History of religion

The articles here aim to develop and expand Professor GarsoA an's earlier research on the bilateral influences on Early-Christian Armenia, between Byzantium and the Sasanians.

BOOK 4 IN THE BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIES'The best of the new cosy crime writers' Daily Telegraph'You'll want to take a front row pew in Champton while this delicious series unfolds' Janice HallettIt is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry.

Beginning with a handful of members in 1830, the church that Joseph Smith founded has grown into a world-wide organization with over 12 million adherents, playing prominent roles in politics, sports, entertainment, and business.

With the Assemblies of God now over a century old, this book takes a fresh look at critical issues in the AG's origins.

Modern Pentecostalism in America began around the turn of the twentieth century, and most historians of this history have drawn from the available English-language sources.

Drawing on Jewish myth, ritual and tradition, as well as the author's own experiences, this original and unique book offers insights into how Jung's psychology and ideas are relevant if understood from a wider, archetypal, perspective.

Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558) was one of the most important international figures of mid-16th century Europe: principal antagonist of Henry VIII, papal diplomat, legate to the council of Trent, and nearly successful candidate for pope.

This Element explores the world of psychedelic religion, where people consume psychedelic drugs in conjunction with their religiosity.

This book explores the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution.

Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity.

Protestant missionary children were uniquely 'empire citizens' through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts.

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.

What really happened after Acts?

'If the world can be moved by just the slightest push, then the person who knows where and when to push has real power.

In this inspirational book, Dr.

How did the temple-scape of Suzhou transform into garden-scape during the 13th to 16th centuries?

This is the first book-length exploration of presbyterians and presbyterianism in London during the crisis period of the mid-seventeenth century.

In May 2017, after sixty years as an ordained United Methodist minister, Rev.

Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian.

Die 100 wichtigsten Dinge – Ein unverzichtbares Kompendium für unsere ZeitWas sind die wirklich essenziellen Dinge in unserer Welt?

El traje de caballero es uno de esos símbolos subestimados pero perdurables de la civilización moderna, escribe Christopher Breward al comienzo de este libro, y plantea que durante casi cuatrocientos años, artistas y filósofos lo han señalado como evidencia de la incesante búsqueda humana de la perfección.

Seit Jahrtausenden wird die Macht von Herrschern durch religiöse Rituale, Symbole und den Glauben an eine göttliche Ordnung gestützt.

The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print.

The figure of Orpheus has long exercised a potent influence on religious thought.

The articles in this volume complement and continue work brought together on the author's previous collection, God's Decree and Man's Destiny.

Wenn die Tage kürzer werden und ein Hauch von Besinnlichkeit in der Luft liegt, beginnt überall auf der Welt eine besondere Zeit: der Advent.

In "Spirituelle Verbindungen: Dein eigenes Ouija-Board gestalten" nimmt dich Anna Techow mit auf eine inspirierende Reise, die Kreativität und Esoterik auf faszinierende Weise verbindet.

Who composed in Charlemagne's name the impressive treatise that repudiates the Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (but which, in the end, the king prevented for religio-political reasons from circulating in his own day)?

In these articles Professor McGuire explores the riches of the Cistercian exemplum tradition.

This volume includes seventeen essays on Byzantine monasticism, focusing on the 9th to 15th centuries.

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

After an introductory general essay on the life cycle and status of women in Byzantine society, this volume focuses on female religious life, with particular emphasis on the role of convents - as spiritual sanctuary, refuge for women in need, or provider of charitable services.

Was treibt Menschen an, Götter zu erschaffen und religiöse Systeme immer wieder neu zu erfinden?

Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens.

Spanning thirty years, the papers brought together in this volume reflect three of Professor Colish's interests as a historian of medieval scholastic thought.