History of religion

Crosses, candles, choir vestments, sanctuary flowers, and stained glass are common church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of American Christianity today.

Inspired by Father Alfred Delp, who wrote a meditation titled "e;The Shaking Reality of Advent"e; while imprisoned by the Nazis during WWII, Bishop Peter B.

The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship.

First published in 1622, Jeremias Drexel's 'Zodiacus christianus' (or 'Christian Zodiac') was a remarkable work of religious iconography and spiritual self-help.

This work compares medieval and modern Arabic sources relating to the Berber Empires (11th-13th centuries) with the way in which European studies have apprehended this topic against the backdrop of the emergence of orientalism and the expansion of France in the Maghreb.

This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

The opposition of science and religion is a recent phenomenon; in the middle ages, and indeed until the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost no conflict.

Drawing on the graphic and revealing evidence recorded by the different courts in early modern Saragossa, this book captures the spirit of an age when religious faith vied for people's hearts and minds with centuries-old beliefs in witchcraft and superstition.

Disgust is among the strongest of aversions, characterized by involuntary physical recoil and even nausea.

This book explores how madness was defined and diagnosed as a condition of the mind in the Middle Ages and what effects it was thought to have on the bodies, minds and souls of sufferers.

Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who traveled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East.

In the first scholarly biography of Minister Farrakhan, leader of the controversial religious movement, the Nation of Islam (NOI), Dawn-Marie Gibson challenges popular portrayals of Farrakhan in American media.

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This book uses Karl Barth's Der Romerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe.

Through extensive use of primary resources and fieldwork, this detailed study examines overseas Shinto shrines and their complex role in the colonization and modernization of newly Japanese lands and subjects.

Letters have long been an outlet for political expression, whether they articulate the personal politics of the daily routine or the political views of individuals who witness or participate in dramatic events.

A collection of inspiring and comforting Bible verses to guide you through life's difficulties.

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The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous religious change in Italy as in Europe as a whole, a period when movements for both reform and counter-reform reflected and affected shifting religious sensibilities.

A new form of anxiety has emerged, stemming in part from our post-9/11 reality, but even more stemming from the influence of supermodernity.

A study of ''Catholic identity'' in southwest Germany in the two centuries after the Reformation.

In Making African Christianity author Robert J.

A comprehensive study of the rise, development and use of credal formulaines in the creative centuries of the Church's history.

Randall Davidson was Archbishop of Canterbury for quarter of a century.

Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, ruled the Roman Empire between 337 and 361 CE.

One Family: Before, During, and After the Holocaust, Third Edition, written by the son of a survivor, revisits and expands the author's research on his relatives while they lived in Poland, France, Denmark and the U.

This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G.

This collection explores the multifaceted nature of the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Italy.

This book studies diverse aspects of braid representations via knots and links.

The assertion written on the Great Stone of Jelling is that it was Harold (Bluetooth) who converted the Danes to Christianity in c.

For centuries, particular readings of the biblical text have shaped the course of Western history.

A revised and updated edition of Waines'' wide-ranging account of the history and theology of Islam.

Leontius of Jerusalem is considered the most accomplished of the neo-Chalcedonian theologians of the sixth century.

A Canadian-built mission house in the heart of Seoul became the heart of the emerging South Korean democratization movement, while a Korean minister rose to serve as the spiritual leader of Canada's largest Protestant denomination.

A vivid journey back to the time of Krishna, his holy city, and the Mahabharata War *; Recounts ecstatic celebrations, Krishna's love for his wives and sons, and events surrounding the Mahabharata War *; Offers potent spiritual lessons from Krishna's teachings and stresses Krishna's ability to contain all opposites and stand above duality *; Provides a historical timeline and real dates for the Mahabharata War and the sinking of Krishna's city beneath the sea Located on the west coast of India in the state of Gujarat, the city of Dwaraka is considered one of the seven holy cities of India.

Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church.

An indispensable resource for readers investigating how religion has influenced societies and cultures, this three-volume encyclopedia assesses and synthesizes the many ways in which religious faith has shaped societies from the ancient world to today.

God wants our days to be abundant and thriving!

This volume presents Augustine''s writings on free will and divine grace in a new translation by Peter King.

Novatian of Rome and the Culmination of Pre-Nicene Orthodoxy is an overview of the development of Christology and Trinitarian doctrine, which reached a plateau with Novatian, the third-century priest of Rome.

Im Jahr 1945 entdeckten Bauern im ägyptischen Nag Hammadi eine antike Sammlung mysteriöser Schriften – darunter das Thomasevangelium, ein apokrypher Text, der die moderne Wissenschaft in Aufregung versetzte und das Verständnis des frühen Christentums nachhaltig veränderte.

Adams examines the contributions of such major Francais libres as Rene Cassin, Pierre Mendes France, and Jacques Soustelle and explores de Gaulle's troubled relations with Churchill and Roosevelt.

This book, first published in 1917, investigates the rites and beliefs of people who had remained in a 'primitive' state of culture throughout the ages.