History of religion

Forges innovative connections between monastic archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on sacred heritage, identity, medieval healing, magic and memory.

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Experimentation in American Religion: The New Mysticism and Their Implications for the Churchesexplores the emergence of new religious movements in America, particularly those outside the traditional Judeo-Christian framework.

A sweeping history of Muslim identity from its origins in late antiquity to the present How did Muslims across time and place define the line between themselves and their neighbors?

This study, first published in 1969, presents an astute and authoritative depiction of the cultural, religious and secular developments which shook the Roman world in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries AD, much of it under the auspices of the Emperor, Constantine the Great.

For more than a decade the European Seminar in Historical Methodology has debated the history of ancient Israel (or Palestine or the Southern Levant, as some prefer).

The essays in this collection explore a number of significant questions regarding the terms 'radical' and 'radicalism' in early modern English contexts.

Called: Recovering Lutheran Principles for Ministry and Vocation explores vocation and the call to ministry from a Lutheran perspective and reveals their promise for the wider church.

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Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

The purpose of this book is to present unpublished papers at the cutting edge of research on dialetheism and to reflect recent work on the applications of the theory.

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text.

The scientific method is often assumed to provide particularly secure knowledge.

The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War.

Ausgangspunkt der Darstellung ist die Frage, ob die ältesten Dokumente über das Leben des Propheten Muhammad Frauen in die Gestaltung eines religiösen Bildungsbereichs einbeziehen.

Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was a leading educator and scholar in Jewish studies, specialising in the field of Jewish education in the talmudic period.

Over the past three decades, American evangelical Christians have undergone unexpected, progressive shifts in the area of race relations, culminating in a national movement that advocates racial integration and equality in evangelical communities.

A century before Martin Luther and the Reformation, Jan Hus confronted the official Church and helped to change the face of medieval Europe.

Religion is a particularly useful field within which to study Roman self-definition, for the Romans considered themselves to be the most religious of all peoples and ascribed their imperial success to their religiosity.

The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology.

Creative tension calls for a dialogical conversation in order to find mutual ground that can be beneficial for both partners.

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia.

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Throughout the Hebrew Bible, strangers are indispensable to the formation of a collective Israelite identity.

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.

Protestant reformers found the prophet and biblical prophecy to be exceptionally effective for framing their reforming work under the authority of Scripture-for the true prophet speaks the Word of God alone and calls the people, their worship, and their beliefs and practices back to the Word of God.

Empire and Emancipation explores how the agency of Scottish and Irish Catholics redefined understandings of Britishness and British imperial identity in colonial landscapes.

The first year for any missionary is filled with adventure and trials.

In the early 21st century, Buddhism has become ubiquitous in America and other western nations, moving beyond the original bodhi tree in India to become a major global religion.

Die Geschichte von Kirche und Christentum seit dem Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges rückt als Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte immer mehr in den Fokus des akademischen und öffentlichen Geschichtsinteresses.

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This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation, and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist.

The Jewish attachment to Zion is many centuries old.

Renowned scholar David VanDrunen tracks the historical and biblical roots of the idea that all glory belongs exclusively to God.

Accessible translations, with editions of papal documents from Late Antiquity, addressing key themes such as marriage, celibacy, ritual and heresy.

Companionship and strategies for job seekersMillions of people become unemployed every year, yet when job loss happens to us, we typically feel completely alone and often lost, ashamed, and afraid.

Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia examines the church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia between the fourth and eighth centuries.

The life and times of the most important theological work of medieval ChristendomThis concise book tells the story of the most important theological work of the Middle Ages, the vast Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, which holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy.

Historians have traditionally interpreted the American land-grant higher-education movement as the result of political and economic forces.

Schleiermacher is now regarded as an influential figure in the history of Christian thought, theories and methods in religious studies, and hermeneutics.

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die kirchenhistorische Aufarbeitung der Geschichte der "Calama-Gruppe", einer befreiungstheologisch inspirierten, international agierenden Projektgruppe von Arbeiterpriestern (bzw.

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society.

Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (second place, theology-morality, ethics, Christology, Mariology, and redemption).

Groundbreaking research that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism "e;A bravura study.

This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011.