Although it has long been acknowledged that the early Irish literary corpus preserves both pre-Christian and Christian elements, the challenges involved in the understanding of these different strata have not been subjected to critical examination.
The evangelical or Methodist revival had a major impact on Welsh religion, society and culture, leading to the unprecedented growth of Nonconformity by the nineteenth century, which established a very clear difference between Wales and England in religious terms.
Monastic Wales - new approaches is an interdisciplinary collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars working on aspects of medieval Welsh history.
This illuminating volume sheds light on the religious women of medieval Wales, drawing on a wide range of sources from saints' lives and native poetry to holy wells and visual imagery.
The Social Life of the Early Modern Protestant Clergy provides unexpected new insights on the lives of the early modern English and Swedish clergy through case studies and broader surveys.
Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years.
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Theology - Historic Theology, Ecclesiastical History, grade: A-, Prairie Bible Institute, course: History of the Growth of Christianity, language: English, abstract: Muhammad ibn Abdullah, the last prophet and founder of Islam, is one of the most influential people who walked on this earth.
A cultural history of the American faith in alien life, from the Puritans to Heaven's GateOver the past three centuries, belief in extraterrestrial life has had a profound influence on American religion.
A cultural history of the American faith in alien life, from the Puritans to Heaven's GateOver the past three centuries, belief in extraterrestrial life has had a profound influence on American religion.
An invaluable Penguin Classics edition of one of the World's great religious texts You have turned my mourning into dancing;You have taken off my sackclothAnd clothed me with joyThe Book of Psalms has an extraordinary place in many cultures.
The Old Testament of the King James Version of the BibleThe First Book of Moses: Called Genesis1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
A series of letters in defence of divine revelation presents a structured dialogue defending the authenticity and moral significance of biblical scriptures.
In Converging Paths, author Susan Santucci gathers the world's greatest religious insights into one volume that is easy-to-read, thought-provoking, and inspirational.
The Irish race in the past and the present presents a reflective examination of how a people's identity is shaped through long patterns of endurance, cultural continuity, and spiritual commitment.
In Converging Paths, author Susan Santucci gathers the world's greatest religious insights into one volume that is easy-to-read, thought-provoking, and inspirational.
A bird's-eye look at the Ghost Dance, the first instance of modern, collective racial self-consciousness for Native peoples in the United StatesFrom the Sand Creek Massacre (1864) to the Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890), Indigenous religious practices-legally banned after 1883-took on new meanings as acts of defiance against colonialism and white supremacy.
A revelatory exploration of how the Bible's underdogs, outlaws, and forgotten figures can teach us about our humanityIn this unprecedented book, a secular humanist and celebrated scholar of religion tells the stories of the Bible's most marginalized figures, challenging readers to reconsider who are the heroes of the text, and who are the villains.
The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world.
The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world.
More than a generation after the rise of womens history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion.
More than a generation after the rise of womens history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion.
Theological essays and other papers Volume 2 examines religious authority through selected discussions of ecclesiastical conflict, using the upheavals within a national church to reveal how questions of governance shape belief, power, and institutional identity.
