Aspects of religion

This book offers a new way of looking at Saint Thomas Aquinas-not as a living man, but as a posthumous source of relics.

In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and "e;magic"e; from an unusual perspective: that of food studies.

Typically, scholars approach migrants' religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin.

Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism.

Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership.

Die Klöster werden immer leerer – und doch wächst die Sehnsucht nach ihrer Ruhe und spirituellen Tiefe.

The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as contemporary events show, still very much alive.

Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism.

This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam.

This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context.

The essential objective of this study is to unpack the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the study of late ancient and early medieval Christianity-and then suggest a way out.

Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth.

Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership.

This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions.

Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered.

This is a beautiful translation by John Farndon (with Olga Nakston) of the late Ravil Bukharaev's literary existential novel memoir in which he explains to his wife how his Muslim faith and ideals influenced both his love for her and his understanding of life and self, particularly his quest for truth and 'authenticity'.

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world.

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility.

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is best known for his natural philosophical and mathematical works.

This book offers a new perspective on a long-debated issue: the role of the occult in surrealism, in particular under the leadership of French writer Andre Breton.

The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as contemporary events show, still very much alive.

The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charite, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century.

In Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines, the author analyzes the literature and politics of "e;spiritual conquest"e; in order to demonstrate how it reflected the contribution of religious ministers to a protracted period of social anomie throughout the mission provinces between the 16th-18th centuries.

This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire.

In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and "e;magic"e; from an unusual perspective: that of food studies.

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility.

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world.

This book offers a new way of looking at Saint Thomas Aquinas-not as a living man, but as a posthumous source of relics.

This book examines the social and political mobilisation of religious communities towards forced displacement in relation to tolerance and transitory environments.

Commemorating John Moorman's immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moorman's diverse writings on biography, hagiography, history, art, and prosopography.

Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction between text, image, and experience in the culture of commemoration that thrived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Old English Ecotheology examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry.

"'La esperanza no defrauda' (Rom 5, 5) afirmó de modo solemne el apóstol Pablo… quien también recordó que la predicación cristiana se centraba, escandalosamente, en un crucificado (cf.

The essential objective of this study is to unpack the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the study of late ancient and early medieval Christianity-and then suggest a way out.

What has Luce Irigaray's statement that women need a God to do with her thoughts on the relation between body and mind, or the sensible and the intelligible?

This Data Guide provides the documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in Dutch society 2011-2012.

Commemorating John Moorman's immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moorman's diverse writings on biography, hagiography, history, art, and prosopography.

Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth.

This Data Guide provides the documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in Dutch society 2011-2012.

With a foreword from Jan Jaap de Ruiter.

This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire.

This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions.

What has Luce Irigaray's statement that women need a God to do with her thoughts on the relation between body and mind, or the sensible and the intelligible?

This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures, the transformations of political economy and a 'nomadic' pastoralism, and the revitalization of a religious and cosmological heritage that has led to new forms of post-socialist politics.

Die Geschichte der Frauenordination in den aus der Reformation hervorgegangenen Kirchen setzt sich aus einer Fülle von Geschichten der Frauenordination zusammen.

Mandala's – Spiegel van de ziel is een inspirerend en toegankelijk boek dat je meeneemt in de wereld van mandala's, spiritualiteit en de taal van kleuren.

Die Geschichte der Frauenordination in den aus der Reformation hervorgegangenen Kirchen setzt sich aus einer Fülle von Geschichten der Frauenordination zusammen.

Weihnachten ist das Fest der Lieder und der Poesie.

Neste Grimório encontra-se um compêndio de Feitiços Negros, Seshaw.