History of religion

An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "e;the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] .

This book offers an original perspective on the emergence of early modern Spain from multi-faith Iberia.

This second volume by Graham Loud focuses on two key centres of the south Italian church in the central Middle Ages.

This book explores the relationship of clergy to Twelve Step programs.

Sagt uns die Bibel, was wir schon wissen?

Is there a gap between the academic study of the Bible and the work of theologians?

This volume, the first in a major new series which will provide authoritative texts of key non-canonical gospel writings, comprises a critical edition, with full translations, of all the extant manuscripts of the Gospel of Mary.

This book continues the work of The Qur'an in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur'an and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur'an's own conversation with the religions and literatures of its day.

If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within?

This study considers sixteenth century evangelicals' vision of a godly commonwealth within the broader context of political, religious, social, and intellectual changes in Tudor England.

Beacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902.

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed.

Nine of the ten essays in this collection appeared first between 1995 and 2005.

The Reformation of the 16th century has always been seen as one of the pivotal events in European history.

Throughout the Hebrew Bible, God guides and saves his people through the words of his prophets.

A narrative history of modern Kabbalah, from the sixteenth century till today, in the general context of modernization.

This is the first full-scale study of interactions between Italy's religious reform and English reformations, which were notoriously liable to pick up other people's ideas.

You are already enough, and you are not too much.

This title, first published in 1985, contains two of Thomas Ball Barratt's influential works; In the Days of the Latter Rain and When the Fire Fell and an Outline of My Life.

Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women.

Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise.

The issue of Judaism's relationship to secular learning and wisdom is one of the most basic concerns of Jewish intellectual history.

The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years.

Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual writings and transforms them into a series of dialogues between two friends, a believer and a nonbeliever.

This third volume of essays by Peter Linehan deals with matters of perennial interest to all historians of medieval Church and State, and in particular to students of the history of medieval Spain and Portugal and of the papacy in the 12th and 13th centuries.

While he is more commonly known for his Trinitiarian works and theology, this study assesses mid-fourth-century bishop Hilary of Poitiers' view of the human condition.

"e;Bless me Father, for I have sinned,"e; says the penitent to open the dialogue in Catholic confessionals across the globe and throughout the ages.

If sexuality is inherently social, the same thing can be said about celibacy.

Grace is the heart of the Christian gospel.

This interdisciplinary study investigates what the Byzantines believed about the fate of the soul after death.

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination.

This book, first published in 1935, collects together material on the origins of religion from two very different sources.

In Teaching to Justice, Citizenship, and Civic Virtue, a group of teachers considers how students learn and what students need in order to figure out what God is requiring of them.

*; Examines how each dimension influences Earth, its levels of creative expression, and the sciences that describe each one*; Provides meditations to open you to the experience of each dimension and all nine dimensions as an integrated whole*; Includes new evidence for the nine dimensions from the supercomputer Blue Brain Project and recently discovered ancient technologyAs revealed by the Pleiadians via renowned author Barbara Hand Clow, Earth holds nine dimensions of consciousness that humans can currently access.

Investigating the impact of Arabic medieval astrological and magical theories on early modern occult philosophy, this book argues that they provided a naturalistic explanation of astral influences and magical efficacy based on Aristotelian notions of causality.

Reid Barbour''s 2002 study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I.

Part storybook, part textbook, part historical overview, Parade of Faith in ebook format presents the history of Christianity in riveting fashion.

Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history''s exceptionalism.

From the Preface:"e;Get real"e; was a slang term that became popular in the 1960's when Michael Hickey was growing up in East Boston.

Während Luther 1521/22 auf der Wartburg war, begann in ganz Kursachsen eine rege Reformtätigkeit.