History of religion

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World surveys the ways in which people from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson used Christian ideas and institutions to regulate and shape sexual norms and conduct, and examines the impact of their efforts.

No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England.

We do not have many definitions of Christianity from late antiquity, but among the few extant is the brief statement of Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 CE) that it is "e;mimesis of the divine nature.

Through their metaphorical and material qualities, textiles can be seductive, exciting, intimate and, at times, shocking and disquieting.

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples.

The Fly in My Eye is a reflection of an illusion.

The Exorcist of Sombor examines the life course, practice and mentality of an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar, based on his own letters and documentation, creating a frame around the tightly packed history of events that took place between 1766-1769, and analysing the series of exorcism scandals that erupted in the Hungarian town of Sombor, from the perspectives of social history and cultural history.

The 'Euthalian apparatus' is a corpus of auxiliary texts that summarize Acts and the New Testament Letters.

Bible Study Evangelista Sonja Corbitt, author of Unleashed and Fearless, struggled to understand Marian devotion as a new Catholic.

Readings in Baptist History compiles four centuries of notable religious documents, from John Smyths The Character of the Beast in 1609 all the way to the 2000 revision of the Southern Baptist Conventions Baptist Faith and Message.

The Book of Resolutions provides models for applying an active faith to daily life in ways that can impact the world around us.

While previous works on the history of Christianity in China have largely centered on the scientific and philosophical areas of Catholic missions in the Middle Kingdom, China's Saints recounts the history of Christian martyrdom, precipitated as it was by cultural antagonisms and misunderstanding.

Impelled by economic deprivation at home and spiritual ambition abroad, nineteenth-century Irish clerics and laypeople reshaped the many sites where they came to pray, preach, teach, trade, and settle.

This book tackles the core problem of how painful historical memories between diverse religious communities continue to impact--even poison--present-day relations.

Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of life from the cradle to the grave.

Many of the leading figures of the Reformation and many of their most able opponents came from among the ranks of the Franciscan Order.

After Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Parley P.

This book has its origins in a comparative religions course Burns has taught at the University of Arizona for the past thirty years.

Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity.

OVER 500,000 SOLD IN THE PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES SERIESAs parents of adult children, we often worry about whether our children will make good choices when they're on their own.

The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective explores the soul loss that results from personal, collective, and transgenerational trauma and the healing that unfolds through reconnection with the sacred.

As a young Christian woman, do you struggle with insecurities and feel bogged down by the pressures and expectations of society?

Drawing upon a multi-disciplinary methodology employing diverse written sources, material practices and vivid life histories, Faith in the family seeks to assess the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society relating to social mobility, the sixties, sexual morality and secularisation.

"e;Apocalypticism has been the source of hope and courage for the oppressed, but has also given rise, on many occasions, to fanaticism and intolerance.

For good or ill, most, if not all, of the great institutions which have formed the framework of society have had their roots in the idea of Deity as a beneficent providential order of transcendental reality.

The Parish Church was the primary site of religious practice throughout the early modern period.

New Brethren in Flanders is the story of the planting and remarkable growth of Brethren churches in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium at the end of the twentieth century.

This book identifies the impasse between classical Protestant and contemporary charismatic and Pentecostal pneumatologies as a fundamental theological problem.

Translated from Julian of Norwich.

Powerfully honest prayers for every challenge in your life.

Johann Jakob Rambach (1693–1735) war der wohl bekannteste Theologieprofessor seiner Zeit und galt als ein bedeutender Vertreter des lutherischen Barockpietismus.

Between 1535 and 1603, more than 200 English Catholics were executed by the State for treason.

After the birth of the Protestant ecumenical movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and following the first great wave of universal Christian ecumenism in the 1960s and 1970s after the Second Vatican Council, prominent theologians of nearly every ecclesial tradition charted new territory in the last decades of the twentieth century.

World War I has been recorded from many points of view: correspondent, poet, politician, and soldier.

Central Asia was the sole Muslim region of the former Russian Empire that lacked a centralized Islamic organization, or muftiate.

The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains.

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America.

"e;Anglo-Catholic"e; is not an abstract label for Father Gordon Butler Wadhams, the vibrant personality whose life is narrated and whose writings are anthologized here.

A compelling contribution to ''science and religion'' debates, showing how early modern thinkers reconciled naturalism with a providential world view.

How far can religion play a part in the public sphere, or should it be only a private matter?

The United States has never had an officially established national church.

An immense understanding of the Qur'an is offered here, a vast treasure of knowledge and deep insight and a valuable exposition of some social, political, economic and legal teachings of the Qur'an.