History of religion

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In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate-Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber-by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as the writings of W.

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Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Mainz.

The Hungry Forties and the Great Famine, with their horrifying monikers, deserve a section just for the many voices engaged in political, humanitarian, and social venues in juxtaposition to the voices of the starving.

We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it safe for philosophy.

Christian ethics is less a system of principles, rules, or even virtues, and more of a free and open-ended responsible witness to God's gracious action to be with and for others and the world.

We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it safe for philosophy.

Martin Luther's thought continues to challenge people throughout the world in the twenty-first century.

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A beautiful memoir, travelogue and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle.

This second volume of Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables contains a previously unpublished series of six sermons by Edwards on Jesus' parable of the Sower and the Seed, as found in Matthew 13:3-7.

The History of Ancient Israel: A Guide for the Perplexed provides the student with the perfect guide to why and how the history of this most contested region has been studies, and why it continues to be studied today.

Women's Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century is the first comprehensive collection of women's economic writing in the long nineteenth century.

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

The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world.

This is a study of the union of matter and the soul in the human being in the thought of the Dominican Thomas Aquinas.

Ritual has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life.

How do people make sense of their past, and look forward into their future, through practices religious, spiritual or otherwise in places of both modernity and political trauma?

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

The Bible contains four Gospels which tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth.

The Miss America pageant has extraordinary staying power.

A member of the imperial Palaiologan family, albeit most probably illegitimate, Isidore became a scholar at a young age and began his rise in the Byzantine ecclesiastical ranks.

This volume presents Augustine''s writings on free will and divine grace in a new translation by Peter King.

This study examines women's prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity.

For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization.

Over the last century unprecedented numbers of Christians from traditionally Orthodox societies migrated around the world.

David Bebbington is well known for his characterization of the Evangelical movement in terms of the four leading emphases of Bible, cross, conversion, and activism.

While religious diversity is often considered a recent phenomenon in America, the Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina has been a diverse community since the area was first settled.

This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.

We live in a world obsessed by luxury.

Glossolalia (paranormal speaking in tongues) and zenolalia (paranormal speaking in allegedly foreign languages) are features of many sub-cultures and religions.

This title, first published in 1985, contains two of Thomas Ball Barratt's influential works; In the Days of the Latter Rain and When the Fire Fell and an Outline of My Life.

The theme of this volume is the transformation of European Christianity into a world-wide religion.

This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval - and a few early modern - women across Western Europe.

First published in 1940, this title presents four of the Gifford Lectures in natural theology given by Edwyn Bevan in 1933: 'An Inquiry into Idolatry and Image-Worship in Ancient Paganism and Christianity'.

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare.

In his writings and his career Gregory of Nyssa assumes many roles.

This book provides the first major analysis of the covenanted interest from an integrated three kingdoms perspective.

This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine.