The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves.
This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's widely influential book Utopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries.
This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions.
This book reveals how today's devastating conflicts across Gaza, Syria, and the broader Middle East represent imperialism in its most destructive form.
Illusions of Democracy: Malaysian Politics and People offers an up-to-date and broad analysis of the contemporary state of Malaysian politics and society.
Iraqi Shiism is undergoing profound changes, leading to new elaborations of the relationship between clerics and democratic principles in an Islamic state.
The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted.
What has Luce Irigaray's statement that women need a God to do with her thoughts on the relation between body and mind, or the sensible and the intelligible?
Hermes in the Academy commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (GHF) at the University of Amsterdam.
Parmenides es uno de los dialogos mas controvertidos de Platon, por su complejidad, sus artificios y su contenido, que siempre ha despertado el debate entre los especialistas.
Die Geschichte der Frauenordination in den aus der Reformation hervorgegangenen Kirchen setzt sich aus einer Fulle von Geschichten der Frauenordination zusammen.
Mandala's - Spiegel van de ziel is een inspirerend en toegankelijk boek dat je meeneemt in de wereld van mandala's, spiritualiteit en de taal van kleuren.
Die Geschichte der Frauenordination in den aus der Reformation hervorgegangenen Kirchen setzt sich aus einer Fulle von Geschichten der Frauenordination zusammen.
Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period.
This book analyzes the development of Jewish positions on the relationship between Church and State from the Revolution until the Great War It is a comprehensive study of the complex interplay among different segments of the Jewish population and the communitys attempt to come to terms with its social and religious status in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Noch immer werden Frauen, die sich in extremistischen Bewegungen engagieren, von der Forschung und Offentlichkeit kaum beachtet oder medial einseitig als "e;Terror-Braute"e; oder "e;Flinten-Weiber"e; dargestellt.
Fur die Anfange des Christentums sind lediglich zwei Sammlungen christlicher Texte bekannt, die als "e;Neues Testament"e; bezeichnet wurden - eine vor der Mitte des 2.
Noch immer werden Frauen, die sich in extremistischen Bewegungen engagieren, von der Forschung und Offentlichkeit kaum beachtet oder medial einseitig als "e;Terror-Braute"e; oder "e;Flinten-Weiber"e; dargestellt.
Josef, Joshua, Samuel, David and Jonathan, Josiah, Daniel and his three friends, Josef the son of David, and Timothy had something in common: they were all young men and believed in God; they were all young men and faithful servants of God; they were all young men and courageous.
Fur die Anfange des Christentums sind lediglich zwei Sammlungen christlicher Texte bekannt, die als "e;Neues Testament"e; bezeichnet wurden - eine vor der Mitte des 2.
This book weaves together philosophical, theological, psychoanalytical, and political paradigms, providing both a historicization and a theorization of the Israeli experience and encompassing social-political events in recent history and life in Israel.
