History of religion

Amid the thunderous chaos of World War I, one man stood as a beacon of hope and reconciliation: Pope Benedict XV.

Celtic Britain (1979) traces the history of the Celts and Celtic culture from the arrival of the first scattered groups of settlers in Britain in the seventh century BC to the development of the kingdoms of medieval Scotland and Wales.

Almost every organization has a vision.

This book investigates the beginnings of Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the Spanish invasion of northern Morocco and the twenty-seven-month occupation of the city of Tetouan from 1859 to 1862.

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman?

How do archaeologists explore the various dimensions of religion?

This book is a re-edition and detailed study of a parchment codex from Egypt of the fourth century CE with Greek and Coptic recipes for healing through magic and pharmacology (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Library Ms.

In Creation and Contemplation, Julien Decharneux explores the connections between the cosmology of the Qur'an and various cosmological traditions of Late Antiquity, with a focus on Syriac Christianity.

Many Jewish groups of late antiquity assumed that they were obligated to observe the Divine Law.

A fresh look at Acts of the Apostles and its depiction of Jewish identity within the larger Roman era When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity.

In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined-and continues to define today-the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths.

The Decline of Neutrality (1971) examines the impartial, disinterested neutrality as it was codified in the Hague Convention in 1907 and the changes the concept underwent from the beginning of World War I in 1914 up to Pearl Habor, December 1941.

Edwards and the Edwardseans gathers into a single volume eight of the author's previously published articles and chapters.

Petitioning Osiris re-edits, re-analyses, and re-contextualises the "e;Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus"e; and "e;Curse of Artemisia"e; - written petitions to different manifestations of Osiris - among the Letters to Gods in Demotic, Greek, and Old Coptic from Egypt.

Dieses eBook: "Christus Legenden" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

A New Yorker best book of 2025'brilliantly inventive'.

Despite its relevance to the subsequent development of Western Islamic studies, the intellectual contribution of early modern Catholicism is still an under-researched area.

Petitioning Osiris re-edits, re-analyses, and re-contextualises the "e;Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus"e; and "e;Curse of Artemisia"e; - written petitions to different manifestations of Osiris - among the Letters to Gods in Demotic, Greek, and Old Coptic from Egypt.

This book tells three overlapping stories: first, the life story of Rev.

This book presents an original and archivally rich account of the Church of England's institutional grappling with matters of sex, relationships, marriage, birth control, and same-sex attraction between 1918 and 1980, uncovering a long and complex history of debates and disagreements that led to its present-day impasse over issues of sexuality.

Late Saxon and Viking Art (1949) is a lavishly-illustrated examination of the art of the Saxon era - the carvings, sculpture, illustrations, drawings and paintings that emerged from the Anglo-Saxon and Viking cultures.

Winner of a 2025 CMA Book Award from the Catholic Media Association: Catholic Social Teaching (First Place).

This volume is number one of a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century.

Anglo-Saxon Coins (1961) is an illustrated analysis of the coinage of the Anglo-Saxon era.

Bringing contemporary couple therapy to life, this casebook candidly illustrates the whats, whys, and how-tos of leading clinical approaches.

A look at the Methodist tradition of social witness.

This is the first book-length study of the legacy and memory of the main military orders in Britain, the Templars and Knights of St.

Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices celebrates Sharon Farmer's significant contributions to the fields of medieval European social, religious, gender, environmental, labor, and interfaith history.

The Boy in the Suitcase: Holocaust Family Stories of Survival is a uniquely different Holocaust book.

Introducing Religion examines the different ways of looking at religion in the twenty-first century.

Anticlerical legacies is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Thomas Hobbes's ideas by the English deists and freethinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Bible and Battlefield: 7 Lessons from the Civil War for Our Christian Faith Today is a type of Bible study that weaves history and biblical lessons together in a way that has not been done before.

The Advent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost caused quite a commotion: 120 believers speaking in tongues, every foreigner hearing the wonderful works of God in their native language, and 3,000 people saved!

Macleard Banda is a third born son of Mr Simeon Banda of Chimdidi Village Traditional Authority Wimbe, in Kasungu.

Some scholars classify the Last Church of God and His Christ under the ecclesiastical-cultural bloc known as African Indigenous Churches (AICs).

In Christian history spiritual awakenings are a recurring and important phenomenon.

Stephen Kauta Msiska was ordained to the ministry in 1945 and served the Livingstonia Synod in a number of lakeshore parishes before being appointed first a tutor and later Principal of the united CCAP Theological College at Nkhoma where he taught from 1962 to 1974.

While Northern Rhodesia was preparing for independence as the Republic of Zambia in 1964, impoverished villages in the remote north east of the country were divided by a bitter conflict fuelled by apparently irreconcilable political and religious convictions.

A book by women, for women, about money management.

In spring 1456, with the help of the faqih Yca Gidelli, Juan de Segovia accomplished a trilingual Qur'an (Castilian, Arabic and Latin) he regarded as fundamental to the conversion of the Muslims after the Ottoman conquest of Byzantium.

The eighteenth-century English minister Andrew Fuller lived a consequential life, debating noteworthy contemporaries such as Thomas Paine and contributing to the pioneering international work of William Carey.

Este libro tiene su origen en el pedido de dejar de difundir los Mensajes de la Virgen del Rosario de San Nicolás (Argentina), porque el catecismo ofrecido por María ya estaba completo; pedido que fue aceptado a nivel central y, como consecuencia, cesó la difusión de nuevos masajes.