West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba seeks to explain how a series of historical events that occurred in West Africa from the mid-1790s - including Afonja's rebellion, the Owu wars, the Fulani-led jihad, and the migrations to Egbaland - had an impact upon life in cities and plantations in western Cuba and Bahia.
Popular author and EWTN host Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle presents a daily devotional companion for families with young children in Bringing Lent Home with Mother Teresa: Prayers, Reflections, and Activities for Families.
Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a beleaguered group of followers of a crucified rabbi became the founders of a world-changing faith.
In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, explains what is going wrong in his society by referring to Islamic history and beliefs.
Using the life and writings of Cyril III Ibn Laqlaq, 75th patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, along with a variety of Christian and Muslim chroniclers, this study explores the identity and context of the Christian community of Egypt and its relations with the leadership of the Ayyubid dynasty in the early thirteenth century.
In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss.
The pastoral insight of Deacon Charles Paolino and the spiritually rich Lenten Gospel readings enliven the popular five-step format of The Living Gospel devotional series.
This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world?
An in-depth look at the institution as the center of many important cultural shifts with which the South and the wider Church have wrestled historically.
Award-winning journalist and popular blogger Deacon Greg Kandra accompanies you in prayer and reflection through the busy days and long nights of the Advent season to help you spiritually prepare for Christmas.
For forty years, James Finley's Mertons Palace of Nowherehas been the standard text for exploring, reflecting on, and understanding the rich vein of Thomas Mertons thought.
This powerful Lenten prayer book from the Apostleship of Prayer (The Popes Worldwide Prayer Network) engages and inspires readers with the Churchs daily scripture readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, introducing Catholics and other Christians to the traditional spiritual devotion known aslectio divina, or ';sacred reading,' in a new way.
The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.
This uplifting prayer book for Advent and the Christmas season from the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Networkan international ecclesial ministry served by the Jesuitsengages you with the Church's daily scripture readings and incorporates the Pope's monthly prayer intentions for groups across the globe.
In the Year 1230 BCE, the stately city of Shechem cradled between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal was suddenly disturbed out of her reserved formality, her closely-watched market, her liturgical inner temple routine, her orderly sentinelled turrets.
As someone who clocked more time in mosh pits and at pro-choice rallies than kneeling in a pew, Kaya Oakes was not necessarily the kind of Catholic girl the Vatican was after.
Sabiduría en exilio explora el espacio que existe para el budismo en la cultura contemporánea; un espacio generado gracias al fracaso de nuestros sistemas de pensamiento dominantes.
1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSASSINATED WOMENS FEMINIST MEMBER MARY SURRAT HANGED FOR PARTICIPATIONLEADER OF GROUP FOUND HIDING IN VATICAN PAPAL GUARDBefore his death Abraham Lincoln made the following statements to his trusted staff:It is not against the Americans of the South alone that I am fighting, it is even more againstTHE POPE OF ROME and his perfidious Jesuits and their blind and blood thirsty slaves that we have to defend ourselves The Jesuits, have not yet killed me.
In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Val ry wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit.
This powerful and inspiring prayer book from the Apostleship of Prayer (The Popes Worldwide Prayer Network) engages readers with the Churchs daily scripture readings from the beginning of Advent to Epiphany, introducing Catholics and other Christians to the traditional spiritual devotion known aslectio divina, or ';sacred reading,' in a new way.
Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a beleaguered group of followers of a crucified rabbi became the founders of a world-changing faith.
