History of religion

This book is a sequel to Nathan Ron's Erasmus and the "e;Other.

Hockey-playing Catholic bishop Thomas J.

The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century.

How the Jewish culture war over Kabbalah beganThe Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition.

In the early medieval world, the way people remembered the past changed how they saw the present.

This book uses Karl Barth's Der Romerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe.

In this book of meditations on the meaning of the Rosary, Rev.

Commitment to a life of prayer and community can prove to be a great help for those involved in politics.

Have you ever wished to recite scripture quotes off the top of your head?

The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other.

This volume examines the French Revolution's relationship with and impact on religious communities and religion in a transnational perspective.

Develops perspectives of the foundational doctrine of creation from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, exploring their relevance in the modern world.

First published in 1880, this is a fascinating collection of essays by the nineteenth-century theologian and historian George P.

Western missionaries in China were challenged by something they could not have encountered in their native culture; most Westerners were Christian, and competitions in their own countries were principally denominational.

Scholars of Daoism in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) have paid particular attention to the interaction between the court and certain Daoist priests and to the political results of such interaction; the focus has been on either emperors or Daoist masters.

Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identityMuslim modernism was a political and intellectual movement that sought to redefine the relationship between Islam and the colonial West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The humanities offer insights into the highest (and lowest) capabilities of our own natures and, at their best, they function as prophetic champions of human dignity and as inspired celebrants of beauty.

The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain examines the grammatical, exegetical, philosophical and mystical interpretations of the Bible that took place in Spain during the medieval period.

"e;A manual for living with defeat"e; -TabletIt is no more possible to think about religion without sin than it is to think about a garden without dirt.

An "e;illuminating"e; and "e;richly descriptive"e; (New York Times Book Review) portrait of contemporary Israel, revealing the diversity of this extraordinary yet volatile nation by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life.

The church needs to do a better job of speaking theologically to single Christians.

Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent.

This volume examines the development of the non-liturgical parts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis' Haggadot.

Through violent incursions by the Vikings and the spread of Christianity, medieval Ireland maintained a distinctive Gaelic identity.

Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify.

During the middle ages, belief in God was the single more important principle for every person, and the all-powerful church was the most important institution.

Divided into four parts-Earth, Air, Fire, and Water-this book takes an elemental approach to the study of religion and ecology.

A study of the surprising functions of Buddhist statues, which helped disseminate Buddhist beliefs among the populace in Tenth- and Eleventh-century Japan.

During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed.

Every night of revival--1945 to 1956--the Evangelist and his family carried the mostly Appalachian folks to whom they ministered on up to a higher place.

Suicide, depression, eating disorders, and other mental health illnesses have dramatically increased among adolescents in recent decades.

Another Look: One God and Three Faiths is a unique study of sacred history and monotheism.

This book introduces students to Christian mysticism and modern critical responses to it.

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monotheistic.

Recounts a Jewish-born Catholic priest''s effort to prove he was Catholic to anyone who doubted him, including himself.

Is the Western world really post-Christian, or does Christianity simply need a reinterpretation?

The Social Life of the Early Modern Protestant Clergy provides unexpected new insights on the lives of the early modern English and Swedish clergy through case studies and broader surveys.

In January 2017 Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, said that it looks as if the world is preparing for war.

With its increasingly secular and religiously diverse population Australia faces many challenges in determining how the state and religion should interact.

The Great Exhibition of 1851 is routinely portrayed as a manifestly secular event which was confined to celebrating the success of science, technology, and manufacturing in the mid-Victorian age.

Ask a young Catholic why they are walking away from the Church and one of the main reasons is usually a perceived conflict between science and Christianity.

Who Are the Mormons?

The division of European society and culture along a North/South axis was one of the most decisive and enduring developments in the modern world.

How ancient thinkers grappled with competing conceptions of divine lawIn the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present.