History of religion

June O.

The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected.

Cloistered and inaccessible 'brides of Christ'?

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Hermetic spirituality in late antiquity was an experiential practice and personal transformation grounded in powerful techniques for consciousness alteration.

After Paul: The Apostle's Legacy in Early Christianity focuses on the many ways Pauline thought and tradition were reinterpreted, reused, reframed, and reconstructed in the first centuries of Christianity.

During a forty-year period ending in 2002, leaders of major American churches tried to unite their members, ministries, and public service in a new church they named A Church of Christ Uniting.

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Collected Studies CS1062This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of Alexandra F.

The 1920s saw one of the most striking revolutions in manners and morals to have marked North American society, affecting almost every aspect of life, from dress and drink to sex and salvation.

A comprehensive study of the process by which certain martyrs of the early church were transformed into military heroes.

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.

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First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion.

Despite the recent upsurge of interest in comparative political theory, there has been virtually no serious examination of Buddhism by political philosophers in the past five decades.

Der Stellenwert der frühen volkssprachigen Predigt für den theologischen und frömmigkeitsgeschichtlichen Verständnishorizont eines laikalen (Adels-)Publikums wurde bislang unterschätzt.

What are Christians to make of religious diversity?

Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal women.

The body of the mother is both everywhere and nowhere in the Christian imagination.

As Superintendent of Fife, John Winram played a pivotal role in the reform of the Scottish Church.

Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "e;none"e; box.

 This book explores the religious teachings of best-selling Victorian author and former Member of Parliament, Laurence Oliphant (1829 1888).

English Christendom has never been a static entity.

This book explores a striking common feature of pre-modern ruling systems on a global scale: the participation of childless and celibate men as integral parts of the elites.

This New Cambridge Companion explores key issues in the current study of St Paul''s dynamic and demanding theological discourse.

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumJewish Responses to Persecution: 1941-1942 is the third volume in a five-volume set published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that offers a new perspective on Holocaust history.

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease.

This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic.

Is there an answer for suffering?

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives in Old English sermons.

The present study fills a gap in the study of the evangelical movement in Russia by presenting a comprehensive picture of their compassionate ministry during their longest stretch of relative freedom before the 1980s.

Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World (1961) aims to provide a brief but comprehensive outline sketch of Greek and Roman civilization.

Presbyterians often have questions about Presbyterian theology and beliefs that are basic to Christian faith itself.

Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men's and women's shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery.

Death, life, and religious change in Scottish towns c.

A major figure in twentieth-century Christianity, Geoffrey Fisher worked to modernize the Church of England and to develop the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Respected Baptist historian and theologian Bill Leonard takes readers through the theological and practical questions that are important to Baptists.

This book examines the Civil War from the perspective of the northern laity, those religious civilians whose personal faith influenced their views on politics and slavery, helped them cope with physical separation and death engendered by the war, and ultimately enabled them to discern the hand of God in the struggle to preserve the national Union.

How are love and emotion embodied in material form?

First published in 1930.

The online social network phenomenon has forever changed the way we think about ourselves in relation to our neighbors.

Placing topical debates in historical perspective, the essays by leading scholars of history, literature and political science explore issues of difference and diversity, inclusion and exclusion, and faith in relation to a variety of Christian groups, Jews and Muslims in the context of both early modern and contemporary England and America.

Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious belief.

This edited collection examines church-state relations in the European colonies in Africa during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.