History of religion

Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific analysis today.

This book investigates the construction of identity and the precarity of the self in the work of the Calvinist Fulke Greville (1554-1628) and the Jesuit Robert Southwell (1561-1595).

Psalms for the Poor talk back to the blunt and beautiful phrases of the King James Bible.

The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna's cult from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries.

Prudentius' Crown of Martyrs offers an English translation, with introduction and commentary, of the Liber Peristephanon, Prudentius' vivid collection of lyric hymns in honor of Christian martyrs.

The crusades are often seen as epitomising a period when hostility between Christian West and the Muslim Near East reached an all time high.

"e;In order to adequately address the issues of atonement and christology, we must understand how it is that we think about the relationship between God and the human being.

Die Universität Jena galt lange Zeit als Hort des wahren Luthertums und Rezeptionsort Luthers und der Reformation.

Bringing together artifacts, texts, and practices within an interpretive framework that stresses the cultural work performed by saints, Kathleen Ashley presents a comparative study of the cults of the medieval Sainte Foy at a number of the sites where she was especially venerated.

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of essays adds to a rich corpus of literature on Renaissance and early modern historiography, bringing a unique approach to several of the problems currently facing the field.

For a world so out of tune, this treatise intends to correlate from various instruments of learning, a new sound--a sound of hope.

Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr.

Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history.

This title, first published in 1987, explores the phenomenon of militant freethought among England's working classes from 1840-1870.

This book takes a new look at the impacts of Christianity in the late-nineteenth-century China.

In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium.

This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical.

What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread?

Innovative Discoveries for Ecumenical Ministries presents pertinent historical pastoral research considerations of the identity crisis in the priesthood requiring reconciliation of the hierarchical authority structures which have impaired authentic Christological pastoral leadership for decades.

The Interpretation of Old English Poems (1972) is a challenging approach in the critical appreciation of Old English poems.

By the end of the nineteenth century, William Gladstone was arguably the most popular statesman in America since Lincoln.

This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes in one of his last prison letters that he had "e;come to know and understand more and more the profound this-worldliness of Christianity.

Brigham Young was one of the most influential-and controversial-Mormon leaders in American history.

Gnosticism, Christianity and late antique philosophy are often studied separately; when studied together they are too often conflated.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Religion.

Reforming the Church before Modernity considers the question of ecclesial reform from late antiquity to the 17th century, and tackles this complex question from primarily cultural perspectives, rather than the more usual institutional approaches.

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination.

This learned and engaging study casts new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran.

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions.

This analytical, polemical, and personal book creates a lively interaction between mysticism and activism.

From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey information about beliefs, faith, identity, power, agency, resistance, and fashion.

Making Sense of Martin Luther uses a conversational format to explore how Luther’s dynamic understanding of God’s life-changing gospel informs day-to-day faith and life in the world today.

The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship.

This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance.

Jewish religious practice has been transformed by the Kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century.

Congregations are often confused or uninspired by the emphasis on Old Testament themes during Advent and too a overa , Christmas by December 26 to pay much attention to the gospel stories that follow Jesus' birth.

In den 1960er Jahren sicherte die DDR-Regierung ihre Macht einerseits durch die Militarisierung der Gesellschaft und andererseits durch die Einschüchterung Andersdenkender.

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory.

This second volume of Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables contains a previously unpublished series of six sermons by Edwards on Jesus' parable of the Sower and the Seed, as found in Matthew 13:3-7.

This volume explores constitutional reform, and in particular expansions in the franchise.

This concise and instructive guide outlines the specific challenges faced by the Latinx population in US health care, including language barriers, unfamiliarity with the medical system, lack of insurance, access issues, monetary factors, and most importantly the fears surrounding undocumented immigrants.