History of religion

Presbyterians often have questions about Presbyterian theology and beliefs that are basic to Christian faith itself.

Winner of a 2020 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers (second place, ministry); 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (second place, family life).

With his rosy cheeks and matching red suit--and ever-present elf and reindeer companions--Santa Claus may be the most identifiable of fantastical characters.

First published in 1992.

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

David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion.

Prayer serves as the central aspect of the Christian life, by which our faith is formed and by which we offer thanksgiving and praise.

Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia explores the interaction between religion, nationalism, and political modernity in the first half of the 20th century, taking the case of the Serbian Orthodox Church as an example.

Philo of Alexandria was a few years older than Jesus of Nazareth and lived longer.

In historical terms, religions do not exist apart from the people who practise them.

A History of the Greek World from 479 to 323 B.

Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558) was one of the most important international figures of mid-16th century Europe: principal antagonist of Henry VIII, papal diplomat, legate to the council of Trent, and nearly successful candidate for pope.

By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and post-colonial missionaries.

If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal.

This book explores how beliefs and practices have shaped the interactions between different ethnic groups in Western Hunan, as well as considering how religious life has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history.

In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution.

First published in 1989, A Social History of French Catholicism 1789-1914 is a clear survey of over a hundred years of Catholicism in French society.

Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage.

Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice--the writing of incantations on amulets--changed in an increasingly Christian context.

Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world.

A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.

This collection of perceptive personal essays brings the meaning of the sacraments to life with unflinching realism and compassion.

For more than twenty years, life coach and Steubenville speaker Paul George has helped fellow Catholics discover their purpose by searching themselves, reorganizing their priorities, and establishing a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Recovery of Paul and Luther's theology of the cross has been an enduring legacy of twentieth-century theology, and in our own day the topic has continued to expand as more and more global voices join the conversation.

Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the American missionary James Butler predicted that Christian conversion and British law together would eradicate Indian ascetics.

This title, first published in 1973, uses contemporary documents to explore religion in the nineteenth-century.

In autumn 1525, Luther wrote The Bondage of the Will as a response to humanist and theologian Erasmus of Rotterdams On Free Will.

Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.

This first volume of A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought provides a window into the early Protestant world, and the ways in which Protestants wrestled with politics and religion in the wake of the Reformation.

In a time when organized religion is suffering an identity crisis, the author of The Last Presbyterian?

With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378.

Although the importance of Congregationalism in early Massachusetts has engaged historians' attention for generations, this study is the first to approach the Puritan experience in Congregational church government from the perspective of both the pew and the pulpit.

Integrating counseling--theory and practice--with the biblical revelation has now been attempted many times and with considerable success.

Winner of a 2025 CMA Book Award from the Catholic Media Association: Catholic Social Teaching (First Place).

He was the dominant intellectual figure of his age.

Change is one of the passwords that describes the moving reality of our lives.

A consideration of the theme of demons as teachers in early English literature.

This study, first published in 1997, attempts to fill a gap in the historiography of the African American church by analysing the role and place of the African American church in one city, Birmingham, Alabama.

Between 1535 and 1603, more than 200 English Catholics were executed by the State for treason.