History of religion

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This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

The guerilla war waged between the IRA and the crown forces between 1919 and 1921 was a pivotal episode in the modern history of Ireland.

This first volume of A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought provides a window into the early Protestant world, and the ways in which Protestants wrestled with politics and religion in the wake of the Reformation.

This book examines the place of 'saints' and sanctity in a self-consciously modern age, and argues that Protestants were as fascinated by such figures as Catholics were.

In diesem packenden historischen Werk entführt Diego de Colon die Leser in die faszinierende Welt der Freimaurerei und des Papsttums.

'The Prophet' is a truly ground breaking inspirational book of poetry consisting of a series of prose poems.

The Book of Jubilees, or, as it is sometimes called, "the little Genesis," purports to be a revelation given by God to Moses through the medium of an angel, and containing a history, divided up into jubilee-periods of forty-nine years, from the creation to the coming of Moses.

The Cloud of Unknowing draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form.

The first non-Western writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature Rabindranath Tagore was the literary voice of India.

The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief.

Collected in this omnibus edition are three classic works exploring the mystical nature of God.

Rituals reflecting Shinto culture and beliefs, many of them drawing on the mythology of Shinto as reflected in the earlier Kojiki.

In ''The Wars of the Jews'' Flavius Josephus gives us valuable insight into the first Jewish Roman War and the rebellions that followed thereafter.

Ralph Waldo Trine was an influential member of the New Thought movement.

Ralph Waldo Trine was an important New Thought writer.

It is given to us to reveal our soul, that which is One in us, which is eternal.

Prentice Mulford was one of the leaders of the New Thought Movement.

Prentice Mulford was one of the leaders of the New Thought Movement.

In the Spiritual Canticle St.

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism.

IT WAS through Saint Germain''s assistance that I was privileged to have the experiences recorded in this series of books, and that permission has been granted for them to be put in a form which can be given to the public.

The Metaphysical Bible Dictionary was Charles Fillmore''s crowning achievement.

No class of works is received with more suspicion, I had almost said derision, than those which deal with Science and Religion.

In Mystic Christianity-Religion, Philosophy and Science are known to be one and the same thing.

The purpose of this book is to bring together in one convenient volume some of the best devotional verse the English language affords, and thus to make available to present day Christians a rich spiritual heritage which the greater number of them for various reasons do not now enjoy.

Here are the complete prophecies of Nostradamus.

The Ascent of Mount Carmel is the third major work of St.

The Interior Castle, or The Mansions, (Spanish: El Castillo Interior or Las Moradas) was written by St.

Isis Unveiled is a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology.

''Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to the Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern'' is a 1915 book by James E.

Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, of England, only five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, the work is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in England during the ongoing period of religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants.

The purpose of Life from the very beginning has been dominion-dominion over every adverse circumstance.

Prentice Mulford was one of the leaders of the New Thought Movement.

Here is the book that converted C.

In The Changed Life, Henry Drummond instructs us on how we may change our lives to be more like Christ.

The Book of Enoch is the most notable extant apocalyptic work outside the canonical Scriptures.

Once upon a time, Psychics and Healers were revered.

Reader's Choice Award WinnerMost Christians have heard a familiar description of the Samaritan woman in John 4: she was a sinner, an adulteress, even a prostitute.

The doctrine of deification or theosis is typically associated with the Eastern Orthodox tradition.

By 1700, Guatemala's capital was a mixed-race "e;city of women.

A major problem in the local church today is lack of leadership.

Découvrez le monde fascinant du folklore japonais, où mythes et légendes prennent vie !

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Pope Francis has thoroughly re-engaged the Catholic Church with the modern world, by tackling the difficult and urgent questions that we face as a civilization, in order to illuminate the path to change.

In this international bestseller Pope Francis explores the idea of happiness and shows how we can bring more meaning and purpose to our lives.

'Bold, dazzling and provocative' - Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'This book uncovers what was lost when Christianity won' - The TimesIn The Darkening Age, historian Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.