History of religion

This collection of original materials provides a sweeping view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice.

This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s

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God and Evidence presents a new set of compelling problems for theistic philosophers.

Crusades covers the seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history.

What did ancient Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans think about how and why Jews ate the way they did?

Die Geschichte der Frauenordination in der EKD ist ein Ergebnis des noch nicht abgeschlossenen, gesamtgesellschaftlichen Gleichstellungsprozesses.

Originally published in 1988.

The Russian Orthodox Church has survived more than seventy years of the most brutal and sustained attempts to eradicate religion that has ever been.

First published in 1975, The Powers of Evil is an interesting study of beliefs about supernatural agencies, thought to menace and prey on human beings, are known to all societies and, even in this age of materialism and rationalism, they still have a firmer grip on Western minds that is not always understood or admitted.

In recent decades, the historiography of early modern Ireland in general, and of the seventeenth century in particular, has been revitalised.

Drawing upon the latest historical and archaeological research, Dr Peter Sarris provides a panoramic account of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East from the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam.

This volume is the fifth of a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century.

Are you disconnected from God?

The study of funeral monuments is a growing field, but monuments erected to commemorate children have so far received little attention.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Orientalische Kultur und europäisches Mittelalter" verfügbar.

Die römische Kaiserzeit stellt insgesamt eine Epoche dar, deren religiöse Transformationen die nachantike mediterrane, europäische und westasiatische Religionsgeschichte geprägt haben.

Why does God feel so far away?

Be Equipped to Interact More Fruitfully and Thoughtfully with MuslimsThe Quran with Christian Commentary offers a unique introduction to the primary religious text of Islam.

There are moments in life that are either too numbing or too exhilarating, too sad or too exciting for us to absorb.

"e;What if Luke had to reteach the basic lessons of his history of the early church?

Comprehensive catalogue of the hagiographical lessons in Sarum breviaries, with key studies of the most crucial elements.

This title was first published in 2000: This is a full-scale integrated synthesis of the origins, spread and effects of monasticism in Scandinavia, and along the shores of the Baltic and the North Sea.

This book brings a crucial perspective to the examination of religion and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by focusing on the roles that Christian communities play in this region.

Johannes Mathesius (1504–1565), Prediger und Pfarrer im böhmischen Joachimsthal, gehört zu den von Wittenberg geprägten Reformatoren.

The book is organized into three divisions, and as the title implies, there is a brief letter in the form of a New Testament epistle to the contemporary church, a portion of which begins each chapter.

Exploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this book offers a unique insight into India s rapidly transforming multi-religious society.

In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate-Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber-by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as the writings of W.

Babaylan Sing Back depicts the embodied voices of Native Philippine ritual specialists popularly known as babaylan.

During the Second World War, Mennonites in the Netherlands, Germany, occupied Poland, and Ukraine lived in communities with Jews and close to various Nazi camps and killing sites.

Vincent Donovan is best known as the author of the influential bestseller, Christianity Rediscovered (1978).

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive substance that has long been associated with indigenous Amazonian shamanic practices.

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of goods from Portuguese trading voyagesfruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people.

The ways in which people change and grow, and learn to become good, are not only about conscious decisions to behave well, but about internal change which allows a loving and compassionate response to others.

The Imitatio Christi is considered one of the classic texts of Western spirituality.

This book, based on extensive research including in the Russian and Vatican archives, charts the development of relations between the Catholic Church and the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the death of Pope Pius XI in 1939.

Originally published in 1979, Gold Was the Mortar details the financing and the building of the medieval cathedrals at Paris, Amiens, Toulouse, Lyon, Strasbourg, York, Poitiers and Rouen.

Secular humanists and other progressives have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years.

This study of religious tensions in Early Modern England explores the different religious separatist movements between 1550-1660.

Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese.