History of religion

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) remains one of the most enigmatic figures of the twentieth century.

Winner of the AASLH Leadership in History AwardFaith, Race, and the Lost Cause is a new history of Richmond's famous St.

We Are So Quick to Say We Want ';More' of God, but Is That Really True?

Apparently, in 1338 and well into 1339, Death showed up for a grand performance at a little village of Nestorian Christians.

The first three decades of Bourbon rule in France coincided with a period of violent fragmentation followed by rapid renewal within the French Catholic community.

The Reformation of the sixteenth century shattered the unity of medieval Christendom, and the resulting fissures spread to the corners of the earth.

Irenaeus' theology of the Holy Spirit is often highly regarded amongst theologians today, but that regard is not universal, nor has an adequate volume of literature supported it.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology.

This landmark study of American religion, recipient of the National Religious Book Award in 1976, is being brought back into print with an updated bibliography.

The High Middle Ages were remarkable for their coherent sense of 'Christendom': of people who belonged to a homogeneous Christian society marked by uniform rituals of birth and death and worship.

Brian Doyle was a one-of-a-kind author who wrote one-of-a-kind prayers about everyday subjects that help readers change the way they see the world.

Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period.

When Jesus was five he killed a boy, or so reports the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.

In this stirring book, William H.

Every Sunday around the world, Christians offer money and in-kind gifts to the church, traditionally known as alms.

First published in 1998, this book describes the surviving medieval remains there and the far more numerous manor houses and castles owned by the bishops, as well as their London houses.

In the early Middle Ages (ninth to eleventh centuries), Italy became the target of Muslim campaigns.

The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding.

Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature.

Originally published in 1939.

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth.

An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political livesThe Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals.

Originally published in 1990, The Politics of Ethnic Pressure examines and evaluates the lobbying activities of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) between 1906 and 1917.

Religion, Ethnicity and Xenophobia in the Bible looks at some of the Bible's most hostile and violent anti-foreigner texts and raises critical questions about how students of the Bible and ancient Near East should grapple with "e;ethnicity"e; and "e;foreignness"e; conceptually, hermeneutically and theologically.

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell.

The continuation of The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales 940–1216 (1972).

This volume includes sources relating to a range of social and cultural contexts, including the proliferation of natural history crazes (ferns, aquaria, orchids, etc); debates about the social and environmental impacts of changing land use in town and country; debates about demographics, population, and resources inspired by Thomas Malthus; attempts to preserve landscapes (e.

Borden reveals the ways in which many mainstream Protestants worked to maintain preferential treatment for Christians in common law, state constitutions, and federal practices, even attempting through interpretation and amendment to alter the meaning of the U.

The most fruitful and most profound understandings of vision and visioning processes are not in organizational theories or management techniques.

Thirty years ago John Hull wrote "e;What Prevents Christian Adults from Learning?

There are thirty-eight ethical statements-principles throughout the seven chapters of A Theology of Justice.

In early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town paper from the margins of society became a key player in Urdu journalism.

The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming the new bishop, and not another.

Professor Somerville deals here with the history of Latin Christianity at a crucial time - the century of the Gregorian reform movement and of the Investiture conflict between the papacy and the empire.

The received wisdom about the nature of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire is that Sultan Mehmed II reestablished the Patriarchate of Constantinople as both a political and a religious authority to govern the post-Byzantine Greek community.

Thinking in Public provides a probing and provocative meditation on the intellectual life and legacy of Jacques Roumain.

A publication with guidance that can be adapted to any individual circumstances and a centuries old, proven guide on how to live in community with others.

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.

This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice.

This book is the first detailed discussion of the political history of the Scottish Church in the reign of James VI (1567-1625).

Engaging Bonhoeffer documents the extraordinary impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffers life and writing on later thought.

This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

First published in 1999, the world of Christian radicalism in the first half of the nineteenth century is reconstructed here with thorough research by Eileen Groth Lyon.

As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Professor Eamon Duffy is preeminent.