History of religion

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Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory.

Taking a fresh and imaginative approach to the topic, Enlightenment Reformation investigates how and why Hutchinsonianism came into being, evolved and eventually ended.

This book is the first major investigation of a subject of seminal importance in the study of church history and archaeology.

Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Islam and Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia.

Karl Barth is widely considered the greatest theologian of the Twentieth Century, exerting a major influence in almost every area of theological thought in both Reformation and Roman Catholic traditions.

Bayle, Jurieu and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique presents a new study of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1696), with special reference to Bayle's polemical engagement with the theologian Pierre Jurieu.

This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources.

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Syncretism has been a part of Christianity from its very beginning, when early Christians expressed Jesus' Aramaic teachings in the Greek language.

This book is a survey of the relationship between the two Celtic and Roman traditions in Merovingian Gaul, Lombard Italy, and the British Isles during the period of the Easter controversy.

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600.

It can be said, almost without exaggeration, that martyrdom has become one of the most pressing theological issues facing the contemporary world.

For the first time, Thomas Oden's Systematic Theology classic series (individually titled The Living God, The Word of Life, and Life in the Spirit) is available in one complete volume.

We live in a world obsessed by luxury.

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas.

This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The disastrous protestant defeat in the Schmalkaldic War (1546-47) and the promulgation of the Ausburg Interim (1548) left the fate of German Protestantism in doubt.

Teaching piety and the highest good have been goals from the beginning of the Academy.

In 1500 Christians knew that God gave them the church to shepherd believers toward salvation and that it was centered at Rome and ruled by a pope.

Originally published in 1988, this biography was the result of 15 years research, including unearthing 70,000 letters and documents among the Stuart Papers which had hitherto lain largely untapped.

How did the constitutional framers envision the role of religion in American public life?

The church is in major decline in the Western world.

In this creative approach to the doctrine of the Trinity, author Veli- Matti Krkkinen focuses on keeping a dynamic balance between the intellectual-doctrinal and spiritual-charismatic approaches as parallel avenues towards theological understanding.

The content of the gospel never changes; however, communicating it constantly fluctuates.

After years of discussion within the field of anthropology concerning how to properly engage with theology, a growing number of anthropologists now want to engage with theology as a counterpart in ethnographic dialogue.

Experimental philosophy was an exciting and extraordinarily successful development in the study of nature in the seventeenth century.

The Canso d'Antioca is a fascinating text which deserves more attention than it has received.

In the early twentieth century, a new generation of liberal professors sought to prove Christianity's compatibility with contemporary currents in the study of philosophy, science, history, and democracy.

This book offers a systematic, chronological analysis of the role played by the human senses in experiencing pilgrimage and sacred places, past and present.

Five people, representing three generations, meet to share some of their deepest thoughts.

The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.

Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious movement in the world, currently estimated to have at least 500 million adherents.

This study uses early Jewish sources to analyze the significance of Day of Atonement and High Priest imagery in the narrative of Simon Peter's threefold denial of Jesus.

No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans.

Richard Hooker and his Early Doctrine of Justification explores the doctrine of justification, the doctrine of faith and grace, and the doctrine of Scripture and use of reason in the early theology of Richard Hooker.

What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?

The differences that divide West from East go deeper than politics, deeper than religion, argues Anthony Pagden.

'This gripping book is destined to become THE book about Andrew Tate' Jon Ronson'A fascinating and disturbing investigation' Ian HislopThe behind-the-scenes story of a four-year investigation into Andrew Tate, exploring how a failed reality TV star turned accused organised criminal managed to become one of the most famous influencers in the world.

Reexamines the first twenty years of the East African revival movement in Uganda, 1935-1955, arguing that through the movement African Christians articulated and developed a unique spiritual lifestyle.