Academic literature on the topic 'Los Angeles. First Unitarian Church'

Williams, Mary Frances. Another history of the First Unitarian Church, Unitarian Universalist, Lynchburg, Virginia. Warwick House Pub., 1990.

A, Albee Peggy, and Northeast Cultural Resources Center (U.S.), eds. United First Parish Church (Unitarian): Church of the Presidents, Quincy, Massachusetts. The Center, 1996.

H, Gemmill Eva, and First Unitarian Society of Albany (Albany, N.Y.). History Committee., eds. First Unitarian Society of Albany, 1842-1992. The Society, 1994.

Wis.). Friends of the Meeting House First Unitarian Society (Madison. The Meeting House, First Unitarian Society, Madison, Wisconsin. Friends of the Meeting House, 1991.

First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church (Arlington, Mass.), ed. Arlington's first parish: A history, 1733-1990. First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 2000.

Ruston, Alan R. Stockton's first dissenters: The story of the Unitarian Church in Stockton. Unitarian Church, 1988.

A, Albee Peggy, and Northeast Cultural Resources Center (U.S.), eds. United First Parish Church (Unitarian), church of the presidents: Historic structure report, Quincy, Massachusetts. Norteast Cultural Resources Center, 1996.

Cory, Arthur T. The Unitarians in Fort Collins: The first hundred years. [s.n.], 1998.

Gifun, Frederick Vincent. New Bedford's church, the First Unitarian Church in New Bedford: Three hundred years of leadershp and transformation. Progressive Books, 2011.

First Unitarian Church of Richmond (Va.). Good morning and welcome. First Unitarian Church, 1986.

Detering, Heinrich. "Thomas Mann und die 'First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles'." In Von Emerson zu Thomas Mann. Göttingen University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.17875/gup2021-1718.

Detering, Heinrich. "Unitarische Kanzelrede (Pulpit Editorial vor der First Unitarian Church, Los Angeles, 1951)." In Thomas Mann-Handbuch. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-69437-4_86.

Wang, Yongxin. "How Architecture Responds to Humans: A Study of the First Unitarian Church." In Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research. Atlantis Press SARL, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_31.

Egerton, Douglas R. "“The rearing of a reformer”." In A Man on Fire. Oxford University PressNew York, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197554050.003.0003.

Richards, Joan L. "Breaking Away." In Generations of Reason. Yale University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300255492.003.0003.

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Hajdinac, Sara. "Religious identity as the state’s tool in modification of public space and its identity: the Yugoslav concept of the two squares in Maribor." In International conference Religious Conversions and Atheization in 20th Century Central and Eastern Europe. Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Annales ZRS, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.35469/978-961-7195-39-2_05.