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.
This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods.
Der Band 16 des International Yearbook for Tillich Research lotet unter dem Titel The Future of Protestantism Tillichs Protestantismus-Deutung in historischen, zeitdiagnostischen, werkgeschichtlichen und systematischen Perspektiven aus.
Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time.
This book diversifies the fields of digital religion studies and Africana religious studies by considering the nuanced intersections between digital technologies and the religious experiences of African Americans.
Married Ever After is a guide through the marriage process based on 20 timeless Qur'anic principles, insightful Prophetic examples and contemporary research on maintaining successful relationships.
Originally published in 1964, this further volume in Poul Borchsenius' history of the Jewish people, is the story of the emancipation from the time when the Jews lived a segregated life in the ghetto, until the Age of Enlightenment they achieved equality.
The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print.
In einer Zeit, in der die katholische Kirche immense Macht und Reichtum auf sich vereinte, stellte sich ein Mann mutig gegen die vorherrschende Korruption und Dekadenz – Jan Hus.
This book connects two of the most pressing ethical topics of our time: questions of peace and technology, materialized in so-called autonomous weapons systems, which can operate without human control and intervention in real time.
Los domingos por la maana en la Iglesia Grace Community, pequeos grupos de personas se renen para las clases de Fundamentos de la Fe y usan este manual de trece lecciones que combina verdades y bases bblicas con el servicio y obediencia personal.
Gabriela Mann's book explores the work of an Israeli psychoanalyst who encounters the trauma and tragedy of Israelis living in an environment saturated with existential anxieties and threats to their well-being.
While writings by early modern Quaker women have been discussed and quoted fairly extensively, relatively few of their texts are readily or widely available.
Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland-Lithuania's roots in the supposedly 'Oriental' land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance.
