History of religion

Demonstrates the relevance of comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.

Bringing a longue durée perspective to the issue, this book traces different theories of doctrinal development from antiquity to the present day.

Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history''s exceptionalism.

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

Demonstrates the theological power of Pindar''s victory songs by interpreting them within their contemporary religious landscapes.

An innovative, scholarly introduction to the distinctive and enigmatic Christian liturgy of early medieval Iberia.

Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.

A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.

Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Explores the hidden history of unbelief in the early modern era through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery.

Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.

Examines the idea that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism have the same historical origin, and share a range of surprising beliefs.

Examines the performative aspects of prayer and how they were represented in literature in early modern England.

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England.

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si'' in an era of climate crises.

Argues that laywomen''s interactions with gendered theology, Catholic rituals, and church institutions significantly shaped colonial Mexico''s religious culture.

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end.

Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.

Explores gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity.

Divine epithets serve a variety of purposes, with the most frequent being those related to the locations and functions of the gods.

Heilige und ihre Feste haben eine lange Tradition in den christlichen Kirchen.

Kirchen und christlicher Glaube befinden sich in unserer westlichen Gesellschaft im Umbruch.

Wer oder was ist der Teufel?

Die Reise Papst Franziskus' ins Heilige Land hat große Hoffnungen geweckt.

Die Reise Papst Franziskus' ins Heilige Land hat große Hoffnungen geweckt.

Die Themen der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung sind im universitären System, der Kirche und der Gesellschaft angekommen, wenngleich weiterhin nicht unangefochten oder selbstverständlich.

What if the history you've been taught is only half the story?

Der zweite Band der im Rahmen des Projekts »Papsturkunden des frühen und hohen Mittelalters« der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen erfolgten Neubearbeitung der Regesta Pontificum Romanorum knüpft an den ersten Band an und erschließt in kurzen lateinischsprachigen Regesten die Pontifikate von Sabinian bis Gregor IV.

This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine.

A modern prophet looks back on seven decades of activism.

Dante's Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development of Dante's poetics and in his theological reflection, suggesting, for the first time, the paramount role which Dante played within the history of emotions.

Dante's Emotions: Tears and Smiles between Time and Eternity reveals the centrality of tears and smiles in the development of Dante's poetics and in his theological reflection, suggesting, for the first time, the paramount role which Dante played within the history of emotions.

Divine epithets serve a variety of purposes, with the most frequent being those related to the locations and functions of the gods.

Die Vorlesungen zur Praktischen Theologie gehoren zu den Hauptwerken des bedeutenden Theologen und Philosophen Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834).

Die Auseinandersetzung mit Themen der Alten Kirche kann die Ausbildung interreligioser Kompetenzen fordern, die im Religionsunterricht und der gemeindlichen Praxis immer wichtiger werden.

Die Auseinandersetzung mit Themen der Alten Kirche kann die Ausbildung interreligioser Kompetenzen fordern, die im Religionsunterricht und der gemeindlichen Praxis immer wichtiger werden.

This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine.

Prophets' Stories is written for both children and adults in the West to read at home.

In a world increasingly hostile to traditional faith, Doug Grane delivers an inspiring journey through two millennia of Catholic history through the lives of twenty-one remarkable saints who dared to "e;go against the grain.