History of religion

Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power is an exploration of the many faces of the Goddess Durga in ancient and contemporary culture.

In this volume Professor Gaudemet examines the growth and development of the law of the Church.

Focusing on the Roman west, this book examines the rituals of cursing, their cultural contexts, and their impact on the lives of those who practised them.

Early Christian spirituality is a topic of enduring fascination today among scholars and general readers alike.

Drawing on the fields of design history and the history of science, this book examines the important role that botanical science played in the emergence of Victorian design theory.

Examines how the form and function of the Covenants were shorn of religious implications and repurposed, serving a pluralistic vision of the role of religion in politics and public life.

The Middle Ages in Western Europe extended from roughly 500 to 1500 c.

Myths have intrigued scholars throughout history.

This compelling collection tells five stories of young Australian women who served in times of armed conflict in early twentieth-century China.

This collection of essays by eight leading scholars is a landmark event in the study of crusading in the late middle ages.

Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century considers the development of Qur'anic interpretation and highlights modern debates around new approaches to interpretation.

The concept of vocation in an early modern setting calls to mind the priesthood or religious life in a monastery or cloister; to be "e;called"e; by God meant to leave the concerns of the world behind.

Redeeming Beauty explores the richness of orthodox Christian tradition, both Western and Eastern, in matters of 'sacral aesthetics' - a term used to denote the foundations, production and experience of religiously relevant beauty.

Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students.

Christianity must be understood not as a religion of private salvation, but as a gospel movement of universal compassion, which transforms the world in the power of God's truth.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Orientalische Kultur und europäisches Mittelalter" verfügbar.

A comprehensive, two-volume reassessment of the quests for the historical Jesus that details their origins and underlying presuppositions as well as their ongoing influence on today's biblical and theological scholarship.

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Across early-modern Europe the confessional struggles of the Reformation touched virtually every aspect of civic life; and nowhere was this more apparent than in the universities, the seedbed of political and ecclesiastical society.

Produces a new picture of monastic economies in Egypt and Palestine using current research and crossing traditional disciplinary divides.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val ry wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit.

There is no such thing as a naked spirituality.

`Judas' is synonymous with `traitor'.

Discover the profound wisdom and timeless teachings of Catholicism with The Catholicism Answer BookThis authoritative and accessible guide presents the answers to the 300 most commonly asked questions about the Catholic faith, making it the ultimate resource for both believers and seekers.

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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague and the intellectual and cultural dynamism of the Middle Ages.

Think of all the senses you use when you pick up a Bible.

Health Care Ethics is a comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology.

Los cristianos ocultos japoneses que sobrevivieron desde el siglo xvii hasta nuestros días La expansión de la fe católica en Japón emprendida a partir de 1549 por el jesuita Francisco Javier se fue arraigando tan profundamente en tierra nipona, que fue considerada una amenaza para las autoridades de esa nación.

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

The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest.

Prophets and Witches offers an exploration of female prophecy and witchcraft during the political and religious upheavals of the English Revolutionary period from 1640 to 1660.

Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love.

We are not even sure of her name: it might have been Salome; it might have been Herodias, like that of her mother.

How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western philosophyPyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC.

The iconic landscape of the American Southwest reveals the luminescent Mitten rock formations, looming rock arches, and vast sagebrush oceans made vivid and memorable by writer Tony Hillerman, artist Georgia O'Keefe, and director John Ford.

This book is one of the first to present a definitive history of the Christian Ashram Movement.

A panoramic vision of Islamic cultures and societies from the origins of Islam to 1800.

This book critically explores ways in which our understanding of late medieval liturgy can be enhanced through present-day enactment.

The poet and preacher John Donne (1572-1631) was one of the most influential authors of early modern England.

How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in shaping the ideology of right-wing ZionismBy the late 1930s, as many as fifty thousand Polish Jews belonged to Betar, a youth movement known for its support of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism.

';For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them,' Jesus said in Matthew 18:20.

This book, first published in 1925, aims to demonstrate the ultimate roots of the many religious ideas of the Hebrews in Canaanite thought.