Founded over a century ago, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is regarded as one of the most important institutional carriers of Canadian and American Mennonite identity.
The Protestant Reformation has long had the reputation as being a movement of "e;the Book"e;, led by reformers like John Calvin who were "e;men of the Book"e;.
Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New York City area -- two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian.
Winner- Best Scholarly Work, National Huguenot Society, 2018The Edict of Nantes ended the civil wars of the Reformation in 1598 by making France a kingdom with two religions.
The explosion of the church in Nigeria is phenomenal, with a forward momentum that is as remarkable as the missionary optimism of the first century Church.
Mitten im Basler Musikleben – die Musik-Akademie Basel 1867–2017Eine Institution im Wandel der Zeit … Zum 150-jährigen Jubiläum der Basler Musikschule als Keimzelle der heutigen Musik-Akademie greifen die hier versammelten Essays prägnante Themen zur Musikausbildung und Musikaufführung auf.
Längst gehört es zum guten Ton, sich über den historischen Stil zu informieren, wenn man Musik einer bestimmten Epoche aufführen möchte – nicht mehr nur bei Spezialisten, sondern unabhängig vom Instrumentarium und quer durch alle Ensembles.
A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America's thirties and forties.
Der Katalog erschließt auf der Grundlage des Handschriftenkatalogs von Paul Kast aus dem Jahr 1958 die Mikrofiche-Edition Musikhandschriften der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – preußischer Kulturbesitz, Teil 1: Die Bach-Sammlung.
Apenas se comenzó a dividir el día en horas, personas de diversas tradiciones religiosas incluyendo el judaísmo y el cristianismo, han marcado el tiempo con la oración.
Winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters' Nonfiction Award The dominant narrative of the role of white citizens and the white church in Mississippi's civil rights era focuses on their intense resistance to change.
This collection of 30 well-loved original compositions and arrangements for piano presents a selection of pieces by Frederic Chopin that will delight any pianist.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
This book explores the church's engagement with worship and theology as a result of the pandemic, especially as it relates to digital worship and the means of grace.
The past three decades have witnessed a significant transatlantic and trans-disciplinary resurgence of interest in the early nineteenth-century Protestant theologian and philosopher, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834).
A major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's careerThe Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteenth century.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
Musicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology, memory, and space.
Paul Eber (1511-1569) war nach Melanchthons Tod die zentrale Gestalt der Wittenberger Theologie und wirkte reichs- und europaweit als Ratgeber für zahlreiche lutherische Städte und Territorien.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, die Vikare und jungen Pfarrer im Predigerseminar der Bekennenden Kirche in Finkenwalde lebten eine neue Form christlicher und theologischer Existenz.