History of religion

This book provides a study of the manner in which the Roman Catholic Church in France responded to successive revolutions between 1789 and 1870 as well as to the cultural upheaval associated with accelerating socio-economic change.

Studies in the Ecclesiastical and Social History of Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars is John H.

Analysing a period of 'hidden history', this book tracks the fate of the English Jesuits and their educational work through three major international crises of the eighteenth century: A* the Lavalette affair, a major financial scandal, not of their making, which annihilated the Society of Jesus in France and led to the forced flight of exiled English Jesuits and their students from France to the Austrian Netherlands in 1762; A* the universal suppression of the Jesuit order in 1773 and the English Jesuits' remarkable survival of that event, following a second forced flight to the safety of the Principality of Liege; A* the French Revolution and their narrow escape from annihilation in Liege in 1794, resulting in a third forced flight with their students, this time to England.

This volume combines ten papers on various aspects of aging in Canada (which together have been published in a special issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies) with several of the most important and interesting relevant essays from other sources.

Many books have been written about nineteenth-century Oxford theology, but what was happening in Cambridge?

In the early 21st century, Buddhism has become ubiquitous in America and other western nations, moving beyond the original bodhi tree in India to become a major global religion.

The story of the most enigmatic of disciples-now fully revised and updated-from "e;America's leading expert on ancient religious texts from Egypt"e; (The Associated Press).

This book offers a study of what and how people ate in the Iberian Peninsula between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

In the 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer came to Union Theological Seminary looking for a "e;cloud of witnesses.

The First Steps of Your Discipleship Journey .

An engaging account of the life of a nineteenth-century priest.

Gateway to the Heavenly City presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187.

Understanding the senses is indispensable for comprehending the Middle Ages because both a theoretical and a practical involvement with the senses played a central role in the development of ideology and cultural practice in this period.

Caught in the whirlwind of the postindustrial revolution, many members of today's labor force look upon the changing job landscape and feel displaced and devalued.

Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible is the first monograph to treat dress and adornment in biblical literature in the English language.

Originally published in 1983, The Norman Heritage looks at the Norman Conquest as a turning point in English history.

Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "e;The Da Vinci Code.

This book examines the Tudor histories of the English Reformation written in the period 1530-83.

Everyday Thoughts is a devotional for thinking Christians, for those who seek to hear and know God in the present through contemplation on scripture and reality.

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.

Julian, the last pagan emperor of the Roman empire, died in war in 363.

For over a century, the Carmelite Sister Th?

First published in 1961, The Malays reveals the Malay as the inheritor of an ancient and complex civilization made up of Mongolian shamanism; Assyrio-Babylonian and Tantric magic; art motifs from the steppes; Dong-so'n and India; the religions, folklore and literature of Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim; the laws of a peasantry who abandoned democracy for the feudal role of Hindu Rajas, the earthly incarnations of Indra.

This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011.

In The Moral Psychology of Clement of Alexandria, Kathleen Gibbons proposes a new approach to Clement's moral philosophy and explores how his construction of Christianity's relationship with Jewishness informed, and was informed by, his philosophical project.

This volume is a collection of sermons covering the six chief parts of Luther's Catechisms.

The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory.

This volume analyses the causes and consequences of the Jesuit Suppression, one of the most dramatic events in eighteenth-century history.

This book is the first to present a comprehensive historical picture of the modern Catholic concern with the body and sexuality.

The nineteenth-century international religious movement known as the Reveil had a major impact on Protestantism, and particularly on Evangelicalism.

Although Christianity has significantly influenced many of Western civilization's cherished ideals and values, it faces ongoing criticism regarding its truth, goodness, and beauty.

This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century.

The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity.

This festschrift contains original missiological contributions from colleagues and former doctoral students of Dr.

Explores how similarities and differences between humans and animals were understood by medieval theologians, and their significance.

On the Road to Siangyang tells the story of a Swedish immigrant church in America undertaking, soon after its organization, a mission to central China that would last nearly sixty years, from 1890 to 1949, when Christian missionaries had to leave the Chinese Mainland upon the establishment of the People's Republic.

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society.

Originally published in 1922, this translation of French historian Emile Gebhart's work by Hulme gives a detailed religious history of Italy in the middle ages clearly demonstrating Gebhart's expertise in this area.

Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority focuses on the responses of a group of twenty-first-century women to the lives and writings of thirteenth-century beguine mystics, and reveals how the struggle to discover their own inner spiritual authority connects two groups of women across centuries.

A Magnificent Faith explains how and why Lutheranism - a confession that derived its significance from the promulgation of God's Word - became a visually magnificent faith, a faith whose adherents sought to captivate Christians' hearts and minds through seeing as well as through hearing.

The issues of Authority and Governance in the Roman Catholic Church permeate each and every aspect of the Church's identity, teaching, influence, organisation, moral values and pastoral provision.

With more than four decades of experience in ministry, Rev.