History of religion Books

A History Of New England Theology (1899) is a comprehensive examination of the development of theology in New England during the 18th and 19th centuries. Written by George Nye Boardman, a prominent Baptist minister and historian, the book explores the...

""A History of the Church, in Five Books: From A.D. 332 to the Death of Theodore of Mopsuestia A.D. 427"" is a historical account of the early Christian Church written by Theodoretus in 1843. The book is divided into five sections, each covering a...

A History of Christianity is a comprehensive book written by Rudolf Sohm in 1891. The book chronicles the history of Christianity from its inception to the 19th century. It covers the development of Christian doctrines, the rise of the papacy, the...

""A Help to Knowledge: Chiefly Religious, In Extracts from the Most Approved Writers, Arranged Systematically"" is a book written by Thomas Chamberlain in 1839. The book is a collection of religious writings and extracts from various authors, organized...

For too long, members of the GLBT community have been castigated and condemned by mainstream religions. The community's very existence is branded as being against the teachings of the Bible and the word of God. Furthermore, it is stated that community...

The saints have forever intrigued me since I was a small child with their strength, faithfulness and their Christian beliefs and multiple sacrifices. How truly compelling, interesting and fascinating were the lives of the saints. What an inspiration...

This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a...

This volume offers new insights on Jewish-Gentile relations and the evolution of belief in the early Jesus movement, suggesting that the New Testament reflects the early stages of a Gentile challenge to the authority and legitimacy of the descendants of...

Taking a fresh look at the roots and implications of the enduring major historic fissure in Western Christianity, this book presents new insights into the historical dynamics of Protestant-Catholic conflict while illuminating present-day contexts and...

Religiosity is one aspect without which Ethiopian society cannot be fully understood. This book aims to map out the terrain of the discourse in religion-social change nexus in Ethiopian using the notion of covenant as an interpretive tool.

With a diverse list of contributors, this volume seeks to discuss in depth some of the key issues that migration poses to World Christianity in the fields of constructive theology, ethics, spirituality, mission, ministry, inculturation, interreligious...

This edited volume of specially commissioned essays written for the anniversary of `Abdu'l-Baha's journey to America tells the story of this former prisoner's interactions with the white upper echelon of American society as well as his impact on the...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

""I Papiri Copti del Museo Borgiano della S.C. de Propaganda Fide"" ����� un libro scritto da P. Agostino Ciasca nel 1881. Il volume tratta dei papiri copti, ovvero antichi documenti scritti in lingua copta, conservati nel Museo Borgiano della Sacra...

""I Martiri Cosentini Del 1799"" ����� un libro scritto da Pasquale Rossi nel 1899 che racconta la storia dei martiri di Cosenza durante la rivoluzione del 1799. Il libro descrive gli eventi che portarono alla rivolta e alla successiva repressione da...

""I Fratelli Bandiera e Loro Compagni Martiri a Cosenza (1863)"" di Felice Venosta ����� un libro che narra la storia dei fratelli Bandiera e dei loro compagni martiri, che furono giustiziati a Cosenza nel 1844 a causa del loro tentativo di rivolta...

Het boek ""Het Klooster Te Windesheim En Zijn Invloed, Part 3 (1880)"" geschreven door Johannes Gerhardus Rijk Acquoy vertelt over de geschiedenis van het klooster in Windesheim en de invloed die het had op de omgeving. Het is het derde deel van een...

""I Martiri Italiani"" ����� un'opera in tre parti scritta da Anton Maria Bonetti come risposta all'opuscolo ""I Martiri Pontificii Ossia Storia Dei Mezzi Morali Della Rivoluzione Italiana"" del 1891. Il libro racconta la storia dei martiri italiani che...

""Grobe Unwahrheiten von und �����ber Luther"" ist ein Buch von Johann Baptist Rohm, das im Jahr 1884 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Buch besch�����ftigt sich Rohm mit der Person Martin Luthers und stellt dabei einige seiner Ansichten und...

""Gram�����tica, Vocabulario, Catecismo y Confesionario de la Lengua Chibcha: seg������n antiguos manuscritos an������nimos e in�����ditos, aumentados y corregidos"" es un libro de Ezequiel Uricoechea, publicado en 1871. Este libro es una...

""Gott und Palingenesie, Teil 1"" ist ein philosophisches Werk von August Cieszkowski, das erstmals 1842 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch befasst sich mit der Idee der Wiedergeburt oder Wiederauferstehung und ihrer Beziehung zu Gott. Cieszkowski...

""Gott und sein Reich"" ist ein Buch von Melchior Meyr, das im Jahr 1860 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit der Frage nach der Existenz Gottes und seinem Einfluss auf die Welt. Meyr geht dabei auf verschiedene philosophische und...

Islam in Russia is a rare scholarly attempt to understand the tolerant nature of Islam in the modern Russian Federation since the state's official acceptance of Islam and is a useful resource for students and scholars of Global Islam, Islam in Europe,...

Jesus Christ walked this earth for about 33 years. Of them, only the last 909 days (two and a half years) were spent in public ministry. After his death and resurrection, his words, deeds, and actions were recorded in four different gospels for all to...

A Benedictine Reader, 530-1530, has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and deep a sense of the reality of the first one thousand years of Benedictine monasticism as can be done in...

This book contains the works of a group of Evangelical mission "reflective practitioners," who are committed to developing ways to evangelize the Buddhist peoples of the world. As various forms of Buddhism gain popularity, this network tries to disclose...

An inner-city English Catholic parish, close to Liverpool docks, which embodies two hundred years of Liverpool's heritage and history. Using documentary evidence and the reminiscences of the people who have lived and worked there, this book tells the...

In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the...

History tells of political and social unrest in Egypt around the time of President Anwar Sadat n 1981. President Sadat exiled His Holiness Pope Shenouda to the monastery of St Bishoy on 3 September 1981. What followed was the imprisonment of several...

Simon versus Simon is the coming-of-age story of Lucius, a wealthy young citizen of Rome with a rebellious edge, whose father sends him away to apprentice as a carpenter in Judea. His father intends that the hard work teach Lucius a lesson. Instead,...

The Seder is a concise modern Haggadah for adults and children alike.  It lays out each step of the Passover Seder and provides stepping off points for discussion.  Laura Stillman Carraro's cut paper collage illustrations offer a delightful...

God's Solution for America ~ and the Nations of the World is another unprecedented and inspiring work by David and Jean Hertler, authors of the compelling two-volume series entitled, Re-inhabited: Republic for the United States of America.Since the...

Gene Roberts is a passionate student of God’s word with a unique interest for the book of the Apocalypse. The Apocalypse reveals God’s master plan. The Father sent his son Jesus into this world to save his followers from eternal separation...

How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today. Oliver Leaman explores some of the controversies and debates that exist within Islam and between Islam and other...

Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world's religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century...

Rabbi Loew (the Maharal) of Prague remains one of the most influential and prolific Jewish thinkers of his time. Widely considered one of the fathers of Hassidic thought and a harbinger of Modern Jewish philosophy, his life and work have retained their...

This book explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity, from the Bible to the present. The lessons of this book rest squarely on the much-quoted insight: 'you are what you eat.' But this book goes beyond that simple truism to recognise that...

If Theophilus of Alexandria seems a minor figure today, it is because we persist in seeing him through the eyes of hostile contemporary witnesses, each of whom had his own reasons for diminishing Theophilus' stature. In fact, he was one of the greatest...

John Macquarrie examines here, the lives and writings of a range of Christian mystics, both men and women, over a vast period of time -from Biblical times to present day. He presents their teachings, mostly in their own words, and shows how their ideas...