unitarian Universalist Churches To view this PDF ..
No Silent Witness: The Eliot Parsonage Women and their Unitarian World
Cynthia Grant Tucker “In Prophetic Sisterhood, Cynthia Tucker demonstrated that women’s networks are as fascinating as th..
THE BOSTON RELIGION: Unitarianism in its Capital City
Peter Tufts Richardson This work is a window into the entire history and significance of American Unitarianism. In tra..
An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions
Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris The scope, the depth, and the detail of this work are all impressive. Greenwood and Harris explo..
Elite: Uncovering Classism in Unitarian Universalist History
Mark Harris “Mark Harris has given us the gift of a well polished mirror and challenged us to look deeply into o..
FERENC DÁVID
Mihály Balázs, Translated by Judit Gellérd This is the first comprehensive history of early Transylvanian Unitarianism. Its prestigious aut..
Here We Have Gathered: The Story of Unitarian Universalism in Western Pennsylvania, 1808-2008
Kathleen R. Parker Kathleen R. Parker’s newest book integrates regional, social, and UU theological history with the ..
Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America
J. D. Bowers “A resolute and positive reaffirmation of Joseph Priestley’s place in the heritage of American Unita..
Sacred Service in Civic Space: Three Hundred Years of Community Ministry in Unitarian Universalism
Kathleen R. Parker “To minister is to serve.” So begins the opening chapter of ‘Sacred Service in Civic Space,’ an ..
The Arc of the Universe is Long: Unitarian Universalists, Anti-Racism and the Journey From Calgary
Leslie Takahashi Morris, James (Chip) Roush, Leon Spencer Skinner House has recently published a history entitled The Arc of the Universe is Long: Unitari..
Till The People All Are One: Darwin’s Unitarian Connection
Clifford M Reed Charles Darwin described himself as an agnostic, but how far was he really a Unitarian? That is ..