History of religion

William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of Aristotelian philosophy in the Latin world.

Drawing on the latest research and scholarship, this newly revised and updated edition of Religions of the Silk Road explores the majestically fabled cities and exotic peoples that make up the romantic notions of the colonial era.

A new approach to the moral and intellectual debates provoked by Nazism in Germany, the Holocaust and World War II.

This book is a series of essays in the area of current culture and its defects, Christian religious belief, and other political and philosophical issues.

Die in diesem Band erstmals vollständig edierte Klemens-Biographie der griechischen Kirche ist aus der sogenannten Epitome prior der griechischen Pseudoklementinen, einem aus dem Lateinischen übersetzten Martyrium Clementis und einem ursprünglich griechischen Miraculum Clementis vielleicht schon im fünften, sicher vor dem zehnten Jahrhundert zusammengestellt worden.

This volume takes its title from the first-century Christian catechism called the Didache: "e;Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills .

Theologies of Power and Crisis provides a case study for Eric Wolf's research directive to better comprehend the interplay of cultural (webs of meaning) and material (webs of power) forms of social life.

The followers of the martyred Bohemian priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) formed one of the greatest challenges to the medieval Latin Church.

Rowan Williams explores the essential meaning and purpose of Paul's letters in this beautifully written resource for the Lenten season.

This is volume two in a four-volume edition of primary source materials that document the histories of design across the long nineteenth century.

Fashion in Altermodern China examines key features of women's fashion within the cultural and political context of contemporary China.

This is an extremely wide-ranging text with good prospects in the A level market

The description for this book, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, will be forthcoming.

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis draws together topics and methodologies essential for the socio-cultural, mineralogical, and geochemical analysis of archaeological ceramic.

Why did the Reformation take root in some places and not others?

St Anselm's archiepiscopal career, 1093-1109, spanned the reigns of two kings: William Rufus and the early years of Henry I.

Bitter herbs, salty water, a sweet apple mixture, the shankbone of a lamb--what is the meaning behind these symbolic elements?

Christie and Gauvreau look at the ways in which reformers expanded the churches' popular base through mass revivalism, established social work and sociology in Canadian universities and church colleges, and aggressively sought to take a leadership role in social reform by incorporating independent reform organizations into the church-sponsored Social Service Council of Canada.

In dieser Dissertationsschrift wird das Textproblem des deuterokanonischen Buches Tobit neu aufgerollt.

This original and ambitious book considers the terms of engagement between Christian theology and other religious traditions, beginning with criticism of Christian theology of religions as entangled with European colonial modernity.

This gendered translation of the Benedictine Rule for women in 1517 is also a handbook for women on exercising authority, management skills and the art of good governance, including monastic property and relations with the outside world.

This book explores all aspects of medieval canon law.

This volume collects papers initially written as the plenary addresses for the largest international scholarly conference held in connection with the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth, organized in Geneva by the Institute of Reformation History.

Enter God's Story of Faithfulness to His PeopleThe Christian faith extends beyond our personal experiences, our individual churches, and far beyond our present age.

In Honored by the Glory of Islam Marc David Baer proposes a novel approach to the historical record of Islamic conversions during the Ottoman age and gathers fresh insights concerning the nature of religious conversion itself.

In the seventeenth century many leading poets wrote poems about Christ's infancy, though charm and sweetness were not the leading note.

Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city.

A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe.

This is volume one in a four-volume edition of primary source materials that document the histories of design across the long nineteenth century.

New Brethren in Flanders is the story of the planting and remarkable growth of Brethren churches in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium at the end of the twentieth century.

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

Exploring the Psychosocial and Psycho-spiritual Dynamics of Singleness Among African American Christian Women in Midlife examines the complexities and realities of singleness in individual, familial, and communal contexts.

The recent years have seen an upswing in studies of women in the ancient Near East and related areas.

In the intercessions, the assembly asks God to respond to the needs of the whole world.

This book has its origins in a comparative religions course Burns has taught at the University of Arizona for the past thirty years.

Greek and Roman Jewellery (1961) covers jewellery from the Classical lands from the early Bronze Age to the late Roman period, almost 3,000 years of continuous development and innovation in the craft.