History of religion

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of civility and political culture in the Muslim world.

Studies the thought and actions of the Reformation''s central figures - reformers, counter-reformers, and their supporters - in the light of ordinary people.

The larger part of Theodoret of Cyrus' existant body of work still remains untranslated, and this lack provides a fragmented representation of his thought and has lead to his misrepresentation by ancient, medieval and some modern scholars.

A new treatment of Augustine''s highly influential theology of the Trinity, challenging the long-held assumption that he over-emphasized God''s unity.

Why do so many evangelicals flock to liturgical traditions today?

This book is written as a memoir of 40-plus years of working with human experiences of death, grief, and bereavement.

Originally published in 1952, al-Din, by prominent Egyptian scholar Muhammad Abdullah Draz (1894 1958), has been critically acclaimed as one of the most influential Arab Muslim studies of universal 'religion' and forms of religiosity in modern times.

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700.

American Baptists emerged from the Civil War as a divided group.

The birth, growth and decline of the Vandal and Berber Kingdoms in North Africa have often been forgotten in studies of the late Roman and post-Roman West.

How did Christians in early modern Western Europe express their sense of community?

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world.

European settlers in Canada, Australia and South Africa said they were building 'better Britains' overseas.

The year 1998 was the 800th anniversary of the election of Lotario dei Conti di Segni as Pope.

A vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding and its historical relationship with Jesuit universities in the United StatesThe Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is renowned for the quality of the orders impact on higher education.

Although Basil of Caesarea was the first to write a discourse on the Holy Spirit, many scholars have since questioned if he fully believed in the Spirit’s divinity.

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history.

First published in 1949, Ancient Roman Religion is an introduction to some of the most outstanding features of the complicated religion, or rather series of religions, which flourished in Rome between the earliest recoverable ages of her long history and the close of the classical epoch.

A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.

This comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christians in Church activities and in anti-clerical dissent, explores a phenomenon stretching from Britain and Germany to the Americas and beyond.

First published in 1930, A History of the Modern Church is a scholarly and readable account of the church from the beginning of the Reformation to modern times.

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.

Despite a growing literature on identity theory in the last two decades, much of its current use in archaeology is still driven toward locating and dating static categories such as ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or ‘native’.

Explores Kant''s philosophy of religion and morality through his Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason.

The Arguments of Aquinas is intended for readers with philosophical interests, who may not be specialists in medieval philosophy.

The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical bookThe Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books, one that defies interpretation even today.

The Iraq War caused emotional, physical, psychiatric, relational, and spiritual challenges to an untold number of military reservists and their families.

Princes, Pastors and People traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.

This book traces the unitary source of all of the world's major religions.

An inside look at how religious diversity came to PrincetonIn 1981, Frederick Houk Borsch returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to serve as dean of the chapel at the Ivy League school.

This book charts the profound changes in British Christianity over the last century.

Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality examines how the hymn, historically and today, has reinforced, negotiated, and resisted constructions of race.

On October 30, 1608, Jacobus Arminius presented his Declaration of Sentiments to the Assembly of the States of Holland and West Friesland in the Binnenhof at The Hague.

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.

Dieser gewichtige Band versammelt Überlegungen zur kirchenhistorischen Methodik sowie Beiträge zur Rezeption des patristischen Erbes und der theologischen Überlieferung des Mittelalters in der reformatorischen Theologie Martin Luthers in Kontinuität und Konkurrenz zur kirchlichen Tradition.

Edwin Hatch provided a colorful portrait of the religious world to which Justin Martyr belonged: "e;The main subject-matter of .

Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options.

This English edition of Menno Simons' writings contains all the known writings of Menno, including several tracts, letters, and hymns never previously translated.

Providing a modern English translation of a key selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umari's Masalik al-absar, this book offers a rich description of Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half of the fourteenth-century A.