Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix"e; writing implement.
Moving beyond earlier explanations of why the Protestant church opposed the Weimar Republic, David Diephouse emphasizes the social role of the church rather than its direct political activity.
The contributors to this volume range over 2,000 years of history as they show how Confucian values spread throughout the region in premodern times and how these values were transformed in an age of modernization.
In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song.
Building on concepts developed in his previously published New Theory of Beauty, Guy Sircello constructs a bold and provocative theory of love in which the objects of love are the qualities that "e;bear"e; beauty and the pleasure of all love is "e;erotic,"e; without being "e;sexual.
CÓMO ENTENDER HOY UNA FILOSOFÍA MILENARIA, JUSTA, COMPRENSIVA Y ALENTADORATomando como punto de partida el género latino de la consolatio, Antonio Cascón Dorado nos propone acercarnos al estoicismo romano y, en concreto, a la forma de afrontar la muerte y la pérdida de un ser querido.
Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "e;free thought,"e; Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself.
Studien und Untersuchungen zu Brandverlaufskurven der DGUV (Deutsche Gemeinde Unfallversicherung) zeigen, dass extremes Brandverhalten heute schneller auftritt als noch vor 30 Jahren.
This true story details Jessica Ann Sherman's childhood and her involvement with the Jehovah's Witness Cult and the Cult's sinister secrets relating to missing persons, child abduction, child abuse and child trafficking.
The Archeology of the New Testament is the authoritative illustrated account of what is presently known about the chief sites and monuments connected with the life of Jesus and the history of the early church.
In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism.
Founded in 1365, not long after the Great Plague ravaged Europe, the University of Vienna was revitalized in 1384 by prominent theologians displaced from Paris--among them Henry of Langenstein.
Among the various kinds of occultism popular during the Russian Silver Age (1890-1914), modern Theosophy was by far the most intellectually significant.
Studien und Untersuchungen zu Brandverlaufskurven der DGUV (Deutsche Gemeinde Unfallversicherung) zeigen, dass extremes Brandverhalten heute schneller auftritt als noch vor 30 Jahren.
At the height of the religious ferment of the 1970s, David Van Zandt studied firsthand the most vilified of the new radical religious movements--the Children of God, or the Family of Love.
These are poems expressed by a person who has faced great pain and brokenness, searching for God in their darkness and finally being saved from death itself.
All Christians should know God's good news and in his third book The Gospel, Evan Turner uses scripture to scripture and examines soteriology to decipher what the good news actually is.
Exploring the lively polemics among Jews, Christians, and Muslims during the Middle Ages, Hava Lazarus-Yafeh analyzes Muslim critical attitudes toward the Bible, some of which share common features with both pre-Islamic and early modern European Bible criticism.
Although John Calvin often likened sacramental confession to butchery, the Council of Trent declared that for those who approached it worthily, it was made easy by its "e;great benefits and consolations.
The acclaimed volumes of Princeton Readings in Religions present the remarkable range of all that is encompassed in the practice of religions, across the centuries and across the world.
Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America.
Religions of the United States in Practice is a rich anthology of primary sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America.
Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain.
