History of religion

The Russian church is central to an understanding of early Russian and Slav history, but for many years there has been no accessible, up-to-date introduction to the subject in English - until now.

Fourteen years ago, a corpus of bamboo-strip texts was found in a late-fourth-century-BCE tomb at Jingmen, Hubei province in central China.

In twenty-first century America, antisemitism is on the rise, especially on the extreme left, the radical right, and within political Islamism.

The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators.

Sayings of Gorakhnath presents a translation of late-medieval texts in Old Hindi, traditionally attributed to one of the founders of the Order of Nath Yogis.

Pioneer missionary Timothy Richard served forty-five years in China and became a household name among educated Chinese.

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association.

Focusing on Rumi, the best-selling Persian mystical poet of the 13th century, this book investigates the reception of his work and thought in North America and Europe - and the phenomenon of 'Rumimania' - to elucidate the complexities of intercultural communication between the West and the Iranian and Islamic worlds.

The Imitatio Christi is considered one of the classic texts of Western spirituality.

This is the first volume in a series of three exploring modern Chinese theology.

In this fascinating collection, Auke Jelsma explores the byways and outer reaches of the Reformation: groups and individuals who, in an age of confessional strife, eschewed the certainties of the established churches and sought religious truth in unconventional ways and across confessional boundaries.

Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts.

This is a book that explores the nature of sainthood in a region at the margins of medieval Latin Christendom.

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Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants invoked saints, and why.

This book provides a more rational and systematic explanation for the origin and evolution of the Chinese narrative tradition, based on studies of Chinese literary classics, local culture and items such as bronze wares and porcelain vessels with "e;portrayed stories.

The English Civil War and its aftermath was a time of human devastation, political uncertainty and religious instability.

What sort of Bible did Augustine have?

This first volume includes scientific sources that were foundational in the professionalization of science and in the development and dissemination of scientific thinking as it moved towards evolutionary thought, including emerging ideas in biology, botany, zoology, anatomy, natural theology, and geology.

Methodists in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec, like all British subjects, existed as satellites of an influential empire.

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's evolving response to the English Revolution.

First published in 1930.

Where Is the Church?

The Zoroastrian Faith is organized around five themes: an account of Zoroaster's life and work; discussion of the development and spread of Zoroastrianism from its beginnings to the present; description of the sacred writings and religious documents of the faith; an analysis of the basic Zoroastrian beliefs and their influence on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and a description of the prescribed observances.

Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God.

The stories by Franz Kafka, illustrated by Hanna Koch, resemble fairy tales, enabling childrento discover the beauty of this prose.

Seit den 1960er Jahren beginnt ein Transformationsprozess des Selbstverständnisses der beiden großen christlichen Konfessionen in Deutschland, der wesentlich durch die Dominanz "sozialer" Themen geprägt ist: Die praktizierte Nächstenliebe - insbesondere in Gestalt von Diakonie und Caritas - wird in der Öffentlichkeit wie häufig auch in den Kirchen selbst geradezu als Ausweis des Christlichen interpretiert.

First published in 1931, History of Palestine is the dramatic picture of the Holy Land to which Jews returned after many centuries.

World Christianity: An Introduction provides an accessible introduction to the discipline, methodology, and field of world Christianity.

The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever writtenThe Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine.

Redeeming Beauty explores the richness of orthodox Christian tradition, both Western and Eastern, in matters of 'sacral aesthetics' - a term used to denote the foundations, production and experience of religiously relevant beauty.

This book challenges existing accounts of the role of religion in early-nineteenth-century British socialism.

Travel Israelpast and presentto learn about its people and its God with Harvard-trained biblical archaeologist, whimsical storyteller, and sunscreen advocate Amanda Hope Haley.

Las Vegas has long been characterized as "e;Sin City.

Now in its second edition, The French Revolution: Faith, Desire, and Politics has been updated to include a discussion about how the actions by soldiers and citizen-soldiers shaped the course of the Revolution, as well as the daily lives and concerns of everyday French people.

A way of life: embracing grace, seeking holiness, building connections.

A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement.

This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "e;patron"e; used to designate both types of elite sponsor.

Most ecotheologies build their arguments on the Bible's creation-story and resurrection-narrative in the hope to save the ecology through spiritual meditation, reforming capitalism, and/or deliberative democracy.

Reveals the discovery of an artifact that many experts believe may be the Holy Grail *; Traces the journey of the Grail from the Holy Land to Rome and eventually to a ruined chapel in Shropshire, England *; Uncovers new evidence identifying the historical King Arthur and his connection to the Holy Grail The popular Arthurian stories of the Middle Ages depict the Holy Grail as Christ's cup from the Last Supper, which was believed to have been endowed with miraculous healing powers and the ability to give eternal life to whoever drank from it.

Offers an interdisciplinary interpretation of Ecclesiastes based on psychological research and a wide-ranging context of ancient literature.

The American Temper: Patterns of Our Intellectual Heritage explores the evolution of American intellectual thought through four major movementsPuritanism, Republicanism, Transcendentalism, and Pragmatismeach contributing distinctively to the American mind.

Major new study of secular-religious boundaries and the role of the clergy in the administration of Italy''s late medieval city-states.

For many American Muslims, the 9/11 attacks and subsequent War on Terror marked a rise in intense scrutiny of their religious lives and political loyalties.

Origen has been always studied as a theologian and too much credit has been given to Eusebius' implausible hagiography of him.

In this study of everyday religious culture in early modern Syria and Palestine, James Grehan offers a social history that looks beyond conventional ways of thinking about religion in the Middle East.