A statuette of Egyptian King Pepi formidably wielding a shepherd's crook stands in stark contrast to a fresco of an unassuming Orpheus-like youth gently hoisting a sheep around his shoulders.
This book explores the connection between saints and animals, and how the power over animals has been a characteristic of saints from their beginnings in the Early Church.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
An exploration of how popes attempted to construct, maintain, and represent their power beyond Europe's eastern frontiers during the Avignon period of the 14th century.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
From Texts to Bodies: Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities in Premodern Europe reflects the historiographical changes to the study of women, gender, and sexuality in premodern Europe across the 1990s into the 2010s.
At the core of the Christian faith lies the spiritual journey to the heart of ultimate reality, or Goddescribed by some mystics as a dazzling darkness.
This book explores how philosophical and religious communities in the Roman Empire of the first and second centuries CE engaged with, and were shaped by, their relationship to texts and tradition in their quest for true religious knowledge or ultimate truth.
The dissolution of the Lombard political unity in southern Italy and the Muslim military activities in that area rendered the ninth century a crucial, yet troubled period for the history of this part of the Italian peninsula.
Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 19131940 examines anti-Catholic leaders and movements during the Mexican Revolution, an era that resulted in a constitution denying the Church political rights.
This book explores how philosophical and religious communities in the Roman Empire of the first and second centuries CE engaged with, and were shaped by, their relationship to texts and tradition in their quest for true religious knowledge or ultimate truth.
Roure draws a novel connection between Tommaso Campanella's utopian ideas for Imperial Spain and Catholicism and Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandez de Quiros' vision of an idyllic society and a mythical city of New Jerusalem in the antipodes.
With this first direct translation of Arminius' Declaration of Sentiments into English from the original Dutch, Stephen Gunter weaves expert translation with valuable notes and theological commentary.
Christian Science is one of the most unique and controversial of American religions, but there has never been a history of this influential metaphysical group, best known for its healing through prayer.
Tommy and Katie McGrady, hosts of Family Mass Prep on the Hallow app, offer a warm, relatable guide to walking with your child through First Reconciliation (and beyond!
Building Bridges Among Abrahams Children honors the extraordinary career of Professor Michael Berenbaum, a luminary in Holocaust studies, museum design, filmmaking, and interfaith dialogue.
Faithful Inheritances bridges academic rigor and accessibility, inviting readers to deeply explore how Christian faith shapes the ethnic identity and sense of belonging among second-generation Puerto Ricans.
After Paul: The Apostle's Legacy in Early Christianity focuses on the many ways Pauline thought and tradition were reinterpreted, reused, reframed, and reconstructed in the first centuries of Christianity.
Eusebius's groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianity and stands among the classics of Western literature.
The first Christian communities were established among the population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the middle of the nineteenth century.
