Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures explores how our conceptions of time, space, and the physical universe have evolved across cultures throughout the centuries.
In diesem Sammelband werden die historischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Facetten der politischen Systeme der einzelnen Länder des Mittleren Ostens analysiert.
Unlike traditional references that recount political and military history, this encyclopedia includes entries on a wide range of aspects related to daily life during the medieval crusades.
This trio of volumes contains essays that explore vital existential, moral, or metaphysical issues surrounding the relationship between the sciences and the world's religions.
This book offers insights into the thinking of majority world practical theologians and introduces the reader to faith realities previously unknown in a quest to create a more inclusive and welcoming practical theological network.
In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this allegation as one that functioned alongside other anti-Jewish allegations such as ritual murder, blood libel, and host desecration to ultimately inform dangerous and long-lasting prejudices in medieval and early modern Europe.
This two-volume set investigates the evangelical presence in America as experienced through digital media, examining current evangelical ideologies regarding education, politics, family, and government.
Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.
This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi'a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East.
Although our planet faces numerous ecological crises, including climate change, many Christians continue to view their faith as primarily a "spiritual" matter that has little relationship to the world in which we live.
Christianity Today Book Award Finalist-Biblical StudiesForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistHow Has Misinterpreting Paul Led to the Silencing of Women?
Museum memorialization has long been about politics, design implications, and visitor experience--rarely focused upon the people mired in commemorating the dead.
As a contribution to the Fortress series on World Christianity as Public Religion, this volume delves into questions of religious alterity and justice in World Christianity.
American Heresy uncovers the complex legacy of America's founding principles, demonstrating how the very same values have produced both good fruit and the bitter harvest of white Christian nationalism.
While the author was still a student at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda (1968/69), she realized how important women are, in the society and in the church.
La Imitación de Cristo a es un libro de devoción y ascética católico escrito en forma de consejos breves cuyo objetivo, según el propio texto, es "instruir al alma en la perfección cristiana, proponiéndole como modelo al mismo Jesucristo", según la escuela de la devotio moderna.
The goods that we pursue in our lives are for us, first and foremost, goods that are particular and personal, and thus goods that are immediate to our attention.
Told through essays, memoirs, and other musings, this is the story of a radical Jew, academic, and educator from his birth in Ukraine during the Holocaust through the radical 60s and 70s, to the present day as he fights anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, xenophobia, and hate.
Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women's rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country and the third largest democracy in the world.
Father Andrei Papkovs unique textbook is the only book addressing the liturgical performance practices of religious singing in the Russian Orthodox Church.
'Witty, knowledgeable and mind-expanding' RICHARD FISHER | 'A joyful romp' TOM HARFORD | 'A fun and inspiring teaser for curious minds' J R MIE HARRISEvery so often, a new idea comes along that changes everything.
La persona de Lutero y cuanto representó supuso una convulsión en el panorama religioso, político, social, literario y artístico de la Europa de su tiempo.
