History of religion

This is the first annotated critical edition of works of Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), a writer recognized by literary critics, historians, and theologians as one of the most important figures in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

"e;As Canadian as the maple leaf"e; is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925.

The essays in Creed and Culture combine narrative elements with historical analysis to examine the experience of English-speaking Catholics in the light of social categories such as ethnicity, gender, and class.

In 1974 nearly 3,000 evangelicals from 150 nations met at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.

Human beings tend to romanticize history or idealize historical figures.

Was verbindet die alten sumerischen Mythen der Anunnaki mit modernen Berichten über Sternenmenschen?

Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present.

In this book Dan Dunn proposes that the biblical theme of life is extremely important and thus provides a helpful foundation for the theory and practice of evangelism.

Preaching to Nazi Germany explores the history of Confessing Church preachers engagement with the Nazi regime through an analysis of their sermons.

This volume is a biblical theological critique of the Apostles' Creed and a development of the role of the Holy Spirit in the church, the world, and the personal experience of Christian faith.

In Isaiah 9:6, a divine utterance is given to us using four royal titles--Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.

This is the first book length assessment in English of the impact of Karl Barth's theology in Britain.

In the 1960s, the Second Vatican Council enacted the most sweeping changes the Catholic Church had seen in centuries.

Christian Science is one of the most unique and controversial of American religions, but there has never been a history of this influential metaphysical group, best known for its healing through prayer.

Six-year-old Josef is tormented by bullies.

Here for the first time in print is the story of a small group who dared to confront Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich with the love of Jesus Christ.

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.

La intención de este libro es relatar la historia de una convulsión cuyo impacto marcó una época.

This book examines how issues of nationalism, national identity and belonging played out in a multi-religious setting during the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination.

This revisionist study challenges the received opinion that in its earliest manifestations Christianity was a form of religiosity opposed both on principle and in fact to the use of pictures.

Shortlisted for the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion - Constructive-Reflective Studies Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book AwardWinner of the Borsch-Rast Book Prize & Lectureship An Oxford Alumni Book of the Month pickWhile place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments, assemblages of souvenirs, and music?

Focusing on the interaction between teachers and scholars, this book provides an intimate account of "e;ragged schools"e; that challenges existing scholarship on evangelical child-saving movements and Victorian philanthropy.

As a religious and social phenomenon Methodism engages with a number of disciplines including history, sociology, gender studies and theology.

Catherine Pepinster charts the relationship between the British and the papacy in the modern era, looking at how this relationship is coloured by its turbulent past.

Bestselling author and beloved retreat leader Joyce Rupp has offered companionship and gentle guidance throughout the seasons in such books as May I Have This Dance?

John Henry Newman is often described as 'the Father of the Second Vatican Council'.

Across the ancient and medieval literature of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, one finds references to the antediluvian sage Enoch.

It is only in the years since Vatican II that the new thinking about Catholic education has crystalised into shape.

Fashion is intimately tied to the material world.

This book explores Roman Catholic female missionaries and their placement in colonial and postcolonial India.

Das Stadtkloster Zürich ist eine Innovation urbaner und christlicher Spiritualität.

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This title was first published in 2002: JA rg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included DArer, Cranach, GrAnewald, Altdorfer, and, in his own city of Augsburg, Hans Burgkmair the Elder.

This book offers an original interpretation of the origin and early reception of the most fundamental claim of Christianity: Jesus' resurrection.

Volume 1 of The Annotated Luther series contains writings that defined the roots of reform set in motion by Martin Luther, beginning with the Ninety-Five Theses (1517) through The Freedom of a Christian (1520).

This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Nazif's Al-Ta'rikh al-Mansuri.