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Examining the law and public policy relating to religious liberty in Western liberal democracies, this book contains a detailed analysis of the history, rationale, scope, and limits of religious fre……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

On November 10, 1975, the General Assembly of United Nations passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism a form of racism. Afterward, a tall man with long, graying hair, horned-rim glasses, and a……続きを見る

The startling, frighteningly convincing sequel to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail that reveals the very nature of the Messianic Legacy. After the shocking revelations of The Holy Blood and the Hol……続きを見る

A thousand years ago, the Chinese government invited merchants from one of the Chinese port synagogue communities to the capital, Kaifeng. The merchants settled there and the community prospered. Ov……続きを見る

The Book of the Cave of Treasures translated from the Syriac by E. A. Wallis Budge And in the days of Nimrod, the mighty man (or giant), a fire appeared which ascended from the earth, and Nimrod wen……続きを見る

The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White The Conflict Between Good and Evil Watch the evening news. Turn on your car radio. Scan today's newspaper. What do you see? Hear? Read? A mix of news, good an……続きを見る

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Reformation was a long struggle of ideas between the established Catholic Church and the questioning of faith brought about by the Renaissa……続きを見る

Never before in history has anyone ever been able to hear only the words of Christ personally unless you lived at the time he did and was near enough to hear him speak about the true meaning and pur……続きを見る

Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas of a single god, the cosmic struggle between good……続きを見る

The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one……続きを見る

Mucha gente vive y convive con las cuestiones religiosas toda su vida y no encuentra motivos para dudar de ellas. Muchos otros perciben algo fuera de lugar, que no encaja, pero la inercia de las ide……続きを見る

Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and sha……続きを見る

Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion by David Hume SOME People are subject to a certain delicacy of passion, which makes them extremely sensible to all the accidents of life, and gives them a lively……続きを見る

Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays f……続きを見る

This Gem provides a guide to the lives of the most popular saints – who they were, how they became saints and for whom they have a particular importance. This guide to saints contains brief biograph……続きを見る

Most of our modern day religions are based on the premise that God, the creator and boss of the universe (the man in the sky), spoke directly to some prophet explaining the mysteries of life and giv……続きを見る

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen’s Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004’s most talked about books……続きを見る

Collection Of Ancient Near East Volume 2 This book presents a clear, concise history of the extraordinarily multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. Beginning with the emergence of writ……続きを見る

Volumes five and six contain c. 25 pieces of manuscript material, or rare tracts many of which have been available for the first time. 続きを見る

Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Hall Chamberlain This is a collection of Ainu folktales, by the translator of the Kojiki. "The Ainu are an ethnic minority in Japan, living primarily on the northernmost Jap……続きを見る

Charles Webster Leadbeater (16 February 1854 1 March 1934) was a prominent early member of the Theosophical Society, author on the occult and co-founder with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic ……続きを見る

The Legends of the Jews (Volume III: From the Exodus to the Death of Moses) by Louis Ginzberg Forty years in the wilderness transformed Hebrew slaves into the Jewish people. In the long wandering to……続きを見る

For the first time, Sing a New Song tells the stories of four Canadian bishops who pushed the envelope and changed the world. All have faced severe opposition; one was involved in the only Anglican ……続きを見る

Josephus fought the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman War as a Jewish military leader in Galilee. After the the Romans invaded, killing thousands, Josephus and one of his soldiers surrendered to the ……続きを見る

The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the politica……続きを見る

In this engrossing exploration of martyrdom, Lacey Baldwin Smith takes us on a riveting journey through history as he examines one of the most baffling characteristics of the human species: its will……続きを見る

Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian. ‘Summer of Blood’ breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381……続きを見る

During most of the twentieth century, Archibald J. Carey, Sr. (1868-1931) and Archibald J. Carey, Jr. (1908-1981), father and son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African Amer……続きを見る

The Reformation of the 16th century has always been seen as one of the pivotal events in European history. Lord Acton, the famous 19th-century British historian, compared the importance of Martin Lu……続きを見る