History of religion

Large state temples in ancient Egypt were vast agricultural estates, with interests in mining, trading, and other economic activities.

There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world.

If you have ever looked into the eyes of a parent who is heartbroken over a wayward child, then you have seen one of the worst types of pain imaginable.

Petain's Jewish Children examines the nature of the relationship between the Vichy regime and its Jewish citizens in the period 1940 to 1942.

Applies the ''life history'' of objects approach to China''s prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have existed in the country from its earliest days.

Must reading for anyone feeling too busy or too stressed and seeking to simplify their lifeto listen to the longings of their heart.

Transgression and Redemption in American Fiction is a critical study of classic American novels.

This study of El Cid, first published in English in 1934, is by the leading authority on the medieval history and literature of Spain.

Joel Stepanek grew up believing that humility required shunning success, never accepting praise, and embracing a crummy life so that God would reward him in heaven.

The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the worldConsisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice.

In the Bible, faith is contrasted with sight, not with reason.

In Enchanted Ground, Sharon Hatfield brings to life the true story of a nineteenth-century farmer-turned-medium, Jonathan Koons, one of thousands of mediums throughout the antebellum United States.

This volume consists of five papers selected from a corpus of material researched over the past quarter of a century.

Forges innovative connections between monastic archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on sacred heritage, identity, medieval healing, magic and memory.

Do you enjoy listening to music while driving?

A sweeping history of Muslim identity from its origins in late antiquity to the present How did Muslims across time and place define the line between themselves and their neighbors?

This study, first published in 1969, presents an astute and authoritative depiction of the cultural, religious and secular developments which shook the Roman world in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries AD, much of it under the auspices of the Emperor, Constantine the Great.

For more than a decade the European Seminar in Historical Methodology has debated the history of ancient Israel (or Palestine or the Southern Levant, as some prefer).

The essays in this collection explore a number of significant questions regarding the terms 'radical' and 'radicalism' in early modern English contexts.

Called: Recovering Lutheran Principles for Ministry and Vocation explores vocation and the call to ministry from a Lutheran perspective and reveals their promise for the wider church.

It is October 1592.

Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

The purpose of this book is to present unpublished papers at the cutting edge of research on dialetheism and to reflect recent work on the applications of the theory.

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text.

The scientific method is often assumed to provide particularly secure knowledge.

The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War.

Ausgangspunkt der Darstellung ist die Frage, ob die ältesten Dokumente über das Leben des Propheten Muhammad Frauen in die Gestaltung eines religiösen Bildungsbereichs einbeziehen.

Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was a leading educator and scholar in Jewish studies, specialising in the field of Jewish education in the talmudic period.

Over the past three decades, American evangelical Christians have undergone unexpected, progressive shifts in the area of race relations, culminating in a national movement that advocates racial integration and equality in evangelical communities.

A century before Martin Luther and the Reformation, Jan Hus confronted the official Church and helped to change the face of medieval Europe.

The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology.

Creative tension calls for a dialogical conversation in order to find mutual ground that can be beneficial for both partners.

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia.

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Throughout the Hebrew Bible, strangers are indispensable to the formation of a collective Israelite identity.

The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains.

Protestant reformers found the prophet and biblical prophecy to be exceptionally effective for framing their reforming work under the authority of Scripture-for the true prophet speaks the Word of God alone and calls the people, their worship, and their beliefs and practices back to the Word of God.

Empire and Emancipation explores how the agency of Scottish and Irish Catholics redefined understandings of Britishness and British imperial identity in colonial landscapes.

The first year for any missionary is filled with adventure and trials.

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.

Die Geschichte von Kirche und Christentum seit dem Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges rückt als Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte immer mehr in den Fokus des akademischen und öffentlichen Geschichtsinteresses.

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This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation, and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist.

The Jewish attachment to Zion is many centuries old.