This book explores the inter-relationship between religious groups and wider society and examines the way religious groups change in relation to societal norms, potentially to the point of undergoing processes of 'internal secularisation' within secular and secularist cultures.
This book focuses on why the diffusion of the political theology of royal wisdom created "e;Solomonic"e; princes with intellectual interests all around the medieval West and how these learned rulers changed the face of Western Europe through their policies and the cultural power of medieval monarchy.
This accessible guide to the development of Japan s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto s enduring religious identity.
En estos cuatro fascículos, teólogas y teólogos de todas partes del mundo reflexionan sobre el tema central y los tres sub-temas (Libres por la Gracia de Dios: La salvación no se vende; los seres humanos no se venden; la creación no se vende) de la conmemoración de la Federación Luterana Mundial de los 500 años de la Reforma.
Video games fuel a fundamental human drive for adventure and greatness-whether it's an epic quest to slay zombies, a solo voyage to rescue the princess, or teaming up with a clan to defeat the final boss.
An examination of the early, mysterious Essene community at Qumran that links it with John the Baptist, Jesus, and the beginnings of Christianity*; Offers an eyewitness account of the final burial place of John the Baptist*; Makes the case that Christianity grew out of a form of monotheism first formulated by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten*; Includes physical and photographic evidence never before publishedIn his earlier book The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran, Robert Feather analyzed the Dead Sea Scroll engraved on copper that is considered the work of the secretive, devout Jewish sect known as the Essenes, who lived at Qumran around the time of Jesus.
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE FOR HISTORY 2015A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most.
Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought to light the importance of a historical approach to the notion of Britishness and religion.
Recognizing the Gift puts twentieth-century Catholic theological conversations on nature and grace, particularly those of Henri de Lubac and Karl Rahner, into dialogue with Continental philosophy, notably the thought of Jean-Luc Marion and Paul Ricoeur.
As celebrations of the five-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's initiation of the most dramatic reform movement in the history of Christianity approach, 47 essays by historians and theologians from 15 countries provide insight into the background and context, the content, and the impact of his way of thought.
From the Greek philosophers to the Postmodernist theories of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty, this authoritative survey encompasses over two thousand years of interaction between philosophical and religious thought.
This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today.
Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure Rome's dominance throughout the Middle Ages and beyond.
In this book, Frances Courtney Kneupper examines the apocalyptic prophecies of the late medieval Empire, which even within the sensational genre of eschatological prophecy stand out for their bitter and violent nature.
Medieval Monasticism is a bibliography meant as a guide to medieval monasticism, giving direction to the most important works in the subject and is prepared by an expert in the field, Dr.
Constance Hoffman Berman presents an indispensable collection of the most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the Middle Ages in the last two decades.
Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the recently discovered "e;liberation story"e; of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Snam Peldren.
This compact, forcefully argued work calls Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and the rest of the so-called 'New Atheists' to account for failing to take seriously the historical record to which they so freely appeal when attacking religion.
The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fath al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fath al-Andalus ("e;The Conquest of al-Andalus"e;), which covers the history of Muslim Spain from the time of the initial conquest in 711 CE until the rise of the Almoravids and unification of the territories of Muslim Spain.
This four-volume work provides a detailed, multicultural survey of established as well as "e;new"e; American religions and investigates the fascinating interactions between religion and ethnicity, gender, politics, regionalism, ethics, and popular culture.
En esta segunda edición revisada y aumentada Nancy Bedford y Guillermo Hansen recorren en diez capítulos los temas centrales de la teología cristiana desde una perspectiva protestante y latina.
Offering a broad and eclectic approach to the experience and activities of early modern women, Challenging Orthodoxies presents new research from a group of leading voices in their respective fields.
Traditional historiography has always viewed Calvin's Geneva as the benchmark against which all other Reformed communities must inevitably be measured, judging those communities who did not follow Geneva's institutional and doctrinal example as somehow inferior and incomplete versions of the original.
Pat Gohn draws on decades of womens ministry experience, her popular Catholic womens podcast Among Women, and her own story as a wife and mother, proclaiming the Churchs compelling vision of every woman: you have dignity, you are gifted, and you have a mission.
