History of religion

Documenting the reception of the pre-eminent Austrian school reformer Johann Ignaz Felbiger and his pedagogical thought in European histories of education in the nineteenth century, this volume demonstrates how national and religious ideological preferences have propelled the construction of fundamental biases in educational historiography.

The story of Christian thought is essential to understanding Christian faith today and the last two millennia of world history.

This book explores past expressions of the Jewish interest in Hinduism in order to learn what Hinduism has meant to Jews living mainly in the 12th through the 19th centuries.

Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought.

The jovial journalist, philosopher, and theologian G.

Was there a genuine theological consensus about Christ in the early Church?

After more than twenty years since the fall of the USSR, the evangelical movement in post-Soviet society has entered a crucial phase in its historical development.

Magnificent [and] wondrous.

Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge.

This is the first book-length treatment of supplication, an important social practice in ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

With over 25,000 copies sold of the hardcover version, this paperback edition of Macrina Wiederkehrs bestselling book,Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day, invites readers to learn how to pray the hours through the practice of consciously pausing at the seven sacred moments of each day, making their daily passage through time a more sacred pilgrimage.

Originally published in 1953 From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe looks at the broader picture of the Middle Ages, drawn in terms of the men and women and the situations that they had to face.

On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "e;Poverty is not an accident.

Challenging the conception that only men shaped the Holy Roman Empire, this book provides students and general readers with biographies of preachers, nuns, princesses, businesswomen, artists, scientists, writers, and social movers who exercised agency in the Holy Roman Empire.

What does it mean to be Jewish?

In this book, first published in 1948, an attempt has been made to provide an intelligible introduction to a somewhat complex aspect of scientific inquiry.

In this beautiful and wise tale John Kotre weaves together the worlds of science and religion.

Weltweit sind Rechtspopulisten auf dem Vormarsch.

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive.

101 Tips for a Happier Marriage: Simple Ways for Couples to Grow Closer to God and to Each Other offers Catholic couples concise, practical, and at times humorous suggestions for creating and sustaining a more joyful, peace-filled marriage that is steeped in the beauty and mystery of Catholic faith.

Prague's magnificent synagogues and Old Jewish Cemetery attract millions of visitors each year, and travelers who venture beyond the capital find physical evidence of once vibrant Jewish communities in towns and villages throughout today's Czech Republic.

The Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages explores the intersection of crusader studies and studies of nature.

The historical involvement of Jews in the political Left is well known, but far less attention has been paid to the political and ideological factors which attracted Jews to the Left.

Daniel Ramirez's history of twentieth-century Pentecostalism in the U.

Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm.

Christian Spirituality and Ethical Life offers a helpful study of the place of the Spirit in John Calvin's theology.

In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of messianic and millenarian expectation.

In the first critical history of French ready-made fashion, Alexis Romano examines an array of cultural sources, including surviving garments, fashion magazines, film, photography and interviews, to weave together previously disparate historical narratives.

Pietism is increasingly recognized as the most important movement in Protestant Christianity since the Reformation of the sixteenth century.

In the 20th century, many aspects of life became 'a matter of perception' in the wake of the multiplication of media, stylistic experimentation, and the rise of multiculturalism.

Karl Barth (1886-1968) is generally acknowledged to be the most important European Protestant theologian of the twentieth century, a figure whose importance for Christian thought compares with that of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Martin Luther, and Friedrich Schleiermacher.

The Church of the East is currently the only complete history in English of the East Syriac Church of the East.

Winner of two 2025 Excellence in Publishing Awards from the Association of Catholic Publishers: Resources for Ministry (First Place), and General Interest (Third Place).

Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church architecture is unlike any other.

Dem ersten Band des Schlesischen Pfarrerbuches mit den Kirchengemeinden der Provinzialhauptstadt und ihren Pastoren folgen mit den Bänden II, III und IV die 16 weiteren Kirchenkreise des Regierungsbezirks Breslau, der mittlere Teil der Kirchenprovinz Schlesien von Groß Wartenberg im Norden bis zur Grafschaft Glatz im Süden.

Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever.

A new, definitive atlas of the European Reformations has been needed for many years.

Six hundred years ago, the Czech priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) traveled out of Bohemia, never to return.

'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Literary SupplementOn 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan.

Into the Far Country is an investigation of Karl Barth's response to modernity as seen through the prism of the subject under judgment.

The Chosen explores Judaism s key defining concept and inquires why it remains the central unspoken and explosive psychological, historical, and theological problem at the heart of Jewish-Gentile relations.

This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval art.

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) galt bereits zu Lebzeiten als ungläubiger Skeptiker.

What are Christians to make of religious diversity?