Originally published in 1992, this scarce, long out-of-print book draws together the varied evidence for the pagan religion of the early Saxons and interprets this evidence.
The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagans presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs.
Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present.
This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Religionskriege in Europa, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Dreißigjährige Krieg war ein Ereignis, das ganz Europa nachhaltig erschütterte.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Theologie / Religionswissenschaft, Note: 1, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Ökumene, Patristik und Kirchengeschichte), Veranstaltung: Quellenarbeit in der Kirche und Geschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ein spannender Blick auf eine der ältesten christlichen Gemeinden in Jerusalem: Dieses Werk gibt einen ausführlichen Einblick in die Historie, Liturgie und aktuelle Relevanz der Armenischen Kirche in Jerusalem.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: 1,3, Universität Siegen (Evangelische Theologie), Veranstaltung: Kirchengeschichte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht die Konfliktverläufe innerhalb der reformierten Kirchengemeinden in Siegen zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, insbesondere im Kontext der "Freien Reformierten Siegener Synode" in den Jahren 1933-1937.
The helmet-shaped mapiko masks of Mozamxadbique have garnered admiration from African art scholars and collectors alike, due to their striking aesthetics and their grotesque allure.
Offering the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of what Christian nationalism in America is and isn't, and how it became the political religion of Donald Trump's MAGA movement, the chapters in this book describe the way Christian nationalism has embedded itself in American politics.
Philosophical Perspectives: Essays on Reality, Knowledge, and Morality is a collection of essays on foundational questions that shape our lives as rational creatures and moral agents.
This book offers a comprehensive study of the ways Wales and Welsh people have historically engaged with—and imagined—Jews, Judaism, and Israel-Palestine.
In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized as the source of a godless liberalism in conflict with religious faith.
Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.
Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present.
Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.
In Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, McLoughlin draws on psychohistory, sociology, and anthropology to examine the relationship between America's five great religious awakenings and their influence on five great movements for social reform in the United States.
At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups-those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland-faced an uneasy challenge to reconcile their concepts of responsibility toward the homeland.
From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world's most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram's bloody, decade-long war in northeastern Nigeria.
The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States.
Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices.
For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem).
In August 1986, Alice Auma, a young Acholi woman in northern Uganda, proclaiming herself under the orders of a Christian spirit named Lakwena, raised an army called the "e;Holy Spirit Mobile Forces.
Using the concept of classical republicanism in his analysis, Kenneth Winn argues against the common view that the Mormon religion was an exceptional phenomenon representing a countercultural ideology fundamentally subversive to American society.
Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; Old Elizabeth, an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844 these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America.
Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism uses conceptual and empirical methods to argue that the many individuals who have ambiguous evidence for God can grow in virtue and attain greater flourishing by engaging in practices of faith toward God.
This book is focused on the reception history of Thomas Aquinas' account of Eucharistic sacrifice during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
This book explores the resilience of the Spanish Monarchy by uncovering the practices that sustained Philip IV's monarchy as a major diplomatic power between 1648 and 1660.
