Religious institutions and organizations

Between 1700 and 1850 the Church of England was the among the most powerful and influential religious, social, and political forces in Britain.

Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha.

Cloistered and inaccessible 'brides of Christ'?

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of British women left home to follow a call to the African mission field.

The Asketikon of St Basil the Great comprises a new English translation and studies which re-examine the emergence of monasticism in Asia Minor.

In the centuries following his death, Jerome (c.

This book offers a reassessment of the theology of F.

Sophronius was one of the most influential figures spanning the ecclesiastical troubles in East and West during the sixth to the seventh centuries.

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, urgent and unprecedented demands among oppressed peoples in colonial India drove what came to be called 'mass conversion movements' towards a range of Christian denominations, launching a revolution in South Asia's two thousand-year Christian history.

St Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) is regarded as one of the most significant figures in Byzantine mysticism.

Leo the Great was the beneficiary of the consolidation of the power of the papacy in Rome and the Christianization of the city over the course of the preceding century.

The Council of Chalcedon in 451 divided eastern Christianity, with those who were later called Syrian Orthodox among the Christians in the near eastern provinces who refused to accept the decisions of the council.

This book is a study of the Anglican Reformed tradition (often inaccurately described as Calvinist) after the Restoration.

Robert Frykenberg's insightful study explores and enhances historical understandings of Christian communities, cultures, and institutions within the Indian world from their beginnings down to the present.

Keith Robbins, building on his previous writing on the modern history of the interlocking but distinctive territories of the British Isles, takes a wide-ranging, innovative and challenging look at the twentieth-century history of the main bodies, at once national and universal, which have collectively constituted the Christian Church.

Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha.

The 1960s were a time of explosive religious change.

The fourteenth-century controversy between the Dominican Durandus of St Pourcain and his order plays a central role in explaining the later success of Thomism.

Brent Waters examines the historical roots and contemporary implications of the virtual disappearance of the family in late liberal and Christian social and political thought.

The evil of the holocaust demands a radical rethink of the traditional Christian understanding of Judaism.

Possidius, the bishop of Calama, was a life-long friend of St.

Richard J.

W.

Peter Norton covers a topic of great relevance to students of early Church history and late antiquity alike.

Altars are powerful symbols, fraught with meaning, but during the early modern period they became a religious battleground.

Cloistered and inaccessible 'brides of Christ'?

Lanfranc of Pavia was archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089, and so for nineteen critical years in the history of the Anglo-Norman church and kingdom after the Norman conquest of 1066.

Newman himself called the Oxford University Sermons, first published in 1843, `the best, not the most perfect, book I have done'.

Significant advances in science bring new understandings of the human as a unity of mind, body and world and calls into question the deep-seated dualistic presuppositions of modern theology.

This selection of writings from the most important moments in the history of Christianity has become established as a classic reference work, providing insights into 2000 years of Christian theological and political debate.

In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently.

In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently.

The saints form a huge part of our world's history, on both a religious and secular level.

The saints form a huge part of our world's history, on both a religious and secular level.

The Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, George Errington (1804-1886) was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism.

The Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, George Errington (1804-1886) was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism.

The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history.

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history.

This book is the first publication of a very early set of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt, accompanied by four preliminary chapters discussing their historical and social context and their character as rules.

Law was central to the ancient Roman's conception of themselves and their empire.

The Handbook takes as its subject the complex phenomenon of Christian monasticism.

The Handbook takes as its subject the complex phenomenon of Christian monasticism.

Through its missionary, pedagogical, and scientific accomplishments, the Society of Jesus-known as the Jesuits-became one of the first institutions with a truly "e;global"e; reach, in practice and intention.

In the past thirty years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have made headlines with their statements on nuclear disarmament and economic justice, their struggles to address sexual abuse by clergy, and their defense of refugees and immigrants.

In the past thirty years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have made headlines with their statements on nuclear disarmament and economic justice, their struggles to address sexual abuse by clergy, and their defense of refugees and immigrants.

There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality.

A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation.

A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation.