History of religion

This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety.

This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety.

One of the significant developments in scholarship in the latter half of the twentieth century was the awareness among historians of ideas, historians of theology, and medievalists of the importance of the Christian scriptures in the Latin Middle Ages.

In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift.

Sex in marriage can be beautifulbut also new, confusing, awkward, and even frustrating.

Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God.

Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving God.

In this Element, the authors introduce and apply a framework for the linguistic analysis of fake news.

This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem in the literature of two Eastern Christian denominations, East and West Syrians.

This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem in the literature of two Eastern Christian denominations, East and West Syrians.

The historical Jesus is as elusive as he is appealing.

A way of life: embracing grace, seeking holiness, building connections.

In a polarised milieu that too often posits "e;queer"e; and "e;Christian"e; as competing realms, this book explores the complexities of identity development, religious traumatisation, and the task of creating safe faith spaces in which LGBTQA+ people can find healing, particularly in the Evangelical context.

Scientific Errors in the Quran and IslamAuthor:Maxwell ShimbaIn "e;Scientific Errors in the Quran and Islam,"e; Maxwell Shimba embarks on a rigorous and detailed exploration of the Quran, aiming to dissect and scrutinize its claims against the backdrop of contemporary scientific knowledge.

This volume looks at the history of the idea of sin as it has influenced and shaped Western culture.

Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines.

The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other.

A valuable resource for students and general audiences, this book provides a unique global perspective on the history, beliefs, and practices of emergent faith communities; new religious traditions; and religious movements worldwide, from the 19th century to the present.

One of the world's most popular religions, Buddhism is also one of the most misunderstood.

An engaging and accurate introduction to the Protestant Reformation, told in the words of those who led it, opposed it, and lived it.

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion.

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A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church.

You'll be inspired by the ultimate sacrifice of dozens of early followers of Jesus as recorded in the classic history Foxe's Christian Martyrs.

Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience.

As the birthplace of the Reformation, Germany has been the site of some of the most significant moments in the history of European Christianity.

After centuries of persecution, oppression, forced migrations, and exclusion in the name of Christ, the development of a Jewish Quest for the Historical Jesus might seem unexpected.

If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service.

In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition.

Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use.

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.

The year 1978 marked a watershed year in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it lifted a 126-year ban on ordaining black males for the priesthood.

Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad's sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told.

America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally important holidaysChristmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgivingcame to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture.

A Lenten devotional of reflections made for moms like you by moms like you.

When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear.

The work that you are holding in your hands now is the result of a human life full of drama, mysticism and experiences that may seem certainly contradictory for those who are far away from God.

Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War.

This collection of essays and sermons by Rodney Kennedy and Kyle Childress is focused on honoring the memory of Will Campbell--the prophet from the South who made a vocation of destroying sacred cows.

Few twentieth-century theologians have had a bigger impact on theology than Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who lived his faith and died at the hands of the Nazis.

Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures.

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions.

A complete history of the Antichrist, Satan''s son, within the context of Western expectations of the end of the world.

Why is religion intertwined with war and violence?

Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion.

Luther and Bach on the Magnificat: For Advent and Christmas brings together the gifts of Lutheranism's original and most prominent theologian with Lutheranism's most prominent composer/musician as Martin Luther and Johann Sebastian Bach expound in word and music on the Virgin Mary's song of praise in the Gospel of Luke: the Magnificat.

In ENLIGHTENMENT FROM THE QURAN you will learn:* The purpose of life.

Henry D.

Paramhansa Yogananda's classic Autobiography of a Yogi was more about the saints Yogananda met than about himselfin spite of the fact that Yogananda was much greater than many he described.