This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to todays undergraduates.
A cutting-edge guide to the psychology and neuroscience of spiritual experiences Spiritual experiences have occurred within people around the world and throughout history, up to and including the present day.
A cutting-edge guide to the psychology and neuroscience of spiritual experiences Spiritual experiences have occurred within people around the world and throughout history, up to and including the present day.
From the Mormon Churchs public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the Mormon question debated central questions of constitutional law.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: 92 / 100, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit werden verschiedene Themen der Kirchengeschichte analysiert und ausgearbeitet.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, Universität Siegen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob und inwieweit Chlodwigs Entscheidung für die Taufe auf politischem Kalkül oder religiöser Überzeugung beruhte und weshalb er sich im Rahmen seiner Entscheidung für das Christentum für die mit der arianischen Lehre rivalisierenden römisch-katholischen Lehre entschieden hat.
In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution.
Brown proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literatures complex role in the discovery and creation of significant patterns within both language and life.
The debate over womens roles in the Southern Baptist Conventions conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns.
Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and evolving throughout the United States since the mid-nineteenth century.
Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood.
For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an, How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and readers guide.
From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended far beyond church pews into the wider culture.
Japanese Buddhism was introduced to a wide Western audience when a delegation of Buddhist priests attended the Worlds Parliament of Religions, part of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazils independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia.
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians.
Theodore Parker (18101860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for womens rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people words that inspired Abraham Lincoln.
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history.
Whether picketing outside abortion clinics, speaking out at school board meetings, or attending antideath penalty vigils, many Americans have publicly opposed local, state, or federal government policies on the basis of their religious convictions.
In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees.
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades?
In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity - a diverse group of religious traditions, each of which reflects a significant break from western Christian orthodoxy.
Designed to serve as an introduction to American religion, this volume is distinctive in its approach: instead of following a traditional narrative, the book is arranged thematically.
Philosophical theology is aimed primarily at theoretical understanding of the nature and attributes of God and of God's relationship to the world and its inhabitants.
Philosophical theology is aimed primarily at theoretical understanding of the nature and attributes of God and of God's relationship to the world and its inhabitants.
The separation of science and religion in modern secular culture can easily obscure the fact that in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe ideas about nature were intimately related to ideas about God.
This book explores the way in which church architecture from the earliest centuries of Christianity has been shaped by holy bones - the physical remains or 'relics' of those whom the Church venerated as saints.
This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories.
A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminismto protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system.
A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans is a study of intellectual life at the abbey of St Albans - one of Britain's greatest Benedictine monasteries - during the lifetime of Thomas Walsingham (c.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: 1,3, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Luthers Auffassung des christlichen Lebens wird in dieser Arbeit anhand der Predigt zu Lukas 2,15-20 zum zweiten Weihnachtstag interpretiert.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, Universität Rostock, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, den Entwicklungsprozess der Papstwahlen des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit zu analysieren und anhand entscheidender Einflussfaktoren zu charakterisieren.
