History of religion

Strange Histories is an exploration of some of the most extraordinary beliefs that existed in the late Middle Ages through to the end of the seventeenth century.

Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of early literature provides the roots for understanding religious practices.

How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam?

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide.

An introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine, from the destruction of Solomon''s temple to the Muslim conquest.

The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon.

This book introduces readers to the Presbyterian movement in the United States as told by those who lived through and contributed to its history.

From 1962 to 1965, in perhaps the most important religious event of the twentieth century, the Second Vatican Council met to plot a course for the future of the Roman Catholic Church.

If the Bible is allowed to be the standard by which blacks and whites determine truth, then freedom from this moral and racial malaise will be the outcome; for as Jesus taught, the truth has a unique capacity of making people free.

Leo the Great was the beneficiary of the consolidation of the power of the papacy in Rome and the Christianization of the city over the course of the preceding century.

English Psalms in the Middle Ages, 1300-1450 explores vernacular translation, adaptation, and paraphrase of the biblical psalms.

Das Werk des Methodius von Olympus (gest.

Bestsellerautorin Stormie Omartian lädt mit 365 Gebeten in ihrer gewohnt unkomplizierten Art dazu ein, mit Gott ins Gespräch zu kommen.

Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores the richly detailed story of Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat who renounced her staggering wealth to lead a life of ascetic renunciation.

The Countryside of Hospitaller Rhodes 1306-1423 explores the main themes of settlement, population and defence of the countryside of Rhodes from 1306 to 1423, approximately halfway through the period of Hospitaller rule.

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

Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn.

Der Melanchthonschüler und Universitätsprofessor David Chytraeus (1531–1600) ist der Wissenschaft als Verfasser eines evangelischen Katechismus bekannt.

Gabriel offers a startling new look at Judaism and Christianity by attempting to trace their historical theological roots, not to the revelations of God, but to the common theological ancestor, the religions of ancient Egypt.

This book investigates the debates around religion and science at the influential Victoria Institute.

Edwin Hatch provided a colorful portrait of the religious world to which Justin Martyr belonged: "e;The main subject-matter of .

This work is a study and translation of the testimony given by witnesses at the canonization hearings of St.

Un jueves de manana en 1981, cuatro mil campesinos, huyendo un escuadron de la muerte salvadoreno patrocinado por los Estados Unidos, trastabillo bajando una ladera por un monte cubierto de follaje, hacia el Rio Lempa.

Presenting a fundamental re-thinking of Asian theology, this book focuses on theological indigenization in Asia in light of the postcolonial theory of resistance advanced by Homi K.

How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries?

In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay examines the logical consistency and coherence of Extended Conciliar Christology-the Christological doctrine that results from conjoining Conciliar Christology, the Christology of the first seven ecumenical councils of the Christian Church, with five additional theses.

Two centuries before Christ, the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes experimented with the lever.

A fresh approach to the works and manuscripts of this influential monk, whose writings synthesised some of the finest minds of the period.

This insightful book critically reviews and presents an accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the most celebrated modern psychoanalysts, Michael Eigen.

A rich account of the long history of Black religion from the dawn of Western colonialism to the rise of the national security paradigm.

This volume is the fifth of a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century.

From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms.

Minoans, Philistines, and Greeks (1930) presents a historical narrative of the fortunes of the Aegean people, including invaders of and fugitives from the Aegean area, from the end of the fifteenth to the end of the tenth century B.

Our current image of the Christian population of al-Andalus after AD711 reflects the way history has been written.

Religion mattered to the prehistoric Southwestern people, just as it matters to their descendents today.

Published posthumously, this study is thoroughly rewarding and will increase McCabe's reputation as one of Britain's finest theologians of recent years.

This book provides an introduction to the Mediterranean world in which the early Christian apostles moved.

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.