History of religion

The hidden seeds of the Christian renewal in China today include the outstanding Chinese Christians in Salt and Light 2, a dozen new life stories with lively anecdotes and photographs.

This book explores the history of the Holocaust in relation to Latin America.

The ultimate goal for the Christian life is heaven, but what path should a couple take to get there?

The period known as the fin de siecle - defined in this groundbreaking book as chiefly the period between1885 and 1901 - was a fluid and unsettling epoch of optimism and pessimism, endings and beginnings, aswell as of new forms of creativity and anxiety.

It wouldn't be Christmas without Christmas carols.

An important account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of modern English society.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

These studies span the period from the origins of the crusading movement in the 11th century until its final active phase during the Renaissance.

Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for Christianity.

Is the Christian concept of grace anathema to the social structure of merit-making found in Buddhist karmic communities?

The history of East Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe may be considered as alternating between a Marxist emphasis on rigid differences between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, largely derived from distinctive modes of production, and a preoccupation with borders, ethnicity, and personalities.

Traditional Christian Ethics features two exhaustive alphabetical lists of affirmative commandments and prohibitions from the earliest Christian ethics, as found in writers before the mass apostasy of 249-251 AD.

One nineteenth-century commentator noted the 'public' character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history.

This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches?

Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

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The existence of orphans is as inevitable to most African cities and the world as it is death.

This book is concerned with the concepts of Christian holiness and spirituality, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages.

In twenty-first century America, antisemitism is on the rise, especially on the extreme left, the radical right, and within political Islamism.

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts.

First full-scale survey and examination of liturgical practice and its fundamental changes over four centuries.

Explores how in late antiquity women, slaves, and children claimed agency in small-scale communities despite intimidation by the powerful.

This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussions this had on the political, military, economic and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire.

Globalisation stands as an indispensable lens through which to analyse current cultural, political, and social transformations.

Beiträge zu Lebens- und Wirkungsphasen des sozialliberalen Pfarrers, Publizisten und Politikers Friedrich Naumann.

In the Bible, there is a drama of defining who are truly God's people-and who are not.

What exactly is the meaning of caring for the souls of fellow humans?

Pilgrimage of Awakening is the first biography of the Rogers.

This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland.

Nationalism, War and Jewish Education explores historical circumstances leading to the emergence of a Jewish religious school system lasting to modern times and the process by which this system was broken down and adapted in secular form as Jewish nationalism grew in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Although forgotten until quite recently, Caryll Houselander, who died in 1954, was a sensitive and profound English Roman Catholic writer on Christian spirituality.

A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history.

Beacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902.

Sayings of Gorakhnath presents a translation of late-medieval texts in Old Hindi, traditionally attributed to one of the founders of the Order of Nath Yogis.

Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy.

This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950's.

Ansgar and Rimbert, ninth-century bishops and missionaries to Denmark and Sweden, are fixtures of medieval ecclesiastical history.

The author's focus and intention for this book was provoked by several stimuli.

The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther's revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism.