History of religion

An exploration of the increasingly popular phenomenon of solitary practice within contemporary paganismSolitary Pagans is the first book to explore the growing phenomenon of contemporary Pagans who practice alone.

Learning the ABCs: Apologetics, the Bible, and Creation is a source of information that has taken the author nearly forty-four years to accumulate.

On the tenth anniversary of Canada's involvement, a leading journalist offers a fascinating assessment of Canada's past and present role in the Afghan war Of the 33,000 troops under NATO command in Afghanistan in October 2006, 12,000 were Americans and 2,500 were Canadians.

An Italian American investigates his family's mixed religious roots in northern Italy and Sicily in this fascinating memoir.

Wisdom in Exile provides a new insight into Buddhism's encounter with Western culture and the Western mind in the early 21st century.

Many believe that naturalistic macroevolution is how complex life began here on earth.

Religious people have been known to push their beliefs onto others; in fact several religions require it.

In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

The Sonderkommando the special squad of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history.

Between 1971 and 1996 the late John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) wrote a series of ten essays revisiting the Jewish-Christian schism in which he argued that, properly understood, Jesus did not reject Judaism, Judaism did not reject Jesus, and the Apostle Paul's universal mandate for the salvation of the nations is best understood not as a product of Hellenization, but rather in the context of his Jewish heritage.

In a time when organized religion is suffering an identity crisis, the author of The Last Presbyterian?

For the first time classic readings on Jesus from outside of Christianity have been brought together in one volume.

A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and culture Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialism Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible and increase in scale and complexity over time Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theories in archaeology and related natural and biological sciences Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporary perspectives from materiality, material culture studies and phenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology, cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor Network Theory and complexity theory

A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and culture Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialism Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible and increase in scale and complexity over time Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theories in archaeology and related natural and biological sciences Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporary perspectives from materiality, material culture studies and phenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology, cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor Network Theory and complexity theory

In the two centuries before the Quiet Revolution, the people of Quebec exercised a higher degree of independence from the Catholic Church than is often presumed.

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.

On the tenth anniversary of Canada's involvement, a leading journalist offers a fascinating assessment of Canada's past and present role in the Afghan war Of the 33,000 troops under NATO command in Afghanistan in October 2006, 12,000 were Americans and 2,500 were Canadians.

Analyses the Bacchic gold tablets from Greek mystery cults as products of performance culture and early Greek poetry.

Giving clear messages, Jesus taught pragmatically about lifes situations as he saw them through metaphorical parables.

The identification of the Seventeenth Karmapa has been mired in controversy.

The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world.

Religion is a funny thing.

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization.

'A Garland of Gold' is a history of the early masters of the great Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, such as Saraha, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa and their spiritual heirs.

An exploration of the increasingly popular phenomenon of solitary practice within contemporary paganismSolitary Pagans is the first book to explore the growing phenomenon of contemporary Pagans who practice alone.

Judy Willey, sometimes called an ear in the body of Christ, is now putting her book, Pearls for the Saints, We'll Fly Away, in a second printing.

David L.

The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically.

Buddhism is said to be universal because it transcends all notions of time and culture.

This is the definitive African text on ecological ethics, African environmental spirituality, a theology of creation, and climate justice.

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba seeks to explain how a series of historical events that occurred in West Africa from the mid-1790s - including Afonja's rebellion, the Owu wars, the Fulani-led jihad, and the migrations to Egbaland - had an impact upon life in cities and plantations in western Cuba and Bahia.

In a time when organized religion is suffering an identity crisis, the author of The Last Presbyterian?

Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a beleaguered group of followers of a crucified rabbi became the founders of a world-changing faith.

In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, explains what is going wrong in his society by referring to Islamic history and beliefs.

This book explores some of Noah's trial as he builds the ark,survives the Great Flood, and restarts mankind in Sumeria.

This is the history of Jesus Christ as never told before, told in a time line sequence from before his birth to the time he left.

The discovery of a limestone burial box with the inscription "e;James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus"e; set the world of biblical archaeology abuzz.

In her uniquely crafted memoir In the Morning .

This book is a non-fiction historical event that occurred in Huntsville, Alabama doing the Civil War and it's beginning in a graveyard there.

This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world?

Students learn about the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and discover how just 16 words in the U.