Diane L Winston

Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army

Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army

Women's Action Almanac: A Complete Resource Guide

Women's Action Almanac: A Complete Resource Guide

Faith in the Market : Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture

Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture

Diane Winst

Diane Grisham Winston (born August 13, 1948) is a businesswoman from Covington, Louisiana, who served as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of ...

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media (Oxford Handbooks)

Whether the issue is the rise of religiously inspired terrorism, the importance of faith based NGOs in global relief and development, or campaigning for evangelical voters in the U.S., religion proliferates in our newspapers and magazines, on our radios and televisions, on our computer screens and, ...

Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban Commercial Culture

Scholars have long assumed that industrialization and the growth of modern cities signaled a decline of religious practice among urban dwellers - that urban commercial culture weakened traditional religious ties by luring the faithful away from their devotional practice. Spanning many discipline...

Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of The Salvation Army

In this engrossing study of religion, urban life, and commercial culture, Diane Winston shows how a (self-styled "red-hot") militant Protestant mission established a beachhead in the modern city. When The Salvation Army, a British evangelical movement, landed in New York in 1880, local citizens cal...

Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness

Mindfulness—the art of paying attention with an open and curious mind to present-moment experiences—has attracted ever-growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have come to the discipline from both within and outside the Buddhist tradition. In Fully Present, leading mindfulness r...

Small Screen, Big Picture: Television and Lived Religion

A pioneering study at the intersection of religion and media, Small Screen, Big Picture treats television as a virtual meeting place where Americans across racial, ethnic, economic and religious lines find instructive and inspirational narratives. An interdisciplinary tour de force, this book descri...