Religious and ceremonial art

This study presents the religious dynamics of the Wolaitta Kale Heywet Church in southern Ethiopia from 1937 to 1975.

In The Missional Leader, consultants Alan J.

In this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts, chromos, and engravings.

Teaching in the southern African nation of Botswana in the early 1980s, Richard Christensen faced a new world, one endlessly fascinating and challenging.

Berkeley Street Theatre chronicles Christian World Liberation Front's 1969-1975 ministry to the counterculture.

Systematically explores the affinity and the rivalry between art and religion, focusing at length on music, visual art, literature, and architecture in turn.

One hundred years ago Roland Allen authored his landmark study Missionary Methods: St.

Les arts de l’Islam ne sont pas les arts d’une nation ni ceux d’un peuple, mais ceux d’une religion, l’Islam.

The mission to the Gentiles and their conversion into the church gave rise to conflict in the early Christian community.

Islamic art is not the art of a nation or of a people, but that of a religion: Islam.

Christians are called to minister to people in prison.

Given the consistent challenge of Islamist acute violence, particularly in Nigeria, this monograph attempts to respond to the question: How can Jesus's followers pattern response to violence after Jesus's model demonstrated in his triumph over death, evil, sin, and violence through staurocentric pathways?

In the author's ten years living in China, Chinese friends and foreign friends alike have told him that in many ways he is more like a Chinese person than an American.

While most churches offer 'new member classes' and genuinely seek to welcome visitors, too often the end result is a rush to assimilate the newcomer into formal membership and all of the invitations to participation in committees, choirs, or fellowship groups that go along with it.

William Blake (1757-1827) is considered one of the most singular and brilliant talents that England has ever produced.

The word "e;ethics"e; carries an aura of countervailing views, overlapping claims, uncertain footing, and seductive attractions.

"e;For the sake of the world, we question.

Mainstream American evangelicalism is facing an identity crisis.

Imagine traditional congregations in the United States and Canada sending missionaries across the street from their church buildings to express the kingdom of God within a postmodern culture and among disenfranchised Christians.

A "e;brisk and entertaining"e; (Wall Street Journal) journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an explanation that stood for centuries.

Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings.

Films are modern spiritual phenomena.

A down-to-earth guide that syncs theology with technology.

Dieser Eranos-Band zum Thema Apokalypse ist ein Plädoyer für den Aufbruch des inneren Menschen durch Bewusstseinswandlung und eine neue Haltung zum Göttlich-Geistigen.

Peter Paul Rubens gilt als einer der größten Meister des Barock – ein Visionär, der die Kunst seiner Zeit revolutionierte und Emotionen, Bewegung und Farbe in eine einzigartige Harmonie verwandelte.

"e;Adam Parfrey is one of the nation's most provocative publishers.

This revisionist study challenges the received opinion that in its earliest manifestations Christianity was a form of religiosity opposed both on principle and in fact to the use of pictures.

How did Christian missions happen in the early church from AD 100 to 750?

With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures.

The essays in this volume, which are written by friends, colleagues, and former students, are dedicated to Gary B.

This volume traces its origins to the 2001 annual meeting of the Evangelical Missiological Society with the theme of "e;Lessons in Mission from the Twentieth Century.

American Presbyterians have a remarkable heritage of foreign mission work.

A guide to the joys, struggles, and calling of missionsDr.

"e;The Devil holds the strings which move us!