History of religion

The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire.

Artistic representations were of significant value to early Christian communities.

The introduction of Christianity by missionaries in North-East India, without ignoring the positive contribution, failed to provide a sound theological foundation for the people of this region in their quest for identity and liberation.

Old St Paul's and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul's and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providing important insights into the Cathedral's medieval institution.

AUFSTIEG UND NIEDERGANG DER RÖMISCHEN WELT (ANRW) ist ein internationales Gemeinschaftswerk historischer Wissenschaften.

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Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically.

Martin Luther's nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg was a pivotal moment in the birth of what would become known as the Reformation.

Scholars from several fields tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar.

Provides new perspectives on the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning.

Crusades covers the seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history.

While the author was still a student at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda (1968/69), she realized how important women are, in the society and in the church.

Henry Barrow and John Greenwood are the fathers of Elizabethan Separatism.

Das Standardwerk über das Geschäft mit NS-Raubkunst.

This book offers an examination of an expanding set of options for being Jewish in contemporary American society.

This book focuses on Anglican Confirmation in theology, liturgy, and practice from 1820 to 1945.

This book uncovers the Jesuits' mystic theological interpretation in the translation of the Book of Changes (the Yijing) in their mission in China.

Established in 1542, the Roman Inquisition operated through a network of almost fifty tribunals to combat heretical and heterodox threats within the papal territories.

In Living with Conflict: A Challenge to a Peace Church, Susan Robson explores the discomforts and denials that can arise when an organization committed to doing good suspects that it is not living up to its declared aims.

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The Hermeneutics of Tradition presents the latest scholarship on tradition as a concept and reality in the development of Christian cultures.

Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was one of the most remarkable, significant and colourful figures in seventeenth-century England.

This book examines the perspectives of American liberalism and conservatism in the new millennium-their general political and social philosophy and their positions in leading public issue areas-and evaluates them in light of Catholic social teaching.

The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia.

King Josiah of Judah is a figure of extraordinary importance for the history of Israel.

Examines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the history of Christianity.

This collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the evolution of post-reformation religious communities.

Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women.

This book provides a more rational and systematic explanation for the origin and evolution of the Chinese narrative tradition, based on studies of Chinese literary classics, local culture and items such as bronze wares and porcelain vessels with "e;portrayed stories.

Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world.

In Christian history spiritual awakenings are a recurring and important phenomenon.

Have you ever wondered where Jesus might worship if he came to earth for a visit?

In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.

Does God use flawed people despite their shortcomings?

We do not have many definitions of Christianity from late antiquity, but among the few extant is the brief statement of Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 CE) that it is "e;mimesis of the divine nature.

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At just over a century old, the Pentecostal Movement accounts for over 500 million believers worldwide and continues to grow.

In recent decades historians have emphasized just how dynamic and varied early modern Europe was.

Between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, the social and cultural worlds of medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean were transformed by the religious impetus of the crusades.

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Central Himalayan region of Kumaon, Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment draws on oral and written narratives, stories, testimonies, and rituals told and performed in relation to the "e;God of Justice,"e; Goludev, and other regional deities.

How did Christian missions happen in the early church from AD 100 to 750?

John Knox ranks among the great leaders of the Reformed tradition.

Throughout the Hebrew Bible, God guides and saves his people through the words of his prophets.

Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "e;technique"e; and a "e;science"e; that aims to understand the nature of meaning.

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