Religious and ceremonial art

Bob Tennant presents a history of the missionary work, cultures, and rhetoric of the Church of England in 1760-1870, when it was the predominant organizer of Protestant overseas missions.

Asians make up the largest and most dispersed peoples of the world, and Christians make up a sizable proportion of this demographic.

This book offers a critical analysis of the use of language in mission studies.

Mission Shaped Church, the groundbreaking report published in 2004 has sold over 20,000 copies and has changed the way mission is done.

The problem of the barbarous excess of human suffering is becoming the main question of global Christianity.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEARA revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast'Richly woven, highly readable .

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Zur Zeit der Renaissance porträtierten die italienischen Maler traditionell die Frauen ihrer Mäzene als Madonnen.

Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with religious values similar to those of their professional counterparts in America and Europe.

God's word begins with the tree of life and the tree of knowledge watered by a river nourishing Eden.

Negotiating Identity addresses the missiological problem of why the Hakka Chinese Christian community in Taiwan is so small despite evangelistic efforts there for more than 140 years.

The church is in major decline in the Western world.

For two-and-a-half millennia these two psalms have been commented on, translated, painted, set to music, employed in worship, and adapted in literature, often being used disputatiously by Jews and Christians alike.

In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of anti-Semitic iconography in the Middle AgesThe straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel-the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symbols for identifying Jews.

In the grip of serious numerical decline, American Evangelical churches are now experiencing a missional movement.

"e;Worth Keeping is more than worth just reading.

Secularization, as a movement away from a religious orientation to life, is strong in Canada and has influence worldwide.

William Blake famously imagined 'Jerusalem builded here' in London.

Weighing Approaches to Finish the TaskChristians have been reflecting on best practices for as long as they have been engaging in missions.

The emerging church movement has quickly become one of the fastest growing ecclesiological phenomena in the west today.

By Scalpel and Cross: A Missionary Doctor in Old Korea is the story of a Presbyterian medical missionary told against the background of Korea in the first half of the twentieth century, decades before the astounding rise of South Korea.

In many oral cultures local proverbs are highly regarded for their wisdom and prized for their aesthetic expression.

Samuel Wells shares his vision for the Church as imagined by HeartEdge, the growing network of churches established by St Martin-in-the-Fields, with its fourfold focus for renewing the mission activity of the church: commerce, culture, congregation and compassion.

In an engaging and accessible style, Martin J.

China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well.

An essay on the religious significance of the person in philosophy of beauty, aesthetic experience, and the philosophy of art.

Since the first funerary statues were placed in the first sepulchres, the ideas of death and the afterlife have always held a prominent place at the heart of the art world.

Is Jesus really the only way?

This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times.

Amy Oxley Wilkinson was a well-known missionary in both China and the West in the early twentieth century.

Shows how fifteenth-century writers explored the complex relationships between visual and verbal images.

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale.

After more than twenty years since the fall of the USSR, the evangelical movement in post-Soviet society has entered a crucial phase in its historical development.

Too Soon to CelebrateToo Soon to QuitLord, why another mission agency?

The Baroque period was in some senses the beginning of modern Western scientific and intellectual culture-the early budding of the Enlightenment.

Beginning with a 'Street Nativity Play' that didn't end as planned, and finishing with an open-ended conversation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, "e;Being Interrupted"e; locates an institutionally-anxious Church of England within the wider contexts of divisions of race and class in 'the ruins of empire', alongside ongoing gender inequalities, the marginalization of children, and catastrophic ecological breakdown.

Perspectives on the World Christian Movement presents a multi-faceted collection of readings exploring the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic dimensions of world evangelization.