History of religion

First published in 1989, The Changing Parish is the first modern sociological account of the changing Roman Catholic parish in England.

Marriages are under increasing strain these days, with over half of them ending in divorce.

What does it mean for a husband to love his wife?

Informed by key passages in the Bible, the Chicago Neighborhood Prayer Guide is a resource to aid believers in seeking the welfare of the city through prayer.

A new and accessible translation of Hariulf's History of St Riquier, this book examines the history of a monastic community from the seventh to the eleventh century.

What if your life was immersed in mercy?

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This book explores the making of saints' cults in the early modern world from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering the entangled roles of materiality and globalization processes.

This volume of studies by the late Milton Anastos contains his major articles published after his previous collection appeared, along with the first publication of a portion of 'The Mind of Byzantium', Anastos's projected multi-volume survey of Byzantine intellectual history.

This book includes four hitherto unpublished papers together with a substantial introductory historiographical and bibliographical overview.

From Renaissance to Revolution (1923) traces in some of its many expressions the influence of the Renaissance on the politics and culture of Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Winner of a 2025 CMA Book Award from the Catholic Media Association: Religious Book Series (Honorable Mention).

This latest collection of studies by James Brundage deals with the emergence of the profession of canon law and with aspects of its practice in the period from the 12th to the 14th centuries.

Southwestern Journal of Theology 2024 Book Award (Biblical Reference / Biblical Backgrounds)This authoritative volume brings together a team of world-class scholars to cover the full range of New Testament backgrounds in a concise, up-to-date, and comprehensive manner.

Seit Jahrhunderten fasziniert und erschreckt uns die Gestalt des Teufels: Als Symbol für das Böse hat der "Fürst der Finsternis" in Kunst, Literatur und Religion eine ungebrochene Präsenz bewahrt.

Is Christianity True?

Hopefully, this document can be an instrument for increased clarity and coherence to the entire story of Jesus Christ the Messiah, (a) from the predictions of him and his predicted life characteristics (as documented in the Old Testament of the Judeo/Christian Bible), (b) to his actual life, messages, and purposes while on earth (as documented in the first four books of the New Testament), and (c) to the remarkable spread and clarifications of those messages, purposes, and prophies after his death and resurrection during the first century AD (as documented in the rest of the New Testament).

This volume includes selected papers (in English and Chinese) from an international conference held in Beijing in 2001, the year that marked the 400th anniversary of Matteo Ricci's arrival in Beijing.

Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority focuses on the responses of a group of twenty-first-century women to the lives and writings of thirteenth-century beguine mystics, and reveals how the struggle to discover their own inner spiritual authority connects two groups of women across centuries.

„Unam Sanctam: Die Herrschaft Bonifatius VIII.

This book is concerned with the concepts of Christian holiness and spirituality, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages.

This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context.

A moving and vivid account of what it meant to be a Puritan, this account draws on diaries, spiritual biographies, and devotional manuals to explore the daily and weekly ritual and discipline.

The book deals with some major aspects of Zoroastrianism in Iran during the Sasanian period, including the important distinctions between the spritual and the material modes of existence, the idea that Ahreman, the Evil Spirit, does not belong in the material world, and the widely current myth of Zurvan.

Liturgical ritual was a major element of the Christian cultures of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The 13th Dalai Lama: Bridging Faith and Diplomacy tells the remarkable story of a spiritual and political visionary who guided Tibet through an era of profound challenges.

Step into the mysterious world of the New Testament Apocrypha-a rich collection of ancient texts that offer fascinating insights into the spiritual and theological diversity of early Christianity.

Lynn Picknett elabora aquí un riguroso ensayo destinado a reescribir la historia de uno de los personajes más enigmáticos y fascinantes del Nuevo Testamento.

This study utilises John Donne's works concerning the Jacobean Settlement as a contextualised case study to examine a seriously pressing issue in contemporary society: the issue of Catholic loyalism post-1603 and the disputes that thistopic sparked over the matter of conformity.

This book, the first history of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, traces the origins of the order in the late nineteenth century through today.

The 16th century saw the rise of movements of religious reform which, in Spain as elsewhere, contributed to make the history of the period such a ferment.

By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history.

Hagiography is a rich source for our knowledge of many aspects of medieval culture and tradition.

Die rätselhafte Prophezeiung des Heiligen Malachias, die angeblich das Schicksal aller Päpste bis zum Ende der Zeiten vorhersagt, hat über Jahrhunderte hinweg Gläubige und Historiker gleichermaßen fasziniert.

In an era marked by profound upheaval and transformation, the Baruch Apocalypses emerged as powerful expressions of Jewish faith and enduring hope.

This book focuses on the transformative journey of Methodism and tackles a profound question: How did a radical revival movement evolve into an established mainstream Church?