History of religion

This edited collection of exciting new scholarship provides comprehensive coverage of the broad sweep of twentieth century religious activism on the American left.

This book explores changing gender and religious roles for Catholic men and women in the British Isles from Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church in 1534 to full emancipation in 1829.

This book provides a sociological understanding of the phenomenon of exorcism and an analysis of the reasons for its contemporary re-emergence and impact on various communities.

This volume explores the critical reactions and dissenting activism generated in the summer of 1968 when Pope Paul VI promulgated his much-anticipated and hugely divisive encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which banned the use of  'artificial contraception' by Catholics.

This book offers a new interpretation of political reform in the settler colonies of Britain's empire in the early nineteenth century.

This book offers a range of interdisciplinary evaluations of the history of same-sex relationships in the Church as they have been understood in different periods and contexts.

This book provides a study of the manner in which the Roman Catholic Church in France responded to successive revolutions between 1789 and 1870 as well as to the cultural upheaval associated with accelerating socio-economic change.

This book analyses the efforts of British civil society to help a Russia seen to be struggling between 1890 and the 1920s.

This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe's eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the Iron Curtain in the late 1940s.

This book explores the responses of the Roman Catholic Church to the French Revolution beginning in 1789, to the liberal revolution in 1830, and particularly the democratic revolution of 1848 in France, and asks how these events were perceived and explained.

This book depicts the significant role played by American Catholic Women Religious in the broader narratives of modern American history and the history of the Catholic Church.

This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare.

This book offers a range of interdisciplinary evaluations of the history of same-sex relationships in the Church as they have been understood in different periods and contexts.

This volume examines the French Revolution's relationship with and impact on religious communities and religion in a transnational perspective.

This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe.

This book considers three defining movements driven from London and within the region that describe the experience of the Church of England in New England between 1686 and 1786.

This book is the first in-depth analysis of Ernest William Barnes' Christian-eugenic philosophy: 'bio-spiritual determinism'.

For the first time, all five of John Napier's works have been brought together in English in a single volume, making them more accessible than ever before.

This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones.

This book combines contemporary discussions on modernity with the history of the Muslim world.

This book reveals the origins of the American religious marketplace by examining the life and work of reformer and journalist Orestes Brownson (1803-1876).

This book examines three aspects of Rolle's thinking used throughout this work: his ontology, phenomenology, and sound ecology.

Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases "e;Holocaust inversion"e; in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust.

This book explores seven centuries of change in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean world through the rise and fall of Famagusta's medieval Armenian Church.

This book traces the development of Oman's inclusive agreements and highlights their importance for international negotiations, dealing with issues most relevant to humanity's own survival today, nuclear weapons or climate change.

This book is an investigative study of Christian and Islamic relations in the kingdom of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

This book presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: Jules Isaac.

This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda.

This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink medieval and early modern ritual.

This book examines the story of the 'discovery of America' through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty.

The book reveals the nexus between religion and politics today and shows that we live in an interdependent world where one global civilization is emerging and where the world's peoples are continuing to coalesce around a series of values that contain potent Western overtones.

This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft.

Your guide to understanding seven of the world's most prominent religionsIf you're interested in learning about world religions, this book is the place to start.

Seit der Homo sapiens gelernt hat, sich der Sprache zu bedienen, kann er sich Grössen jenseits der gegenständlichen Welt vorstellen und die vorgefundene Welt auch religiös deuten.

This book focuses on the value and necessity of modern sociology to Pope Francis's church reform project known as the Synod on Synodality.

The division of Jews and Christians was a long and by no means mono-linear process which took place at different locations and at different speeds and was not consciously promoted by either party.

Die vorliegende Untersuchung erbringt einen akribisch aus den Texten erarbeiteten Nachweis der Rezeption aristotelischer, peripatetischer und neuplatonischer Schriften durch Meister Eckhart.

Die Kirchengeschichte kennt zwei Traditionen, Äbtissinnen zu weihen: Eine 1.

Kirche und Theologie stehen inmitten umfangreicher Transformationen.

Das Ende des 1.

Der Beitrag von Frauen zur Entwicklung einer karitativen und sozialen Zivilgesellschaft ist weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten.

Tauchen Sie ein in die dramatische und oft tragische Geschichte der Kreuzzüge – einer der faszinierendsten Epochen des Mittelalters.

This book explores changing gender and religious roles for Catholic men and women in the British Isles from Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church in 1534 to full emancipation in 1829.

In Dietrich Bonhoeffers Briefen und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft finden sich an zahlreichen Stellen spekulative Äußerungen über Musik.

The transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages is still an enigmatic period in history.

Rabbinical literature forms the second canon of Judaism: Mishnah and Talmud, which were written in Palestine and Mesopotamia between 200 and 800 CE.

In medieval literature, tradition and innovation are often closer together than it seems at first glance.

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Old St Paul's and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul's and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providing important insights into the Cathedral's medieval institution.

Bibeltexte und biblische Gestalten spielen in den Schriften der Kirchenväter eine wichtige Rolle.