SANTA CRUZ SPIRITUALITY

 

Fourth edition

Copyright 2009 by Paul Tutwiler,

Santa Cruz, California.

 

Previous title: Santa Cruz California: History: Spirituality: Associations

Update of November, 2012

 

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CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND AND METHOD OF THIS STUDY

            Go to Introduction.

                        Background of the project

                        Sources of information

                        Principles of organization

                        Use of the list

 

CHAPTER 2 ASSOCIATIONS

            Go to List of associations.

                        Aids to the use of the list

                        #1       Catholic and Episcopalian (Western liturgical family)

                                    #1.1 Roman Catholic Church: local assoc.

                                                founded before 1901

                                    #1.2 Roman Catholic Church: local assoc.

                                                founded after 1900

                                    #1.3 Recently founded Catholic separatist

                                                groups

                                    #1.4 Episcopalian

                        #2       Eastern Orthodox (Eastern liturgical family)

                        #3       Lutheran (Lutheran family)

                                    #3.1 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

                                                (ELCA)

                                    #3.2 Missouri Synod Lutheran

                                    #3.3 Various Lutheran

                        #4       Presbyterian and Congregational (Reformed-

                                                Presbyterian family)

                                    #4.1 Presbyterian

                                    #4.2 United Church of Christ

                                    #4.3 Congregational

                                    #4.4 Reformed Church in the United States

                        #5       Pietist-Methodist (Pietist-Methodist family)

                                    #5.1 Methodist

                                    #5.2 Free Methodist

                                    #5.3 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

                                    #5.4 German Methodism

                                    #5.5 Scandinavian Pietism

                        #6       Holiness (Holiness family)

                                    #6.1 Holiness Bands

                                    #6.2 Christian and Missionary Alliance

                                    #6.3 Church of God (Holiness rather than

                                                Pentecostal)

                                    #6.4 Church of the Nazarene

                                    #6.5 Salvation Army

                                    #6.6 Various Holiness

                        #7       Pentecostal (Pentecostal family)

                                    #7.1 Various Pentecostal, no longer in

                                                existence

                                    #7.2 Assemblies of God

                                    #7.3 International Church of the Foursquare

                                                Gospel

                                    #7.4 Pentecostal-United

                                    #7.5 Pentecostal Holiness

                                    #7.6 Pentecostal Church of God of America

                                    #7.7 Various Pentecostal

                        #8       European Free-Church (European Free-Church

                                    family)

                                    #8.1 Quaker

                                    #8.2 Mennonite Brethren

                        #9       Baptist and Christian Church (Baptist family)

                                    #9.1 Various Baptist; no longer in existence

                                    #9.2 Southern Baptist Convention

                                    #9.3 American Baptist Churches U.S.A.

                                    #9.4 American Baptist Association

                                    #9.5 Conservative Baptist Association

                                    #9.6 Baptist: exist in 2010; affiliation not

                                                ascertained

                                    #9.7 Christian Church/Church of Christ

                        #10     Independent Fundamentalist (Independent

                                                Fundamentalist family)

                                    #10.1 Calvary Chapel

                                    #10.2 Various Independent Fundamentalist

                        #11     Adventist (Adventist family)

                                    #11.1 Advent Christian Church

                                    #11.2 Church of God (Adventist)

                                    #11.3 Seventh-Day Adventist

                                    #11.4 JehovahÕs Witnesses

                        #12     Liberal (Liberal family)

                                    #12.1 Unitarian Universalist

                                    #12.2 Transcendentalist

                                    #12.3 Various Liberal

                        #13     Latter-day Saints (Latter-day Saints family)

                                    #13.1 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

                                                Saints

                                    #13.2 Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of

                                                Latter Day Saints

                        #14     Communal (Communal family)

                                    #14.1 Ohlone People

                                    #14.2 Romani People

                                    #14.3 Communes founded before the 1960s

                                    #14.4 Hippie communes of the 1960s    counterculture

                                    #14.5 Communes founded since the 1960s

                                                counterculture

                        #15     Christian Science-Metaphysical (Christian

                                                Science-Metaphysical family)

                                    #15.1 Christian Science

                                    #15.2 Various Metaphysical

                        #16     Spiritualist, Psychic, and New Age (Spiritualist,

                                                Psychic, and New Age family)

                                    #16.1 Classical American Spiritualism

                                    #16.2 American Spiritualist Recent in Origin

                                    #16.3 New Age

                        #17     Ancient Wisdom (Ancient Wisdom

                                                family)

                                    #17.1 Theosophy

                                    #17.2 Anthroposophy

                                    #17.3 Various Ancient Wisdom

                        #18     Nature Reverence (Nature Reverence family)

                                    #18.1 Shamanism

                                    #18.2 Neo-Pagan and Wiccan

                        #19     Middle Eastern (Middle Eastern family)

                                    #19.1 Zoroastrian

                                    #19.2 Judaism

                                    #19.3 Islam

                                    #19.4 Baha'i

                        #20     Eastern (Eastern family)

                                    #20.1 Hindu

                                    #20.2 Jain

                                    #20.3 Sikh

                                    #20.4 Buddhist

                                                #20.41           Miscellaneous Buddhist groups

                                                #20.42           Japanese

                                                #20.43           Tibetan

                                                #20.44           Burmese

                                                #20.45           Vietnamese

                                                #20.5              Taoist/Confucian

                                                #20.6              Shinto

                        #21     Other

                                    #21.1 Outside all categories

                                    #21.2 Generically Christian

                                    #21.3 No longer in existence; category not

                                                ascertained

                                    #21.4 Some organizations that have a spiritual base

                                    #21.5 Some oganizations that have a merely apparent

                                                spiritual base

                                   

CHAPTER 3 TABLES

            Go to Commentary.

 

CHAPTER 4 HISTORICAL SUMMARY

            Go to Commentary.

 

CHAPTER 5 PARTICULARS

            Go to Particulars.

 

            Meaning of the term spirituality

                        Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christianity

                        Pentecostalism

                        Spirit Fruit Society

                        Ohlone people

                        Mission period in Santa Cruz

                        Romani people

                        Classical American Spiritualism

                        Kabbalah; divination and tarot; Western mystery schools

                        South and East Asian spiritualities

                        Popular practices based on South and East Asian cosmologies

                        Christian Endeavor Societies

                        Woman's Christian Temperance Union

 

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

            Go to Bibliography.

 

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF ASSOCIATIONS, GROUPINGS, AND ALTERNATE NAMES

            Go to Alphabetical list.

 

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            There are non-commercially printed copies in libraries that have particular use for it as a reference, and anyone can print a copy from the PDF of the whole. The Santa Cruz Public LibrariesÕ electronic version is identical in content, but has been adapted for the convenience of online users.

 

            Santa Cruz spirituality is listed in WorldCat; its OCLC number is 94531155; its Library of Congress classification is BL2527.C2; its Dewey Decimal classification is 200.0979.