History of religion

Muslims first appeared in the early seventh century as members of a persecuted religious movement in a sun-baked town in Arabia.

Charting the growing religious pluralism of British society, this book investigates the diverse formations of masculinity within and across specific religions, regions and immigrant communities.

How do you let the Spirit work in you to bear good fruit when you're dealing with the never-ending drama of social media, a frustrating coworker, or the aggravating next-door neighbor?

Music in Conflict studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel, where conflict has both shaped and claimed the lives of Palestinians and Jews.

An accessible, vivid and up-to-date student-level introduction to the coinage and history of the Hellenistic world (323–31 BC).

Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific analysis today.

All Things in Common gets behind the "e;communism of the apostles"e; passages in Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-37, using the anthropological categories of "e;social relationship"e; espoused by David Graeber and other anthropologists.

In the wake of 9/11, policy analysts, journalists, and academics have tried to make sense of the rise of militant Islam, particularly its role as a motivating and legitimating force for violence against the United States.

Often, people feel drawn to prayer but are timid and unsure about how to pray.

Pain is universal.

Many congregations and their leaders are discouraged about the future of the church.

The Reverend John Marrant (1755-91) was North America's first Black ordained minister and one of America's earliest Black authors and preachers.

The Universities of Ancient Greece (1912) examines Greek education in the Classical world, from the pre-Alexandrian times to the last three centuries B.

A groundbreaking new history of the origins and evolution of the Anglican liturgy which transforms understanding of the English Reformation.

How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own imagesJews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles.

Dealing with the issue of ecclesiastical censorship and control over reading and readers, this study challenges the traditional view that during the eighteenth century the Catholic Church in Italy underwent an inexorable decline.

Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants invoked saints, and why.

This second installment of the Methodist story, Shaped by Controversy, examines eight of the major controversies that epitomize aspects of Methodism's inter-family dialogue and trauma.

First published in 1932, Indian Caste Customs is an explication on how caste system operates in everyday life.

This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who nursed them.

Peter Martyr was one of the central Dominican saints of the thirteenth century, in some cases eclipsing Dominic himself.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Right from the beginning of humankind, God has never deprived a people of his grace and revelation.

The diary of a man trying to live within his religious faith while dealing with the harsh realities of urban America.

Are science and religion in accord or are they diametrically opposed to each other?

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on the fallen angels.

Seit langem wird vermutet, dass Jahwe, der Gott des Alten Testaments, ursprünglich ein Wettergott vom Typ des syrischen Baal gewesen ist.

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The nature and story of the Christian church is immensely important to theology students and scholars alike.

Maritime Calvinistic Baptist piety emerged from a fusion of revivalism and conversion, and introduced dramatic baptisms by immersion.

This book brings Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars from different fields of knowledge and many places across the globe to introduce/expand the dialogue between the field of liturgy and postcolonial/decolonial thinking.

The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western Asia Minor.

This volume explores primarily late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century efforts to solve the problem of unemployment in the context of the new understandings of 'unemployment'.

Evangelicals in nineteenth-century America had a headquarters at Princeton.

After a half-century of activism, John McConnell, the true founder of Earth Day, here relates his global promotion of peace, justice, and Earth care.

Secularization, as a movement away from a religious orientation to life, is strong in Canada and has influence worldwide.

The book highlights the personal and scientific struggles of Arthur Erich Haas (1884-1941), an Austrian Physicist from a wealthy Jewish middle-class family, whose remarkable accomplishments in a politically hostile but scientifically rewarding environment deserve greater recognition.

This book investigates how minorities contributed to medieval society, comparing these contributions to majority society's perceptions of the minority.

Bringing the study of early modern Christianity into dialogue with Atlantic history, this collection provides a longue duree investigation of women and religion within a transatlantic context.

Timeless Wisdom is a collection of universal texts for study, meditation, and inspiration, selected by Eknath Easwaran, the originator of passage meditation.

In the late fourth century, the world of Christianity was torn apart by debate over the teachings of the third-century theologian Origen and his positions on the incorporeality of God.

Reconceiving Religious Conflict deconstructs instances of religious conflict within the formative centuries of Christianity, the first six centuries CE.

What do educated urban people think about God, and why?

The articles in this volume trace the development of the theory that humanity forms a single world community and that there exists a body of law governing the relations among the members of that community.

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.

Originally published in 1984, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a comprehensive bibliography on the subject of literature and law in the Middle Ages.

The result of four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist compellingly presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, and he boldly broke the customs of his day to involve them in his work.