Religion and beliefs

Is it just me?

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions.

Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us.

The Way and the Mountain is a selection of Marco Pallis' most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism.

Offers straightforward and practical help for those who wish to spread the Christian message in an effective, relevant and engaging way.

Originally published in 1981, Who Cares?

In the fall of 2005, Mark C.

While he is more commonly known for his Trinitiarian works and theology, this study assesses mid-fourth-century bishop Hilary of Poitiers' view of the human condition.

The continuing interest in the works of C.

In 1943, Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the US Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied invasion of France.

This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures.

Der Kampf zwischen David und Goliat, Absalom, der sich beim Aufstand gegen David im Geäst eines Baums verfängt, David und Batseba: Das Erste und Zweite Buch Samuel stammen nicht von einem Autor, sondern sind Traditionsliteratur.

When tragedy strikes a community, it is often unexpected with long-lasting effects on the people left in its wake.

5784 Jahre Denkgeschichte für die ZukunftShitstorms, Sex, Selbstbestimmung – ein ungewöhnlicher Blick auf aktuelle Themen:Wenn es heute um jüdisches Leben geht, dreht sich die Diskussion – insbesondere in Deutschland – meist um den Holocaust, den arabisch-israelischen Konflikt oder Antisemitismus.

Plucked from a humble nomad family to become the leader of one of Tibet's oldest Buddhist lineages, the young Seventeenth Karmapa draws on timeless values to create an urgent ethic for today's global community.

In A Common Justice Uriel I.

Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment.

The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c.

The present collection of studies by Andrzej Poppe in many ways represents a continuation of the research brought together a quarter century ago in the author's previous Variorum volume.

If you could sit down with the Dalai Lama and talk with him about anything, what would you discuss?

The Essential Elements of Sex; provides you with the building blocks you need for the sex life you have always hoped for and dreamed about in your marriage.

Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious.

Since its first appearance in 1991, The European Reformation has offered a clear, integrated, and coherent analysis and explanation of how Christianity in Western and Central Europe from Iceland to Hungary, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees splintered into separate Protestant and Catholic identities and movements.

Since the third century BCE, when the king of Sri Lanka converted to Buddhism, the island nation off the southern coast of India has represented a central interest of Buddhist scholarship.

Will der Protestantismus in einer zunehmend säkularen Gesellschaft anschlussfähig bleiben, so tut er gut daran, sich auf seine liberalen Traditionen zu besinnen und die darin enthaltenen theologischen Einsichten, wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen und methodischen Ansätze für unsere Zeit fruchtbar zu machen.

First published almost twenty years ago, this practical guide by a media professional has helped countless churches to raise their profile in their local communities and more widely.

Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identityMuslim modernism was a political and intellectual movement that sought to redefine the relationship between Islam and the colonial West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Aus der kleinen Gruppe der NachfolgerInnen Jesu in Jerusalem wurde innerhalb kürzester Zeit eine Bewegung, die die damalige Welt erfasste und veränderte.

Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, the influence of health and sickness as a factor in the orders' decision making, the extent of their participation in treatments, their relationship with physicians or their own involvement in medical practice, and the problems which occurred as a result of these matters.

Published in the years following 9/11, David Darks book The Gospel according to America warned American Christianity about the false worship that conflates love of country with love of God.

Work is a first class social phenomenon.

Conrad Rudolph studies Hugh of Saint Victor''s forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name.

The essays are dealing with central topics concerning the Corinthian correspondence with special reference to 2 Corinthians.

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How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism?