History of religion

The Hussite Chronicle is the most important single narrative source for the events of the early Hussite movement.

Die erst seit 1987 der Forschung offen stehenden Bittschriften von Männern und Frauen aller Stände und jeden Alters an den Papst in Rom erschliessen eine ganz neue Quelle für unsere Kenntnisse vom Spätmittelalter und der Renaissance: Hier kommen Menschen zu Wort, von denen in ihrer Heimat fast nie eine Spur geblieben ist, deren Sorgen und Nöte uns die römische Überlieferung indes erhalten hat.

This is the first-ever index of the first line of every stanza of all the poems and hymns in the publications of John and Charles Wesley, as well as those of other authors included in their publications.

From divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition as we know it.

A Leading Catholic Teacher Offers a Biblical Theology of MarriageThe Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word.

Included in this bibliography, originally published in 1989, are books, pamphlets, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections, published for the most part since 1900, which present Catholic development in the nineteenth-century as its major theme.

This is the first volume in a series of three exploring modern Chinese theology.

Reflexión sobre el mensaje y misión del Opus Dei, que ayuda a entender cual es su contribución dentro de la Iglesia católica.

The Jesuit Relations, a series of annual reports produced between 1632 and 1673 detailing the experiences of Society of Jesus missionaries in what is now Eastern Canada, have long been an influential source on the history of New France and encounters between European settlers and Indigenous Peoples.

This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures.

To many medieval Europeans north of the Pyrenees, the Iberian Kingdom of LeA n-Castile was remote and unfamiliar.

This multifaceted work contextualizes Jesus in religion and culture by bringing together articles on folklore, history, literature, philosophy, popular culture, and theology.

The interdict was an important and frequent event in medieval society.

The valuing of old clothes as “vintage” and the recollection of the sartorial past, whether through second-hand consumption or the wearing of new old-fashioned clothes, has become a widespread phenomenon.

This edited volume aims to advance a Muslim-centered perspective on the study of Islam in Europe.

Just before she died of brain cancer in April 2020, Macrina Wiederkehr gifted her friend and coauthor Joyce Rupp with one of the many journals she kept over the years where she reflected on scripture and her own spirituality.

The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview.

During the medieval and early modern periods the Welsh diocese of St Davids was one of the largest in the country and the most remote.

Ritual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world.

In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself.

This book conceives of "e;religion-making"e; broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions.

A landmark text on the history of Christian spirituality embarks on the journey afresh.

The iconic landscape of the American Southwest reveals the luminescent Mitten rock formations, looming rock arches, and vast sagebrush oceans made vivid and memorable by writer Tony Hillerman, artist Georgia O'Keefe, and director John Ford.

This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art, religion, and cultural politics.

In this volume, originally published in 1983, W Montgomery Watt looks at the meeting of Christianity and Islam, how they see and have seen each other, and considers how they can aid each other in dealing with the problems of the world today.

The Ramayana of Valmiki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text.

A definitive history of peace advocacy and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots.

One of the fundamental questions of Middle Eastern, and Lebanese studies in particular, is the history of the relationship between the Druze community and the state in modern Lebanon.

Farley's Transcendence and Fulfillment captures one's immediate attention, especially with his designation of Paul's "e;Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Challenging recent rejections of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s groundbreaking study of Karl Barth’s theology, Stephen Long argues that these interpreters are myopically impatient with the nuances of Balthasar’s reading of Barth and fail to appreciate the longstanding theological friendship that perdured.

The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas.

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Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physical processes of religious life, tradition, practice, and belief.

In this exciting new book, renowned ethicist Richard Spinello offers the first comprehensive presentation of the late John Paul II's great moral vision.

What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of the present?

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Tobias Grill focuses on two groups of German Jews who were active in Eastern Europe between ca.

God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered considers the early development and reception of what is today the most widely professed Christian conception of Christ.

Following Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, French protestants faced the stark choice of abandoning their religion, or defying the law.

Beginning shortly after Charlemagne's death in 814, the inhabitants of his historical empire looked back upon his reign and saw in it an exemplar of Christian universality - Christendom.

What is so new about the New Testament?

Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever.

This book provides a wealth of fascinating information about many significant and lesser-known nineteenth-century Christian authors, mostly women, who were motivated to write material specifically for children's spiritual edification because of their personal faith.