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The Methodists and Revolutionary America is the first in-depth narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the most significant popular movements in American history. Placing Methodism's ……続きを見る

The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served ……続きを見る

Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguabl……続きを見る

Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily acc……続きを見る

In Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in J……続きを見る

Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ In December 1983, a pri……続きを見る

In the ancient Jewish practice of the kavannah (a meditation designed to focus one’s heart on its spiritual goal), Lawrence Kushner and David Mamet offer their own reactions to key verses from each ……続きを見る

Sainted Women of the Dark Ages makes available the lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. Written in Latin by contemporaries or near contempo……続きを見る

Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement. The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two ……続きを見る

Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these……続きを見る

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them a……続きを見る

This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is h……続きを見る

Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’……続きを見る

Следи за своим сердцем всю жизнь и присматривайся, и прислушивайся к нему, что препятствует к соединению его с всеблаженным Богом? Это да будет наука наук, и ты при помощи Божией легко можешь замеча……続きを見る

The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine an……続きを見る

Я имел счастье видеть и читать дневники отца Иоанна Кронштадтского в подлиннике. Помню, у меня перебывало разной формы и величины шестнадцать тетрадей, исписанных рукой великого светильника. К сожал……続きを見る

Страницы дневника святого праведного Иоанна Кронштадтского за май ー ноябрь 1908 года содержат его размышления последних месяцев жизни. В то время Батюшка пользовался огромной популярностью и почита……続きを見る

Весь материал, вошедший в состав настоящего сборника "Живое слово мудрости духовной", взят из последних дневников праведного отца Иоанна Кронштадтского и из слов его, произнесенных в 1905-1906 годах……続きを見る

Trying to understand how “civilized” people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of b……続きを見る

**Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist** The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to b……続きを見る

A comprehensive survey of Judaism, its history, beliefs, practices and customs, branches and sects, from its founding to the present day.続きを見る

A comprehensive overview of Catholic belief and practices, aimed at undergraduates and faith sharing groups.続きを見る

The Union Haggadah ed. by The Central Conference of American Rabbis Should enemies again assail us, the remembrance of the exodus of our fathers from Egypt will never fail to inspire us with new cou……続きを見る

PRIAPEIA-sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus translation by Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton The Priapeia, now for the first time literally and completely translated into English ver……続きを見る

Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Samuel Rapaport A popular Midrash compilation. "This is the (unattributed) source for the next two entries' Midrash extracts. This book has the references for ea……続きを見る

Thoroughly updated and revised for 2024, JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY is the history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City and the Holy Land, from King David to the wars and chaos of toda……続きを見る

Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American ……続きを見る

Abraham Cohens Ancient Jewish Proverbs contains hundreds of Jewish proverbs and sayings, many from the Talmud and Mishna. The proverbs are divided into categories, such as Family Life, Human Existe……続きを見る

In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudiceーboth an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries ac……続きを見る

Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe "The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe (first published by John Day in 1563, with many subsequent editions, also by Day), is an apocalyptically oriented English Prote……続きを見る