History of religion

Given that Pope Francis is a popular global religious leader, and in the light of the lessons drawn from the nature, meaning, and functions of Israel's prophets, this tripartite work historically, pastorally, and theologically examines whether, and how Francis' teaching, visits, outreach to the poor, preaching, and recent biblically based writings (Lumen Fidei, Evangelii Gaudium, Amoris Laetitia, Laudato Si', Gaudete et Exsultate, Letters, and Messages) have had any prophetic effects or impact on contemporary society.

With the Second Vatican Council (196265), the Roman Catholic Church for the first time took a positive stance on modernity.

This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood.

A rich and innovative look at the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenth-century Africa.

This source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages.

Marriage and the Counsel of God is the product of over twenty-two years of biblical study and pastoral counseling.

The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected.

Maria Magdalena – eine der faszinierendsten und zugleich missverstandenen Gestalten des frühen Christentums.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Christians carried on an intense debate concerning the doctrine of prayer.

Centered upon the lives of employees at a Manhattan advertising firm, the AMC television series Mad Men touches on the advertising world's unique interests in consumerist culture, materialistic desire, and the role of deception in Western capitalism.

This work provides a comprehensive and multi-facetted account of the Reformation in eastern and central Europe, drawing on extensive archival research carried out by Continental and British scholars.

What is God saying to you in your dreams?

Righteous Persecution examines the long-controversial involvement of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, with inquisitions into heresy in medieval Europe.

Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent.

Sex, violence, power, and redemption.

In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

Mit dieser Edition werden erstmals drei Vorlesungen veröffentlicht, die der 1933 in die USA emigrierte Philosoph und Theologe Paul Tillich zwischen den Jahren 1951 und 1958 als Gastprofessor an der Freien Universität Berlin gehalten hat.

The Catholic Apostolic Church combined liturgical worship, charismatic experience, ecumenical vision, and eschatological expectation.

A landmark reinterpretation of why Christianity became the dominant faith of the WestThe idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion.

The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Qur'an commentary.

John Wesley and George Whitefield are remembered as founders of Methodism, one of the most influential movements in the history of modern Christianity.

This book investigates the relationship between nineteenth-century German theological Wissenschaft and the emergence of confessional Lutheranism.

From National Book Awardwinning author Martin Marty, the surprising story of a Christian classic born in a Nazi prison cellFor fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century.

A comprehensive presentation of the various aspects of Jewish life throughout the medieval Islamic world.

This book introduces new scholarship exploring liturgical futures in light of Sacrosanctum Concilium at 60+.

Too often the biblical passages governing sexual morality are interpreted in simplistic, proof texting ways that take no account of the cultural gap between ancient Israel and the modern world.

The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis.

It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity.

This book aims to explore the meaning of salvation in Balthasar Hubmaier's theology.

A nineteen-year-old chemistry major at Rhodes College is selected to spend the summer after her freshman year doing research at St.

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One of the most important religious sites in the world is largely hidden and rarely visited.

The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites.

Americans are using more medical services every year, but as many as half of those services do nothing to improve their health.

This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must move away from conceptualizations that require or center on death.

This study overcomes the ambiguity and daunting scale of the subject of secularization by using the insights of anthropology and sociology, and by examining an earlier period than usually considered.

This bibliography and resource consists of a chronological introduction to the development of Lewis's works, a copious bibliography and a guide to the study of Lewis, an introductory essay on Christology in Lewis, and a glossary for those unfamiliar with some of the background and terms to Lewis's understanding of revelation and the Christ.

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world.

Prayer divided seventeenth-century England.

Beginning as a marginal group in Galilee, the movement initiated by Jesus of Nazareth became a world religion within 100 years.

In recent years the Christian faith has been challenged by skeptics, including the New Atheists, who claim that belief in God is simply not reasonable.

Bringing together a wealth of primary sources and with contributions from leading experts, Dress History of Korea presents the most recent approaches to the interpretation of dress and fashion of Korea.

En el proceso de renovación temática y metodológica experimentado por la historia, los estudios sobre las mujeres han cobrado especial protagonismo, y entre ellos destacan las investigaciones sobre religiosidad y espiritualidad.

This book is the first major investigation of a subject of seminal importance in the study of church history and archaeology.

Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value.

For centuries, people have been drawn to the Christian mystics--women and men who have known God in powerful and experiential ways.

If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize?

This Reader presents a diverse and ecumenical cross-section of ecclesiological statements from across the twenty centuries of the church's existence.