History of religion

This volume presents the findings of a number of empirical and theoretical studies on education about religions and worldviews (ERW) conducted in the Western societies of Britain, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

Long before he left the television news industry, Mark Kelley was concerned about the trends he saw developing in the business.

This focused concentration and celebration of Anglican life could not be more timely.

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.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

Adults in your church, small group, or other Christian organization are silently suffering the tragic consequences of having been sexually abused as children or youth.

Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice--the writing of incantations on amulets--changed in an increasingly Christian context.

In Immanuel Kant als dem führenden Vertreter der philosophischen Aufklärung und dem Geisterseher Emanuel Swedenborg stehen sich zwei auf den ersten Blick ganz gegensätzliche Repräsentanten des 18.

A quarter-century after writing the acclaimed The Celtic Way, Ian Bradley, one of the foremost experts on the spiritual beliefs and practices of the indigenous Christian communities in the British Isles in the early Middle Ages, revisits the original sources and makes a substantial reappraisal of Celtic spirituality.

First Published in 1952, The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought unravels the historical background to some of Richard Hooker's leading ideas.

Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts.

On the north end of London lies an old nonconformist burial ground named Bunhill Fields.

The Pentecostal mission in Palestine is a virtually unknown episode in the history of Pentecostalism.

Essays challenging the orthodox opinion of anchorites as entirely divorced from the world around them.

Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.

While Willy has neither the multi-generational sweep nor the moral gravitas of I.

Die Bildung von Diaspora-Religionsgemeinschaften mit kleiner Mitgliederanzahl ist in der globalisierten Welt ein Phänomen von großer Aktualität.

With its mixture of American evangelicalism, popular psychology and show business, Moral Re-Armament attracted men and women on six continents.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to Calvin by a team of leading international scholars.

Die 100 wichtigsten Dinge – Ein unverzichtbares Kompendium für unsere ZeitWas sind die wirklich essenziellen Dinge in unserer Welt?

This volume offers new insights on Jewish-Gentile relations and the evolution of belief in the early Jesus movement, suggesting that the New Testament reflects the early stages of a Gentile challenge to the authority and legitimacy of the descendants of Jesus' disciples and first followers as the exclusive guardians and interpreters of his legacy.

Mormonism and the Emotions: An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts is an introductory Latterday Saint (LDS) theology of emotion that is both canonically based and scientifically informed.

Over the course of his career, Luther H.

Drawing on a rich, yet untapped, source of Scottish autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight into the nature and extent of early-modern religious narratives.

Groundbreaking research that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism "e;A bravura study.

A major study of the impact of the Swiss RTveil (Awakening) on British evangelicals in the 1820s.

Drawing on the writings of German pastor-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jennifer M.

This original, provocative study, first published in 1973, presents a new method of interpretation of mythology, and reveals the wide-ranging implications of this universal phenomenon for many disciplines.

This work explores a perennial question that Christians who are called to teach must consider: So what makes our teaching Christian?

This practical book has given tens of thousands of clinicians and students a comprehensive introduction to mindfulness and its clinical applications.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha addresses issues and themes that arise in the study of early Christian apocryphal literature.

This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity.

Over the first four decades of the Reformation, hundreds of songs written in popular styles and set to well-known tunes appeared across the German territories.

What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism?

History often identifies the Middle Ages as barbaric, superstitious, and bloody.

This book confronts the key questions surrounding comparative secularism in historical perspective.

This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice.

This book tells the story of how early modern poets used the theological concept of grace to reimagine their political communities.

This book explores how madness was defined and diagnosed as a condition of the mind in the Middle Ages and what effects it was thought to have on the bodies, minds and souls of sufferers.

How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency?

Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.

The life and work of Jerome of Prague have been overlooked outside Czech historiography, but represent an important chapter in the understanding of late medieval European history.

How can sixty-eight words change the world?

In an era where resilience and faith were essential for survival, Judith's story shines as a beacon of courage and spiritual triumph.