History of religion Books

Get ready to discover the legacy of early Islamic businessmen and their stories of faith, resilience and success. Dive into the fascinating world of Sahabah companions in business who broke barriers and set unprecedented examples of leadership and...

Raíces egipcias del cristianismo, tanto histórica como espiritualmente.La edición traducida al español revela las raíces egipcias antiguas del cristianismo, tanto histórica como espiritualmente. Este libro demuestra que los recuentos del "Jesús...

Discord and Light: A Connecticut Colony NovelDiscord and Light: A Connecticut Colony Novel is a work of historical fiction set in mid-1700s pre-revolutionary Connecticut. This era was marked by discord, challenges, and change, as the colonies grappled...

All praise is due to Allāh alone.May the peace and blessings of Allāh be upon our NobleProphet, after whom, there is no other prophet/ the lastMessenger of Allāh.Unfortunately, the Muslim Ummah of today is facing destruction,tribulation and division, due...

The Book Al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah is both the single most comprehensive account of the workings of Islamic governance and equally a highly influential theoretical outline of the nature of that governance. It is also as if it were a snapshot of the inner...

"The Quranic Law of Rise and Fall" is a thematic collection of Maulana Azad's articles which were published from time to time in his periodical "Al-Hilal". The overall outline that is compiled from these articles is that being a Muslim, the...

Numerous women are mentioned by name in the Qur'an. They comprise Muslim women as well as unbeliever women. The stories of women that are recounted in the Holy Qur'an have been told in a variety of ways. In addition to the preaching and wisdom styles,...

An Archaeo-linguistic Perspective on the Origins of Indian ChristianityIf you want to discover the hidden origin of Indian Christianity, then keep reading .....This is an archaeo-linguistic study of the origin of Indian Christianity, especially the...

Il testo, centrato sulla fase iniziale della diffusione del Cristianesimo, evento fondamentale del mutamento sociale e culturale dei popoli del bacino mediterraneo e dell'Europa, illustra l'attività delle comunità di cristiani delle origini e la...

À l'occasion du 16ème anniversaire de la mort de saint Jérôme, le traducteur de la Bible en latin - appelé Vulgate parce qu'il s'adressait à des gens simples, qui ne connaissaient ni le grec ni l'hébreu - le pape François nous a remis une lettre...

Compiled in the 14th century AD by a prominent Syrian scholar, the As-Seerah An-Nabawiyya of Imam Ibn Kathir is a full examination in chronological order, of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.Drawn from the earliest and most reliable Arabic...

Compiled in the 14th century AD by a prominent Syrian scholar, the As-Seerah An-Nabawiyya of Imam Ibn Kathir is a full examination in chronological order, of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.Drawn from the earliest and most reliable Arabic...

Compiled in the 14th century AD by a prominent Syrian scholar, the As-Seerah An-Nabawiyya of Imam Ibn Kathir is a full examination in chronological order, of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.Drawn from the earliest and most reliable Arabic...

Compiled in the 14th century AD by a prominent Syrian scholar, the As-Seerah An-Nabawiyya of Imam Ibn Kathir is a full examination in chronological order, of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.Drawn from the earliest and most reliable Arabic...

भाव गंगा जैसाकि पुस्तक के नाम से ही स्पष्ट है कि मन के सहज-सरल भावों के धरातल पर, सभी के मन को टटोलती हुई इस पुस्तक में लेखिका की प्रत्येक रचना या कविता ने समाज के प्रत्येक वर्ग को एक संदेश देने की निश्चल कोशिश की हैं। समाज में फैले हर अच्छे व बुरे विषय...

" On n'a pas laissé de remarquer quelquefois combien est grand le nombre des écrits consacrés à la vérité de la religion soit pour la défendre soit pour l'attaquer, et combien est petit le nombre de ceux qui ont pour objet son utilité au moins au point...

Beiträge von Wissenschaflter:innen und Studierenden zu den Nachhaltigen Entwicklungszielen der Vereinten Nationen (2015), die bei einer interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung sowie bei den „Entwicklungspolitischen Hochschulwochen" im WS 2019/20 an der...

In der 1905 begründeten Reihe Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom erscheinen wissenschaftliche Monographien und Aufsatzbände zur italienischen und deutschen Geschichte vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur jüngsten Vergangenheit.

Anläßlich des 200. Todestages von Moses Mendelssohn 1986 führte die Lessing-Akademie in Wolfenbüttel ein Symposium mit in- und ausländischen Gelehrten durch. Die Tagungsergebnisse werden in diesem Band vorgelegt. Die breitgefächerte Themenwahl zu...

Sefer Brantshpigl is an important Yiddish religious/ethical work first published in Cracow, 1596. It was reprinted six more times into the beginning of the eighteenth century and is an important source for the social and religious life of Central/East...

How could a pious, Christian mystic spread radical Enlightenment ideas and freedom of thought? Johann Konrad Dippel was a radical pietist, an alchemist, a philosopher, a medical doctor, a renegade, a firebrand. He was also one of the most-read authors of...

This study investigates the Old Greek translation of Job regarding its text, Vorlage, translation technique, literary contexts, and theological profile.To situate OG Job within its ancient contexts, both the strategies employed by the translators and the...

Aus Anlass von 500 Jahren Reformation haben in Taiwan namhafte Forschende der Theologie und Philosophie aus Deutschland, Schweiz, Kanada und den USA das Schriftprinzip, die Geistes- und Wirkungsgeschichte der Reformation dargelegt. Die Konferenz diente...

Since the Mediterranean connects cultures, Mediterranean studies have by definition an intercultural focus. Throughout the modern era, the Ottoman Empire has had a lasting impact on the cultures and societies of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean...

The story of the Stockbridge Mohican Indians, unlike that portrayed in the legendary Last of the Mohicans, is a story of tragedy and deceit, and yet one of endurance and strength. This proud people, despite the many efforts to remove their identity and...

This book is dedicated to all the honest seekers who are searching for the truth. After fifty years of sharing my faith, I realized that most people who reject the Bible have common objections. Here are some of the usual arguments voiced by people:1...

The Visigothic king of Spain, Gundemar, issues this edict to protect his authority over the Spanish church from some unspecified Byzantine bishops in North Africa. He announced regal supremacy in lands, utilizing church precedence via the See of Toledo.

It is obvious to thoughtful persons that our culture is undergoing a major transition--as is our religion, the carrier of values and guide to meaning. It is essential, therefore, that we understand how religion functions when a culture is alive and well...

Written and published in 1884, Léon Bloyʼs The Revealer of the Globe: Christopher Columbus and His Future Beatification is an attempt by the author to renew the Cause for Canonization of Christopher Columbus. This is part one of that work. It includes a...

Many hours of work have gone into the production of the volume you now hold in your hands. Many people have been a part of this project, and each one did it as a labor of love in order to bring this often forgotten part of Restoration Movement history to...

In accordance with prophecy, Jesus set up His eternal kingdom. But before long, Satan influenced men to start making changes in the structure of Christ's kingdom, the church. These changes took the form of doctrines, practices, and structures that...

People tend to place the Reformers on a pedestal and act like they completed the revolution, but they did not. Why was the Protestant Reformation only a partial restoration? It was because they used the literal method of interpreting the Bible...

A Vestal Virgin of ancient Rome, chosen to guard the  eternal flame within Vesta's Temple is faced with this challenge to follow her heart which stands in defiance of the most powerful empire of the world.Being true to herself and what she believed...

Read about old favorites, such as Augustine and Luther, and learn about the obscure, though equally influential Christians, such as Cocceius and Olevianus. This collection of short biographies details the lives of fifty-two professing believers who lived...

The Battle for Sovereign Grace in the Covenant recounts much of the gripping history of the schism of 1953 within the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC), the culmination of the hard fought battle for sovereign grace in the covenant. The book...

Against the Galileans (where "Galileans" meant the followers of the man from Galilee, or Christians) was written by the last pagan Emperor of Rome, Flavius Claudius Julianus, who lived from 331-363 AD, as part of his attempts to reverse the Empire's...

Presbyterians and the Irish Language by Roger Blaney, originally published in 1996, is the first to establish the rightful place of the Irish language in the Presbyterian heritage in Ireland. It traces the Presbyterian Irish-speaking tradition from its...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary. In this volume, the author, an Anglican priest and historian, argues that Bonhoeffer's powerful critique of Germany's moral derailment needs to be understood as...

Should a philosopher be vegetarian? This question had been famously answered in the affirmative in a classic work on philosophical vegetarianism: On Abstinence from Eating Animals, written by the Neoplatonist Porphyry in the third century AD. This study...

God's Queer Kin: The Secret Lives of LGBTQ+ Religious Figures is a groundbreaking exploration of the hidden stories and contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals in religions worldwide.Reverend Addison Clarke delves into ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu,...

The Bugis Chronicle of Bone is a masterwork in the historiographical tradition of South Sulawesi in Indonesia. Written in the late seventeenth century for a very specific political purpose, it describes the steady growth of the kingdom of Bone from the...