History of religion

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The mass is an extraordinary musical form.

Religion in Ancient History (1969) includes 25 essays on comparative religion, covering the origin of religion, and studies of the religions of the peoples of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Iran.

Shows how the Reformation''s focus on God influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Through an innovative synthesis of narrative critique, oral-formulaic study, folkloric research, and literary analysis, Kristen H.

Until his death in 1877, Brigham Young guided the religious, economic, and political life of the Mormon community, whose settlements spread throughout the West and provoked a profound political, legal, and even military confrontation with the American nation.

Resuscitate your relationship with the BibleA lot of us have tried to read the Bible.

Augustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert.

What did ghosts look like, what did they do, and what can they tell us about Chinese culture and society?

Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right.

In the years since 1945, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown rapidly in terms of both numbers and public prominence.

North America has rarely produced a theologian as creative and productive as Robert W.

The essays in this book aim to answer the following questions: What was the place of prayer in the early modern world?

This book provides three categories of investigation: 1) The Typology and Context of the Greco-Roman Banquet, 2) Who Was at the Greco-Roman Banquets, and 3) The Culture of Reclining.

In dieser Quellenstudie wird die schriftliche Überlieferung zur Ehefrau Martin Luthers ausgewertet mit dem Ziel, ein primär zeitgenössisches Bild der Lutherin zu erheben.

The concept of vocation in an early modern setting calls to mind the priesthood or religious life in a monastery or cloister; to be "e;called"e; by God meant to leave the concerns of the world behind.

A Comprehensive Christian Resource for Treating Sexual Addiction and Problematic Sexual BehaviorAn estimated three to five percent of the U.

What is jihad?

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men.

A new, highly accessible history of ancient Egypt under Roman rule, supported by numerous illustrations and quotations from primary sources.

The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II, 1962-65) was distinctly different from other councils in one significant aspect.

Through the fascinating stories of pioneering ministers, this book reveals a unique picture of progressive changes occurring in the Christian tradition.

The Analects (Lunyu) is the earliest and most influential record of the teachings of Kongzi (551-479 B.

Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (first place, anthology).

In the generation after Constantine the Great elevated Christianity to a dominant position in the Roman Empire, his nephew, the Emperor Julian, sought to reinstate the old gods to their former place of prominencein the face of intense opposition from the newly powerful Christian church.

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How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire?

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context.

This unique Atlas traces the history of Jerusalem from biblical times to the present day.

The Eastern Christian "e;Love of the Beautiful"e; canbe a companion on your own spiritual journey A collection of writings by monks from the fourth to fifteenth centuries, the Philokalia more than any other text reflects the Eastern Church's interpretation of the Bible's meaning.

In The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Ryan P.

Wellness has become synonymous with yoga, meditation, and other forms of self-care.

Although Sojourner Truth was born into bondage and oppression, in liberation she emerged as a leader in the most radical causes of her era.

The Bible is among the world's most influential and important books - and the most controversial.

Throughout history, the relationship between Jews and their land has been a vibrant, much-debated topic within the Jewish world and in international political discourse.

By making Korea a central part of comparative history of East Asian religion and society, this book traces the evolution of Korean religion from the oldest representation to that of the current day by utilizing wide-ranging interdisciplinary and comparative resources.

When a boy cries, his father trains him in the way of the ancients.

This title, first published in 1983, is a significant study of one of the many revivalist movements which flowered in numerous Islamic societies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and attempts to provide one particular assessment of the place of revivalism in the evolution of Islamic societies.

Would it surprise you to know that New Testament scholars, missiologists, and church-planting authorities cannot agree on how to define tentmaking, whether or not the church should be practicing it today, or even why Paul did it in the first place?

Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history.

From its original composition and wide distribution in the early second century, the Shepherd of Hermas has both puzzled and intrigued readers with its strange images, surprising language, and challenging rhetoric.

After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible.