History of religion

Saints' cults, with their focus on miraculous healings and pilgrimages, were not only a distinctive feature of Christian religion in fifth-and sixth-century Gaul but also a vital force in political and social life.

This volume of primary source material examine the thoughts and ideas behind music in Britian during the ninteenth century.

According to Christian sources from before the middle of the third century AD, the ancient evidence is unanimous that, although there were a few slight differences as to how weekends should be observed, one thing is certain and was uncontroversial: the main day of the week for early Christians to gather and worship was not the seventh-day Saturday Sabbath, but Sunday, which they sometimes called "e;the first day"e; or "e;the eighth day,"e; or "e;the Lord's Day.

The voices of Black women have historically been silenced, especially in theological and religious contexts.

This text combines study of the dynamic historical development of each religious tradition with a comparative thematic structure.

Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in 'classical' languages.

Al-Hujwiri came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire.

First published in 2003 Consuming the Past covers pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emile Zola, and explores the complexity of the fin-de-siecle French fascination with the Middle Ages.

The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest.

The sweetness of music is something that has puzzled Christian theologians for centuries.

Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present.

This biography is about an immigrant's daughter who remained in the shadows of her father, husband, sons, and daughter.

Imbued with character and independence, strength and articulateness, humor and conviction, abundant biblical knowledge and intense compassion, Katharina Schutz Zell (1498-1562) was an outspoken religious reformer in sixteenth-century Germany who campaigned for the right of clergy to marry and the responsibility of lay people-women as well as men-to proclaim the Gospel.

This book explores Muslim communities in Southeast Asia and the integration of Islamic culture with the diverse ethnic cultures of the region, offering a look at the practice of cultural and religious coexistence in various realms.

The Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character may have been working-class, but this did not reflect its social origins.

According to Christian sources from before the middle of the third century AD, the ancient evidence is unanimous that, although there were a few slight differences as to how weekends should be observed, one thing is certain and was uncontroversial: the main day of the week for early Christians to gather and worship was not the seventh-day Saturday Sabbath, but Sunday, which they sometimes called "e;the first day"e; or "e;the eighth day,"e; or "e;the Lord's Day.

This book centers on two inquisitorial investigations, both of which began in the 1540s.

Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated topic.

The Bible is the most overrated book in the world, and Jesus of Nazareth the most overrated person in world history.

The five-volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England').

The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther's revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism.

Because the Catholic Church, other Christian churches, and almost every national government permit exceptions to God's commandment that "e;you shall not kill,"e; Johannes Ude examines Catholic moral law to discern whether this commandment has absolute validity or may be modified so that in certain instances it is permissible to kill another human being.

Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia.

Explores Saint Thecla and her story as preeminent models for medieval hagiographers across Eurasia and North Africa.

This volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion.

Argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress.

This volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years.

The aim of this volume is to try to account for Isaiah's revolutionary vision from two disciplinary perspectives: one approach is the historical study of the Ancient Near East and the Bible, and the other rests on the study of international relations from a comparative, conceptual perspective.

First published in 1992, this book focuses on the Muslim community and how it has developed in North America.

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

Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim poets, philosophers, educationists, novelists, historians, artists and public intellectuals who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "e;Western"e; liberalism of empire.

Fundamentalism and American Culture has long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this day remains unsurpassed.

The Melitian schism originated in the context of the Diocletianic persecution.

Argues that Paul''s concept of ''inheritance'', as demonstrated in his letter to the Romans, subverted and challenged first-century Roman ideologies.

With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or statement that cannot be solved by the logical mind and which, after sustained concentration, can lead to sudden enlightenment.

Liturgical Elements for Reformed Worship is a series of four liturgical resources: three consisting of liturgical elements for Years A, B, and C, and a fourth, the first such resource to support the implementation of Year D: A Quadrennial Supplement to the Revised Common Lectionary (Cascade, 2012).

Gateway to the Heavenly City presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187.

A new perspective.

This book examines and contextualizes Abu Hamid Muhammad Ghazzali's (d.

Rome and the Maronites in the Renaissance and Reformation provides the first in-depth study of contacts between Rome and the Maronites during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.