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Since the late 1980s the theme of God's self-revelation has been treated only briefly in Christian theology, at times simply ignored, and often confused with biblical inspiration. Revelation: Toward……続きを見る

In Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism, offers a concise and highly accurate look at the history and character of the various ……続きを見る

Philipp Melanchthon war der wichtigste Weggefährte Luthers – und viel mehr als das. Der leise und stotternd sprechende kleine Griechisch-Professor war der eigentliche Kommunikator der Reformation: E……続きを見る

The belief that America has been providentially chosen for a special destiny has deep roots in the country’s past. As both a stimulus of creative American energy and a source of American self-righte……続きを見る

Histories of the USSR during World War II generally portray the Kremlin’s restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church as an attempt by an ideologically bankrupt regime to appeal to Russian nationalis……続きを見る

Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved west to farm or to seek a new beginning. Scott Rohrer argues that Protestant migrants in early America relocated in search of salv……続きを見る

For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. The Church in America, historians insist, forged an “American ……続きを見る

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in s……続きを見る

Most twentieth-century Americans fail to appreciate the power of Christian conversion that characterized the eighteenth-century revivals, especially the Great Awakening of the 1740s. The common disd……続きを見る

In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left t……続きを見る

The United States has long been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This boo……続きを見る

In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word “Puritan,” he says, accurately depicts a major……続きを見る

Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions ope……続きを見る

With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day. Based on unprecedented research in missionary archives as well……続きを見る

So strongly associated is the Salvation Army with its modern mission of service that its colorful history as a religious movement is often overlooked. In telling the story of the organization in Ame……続きを見る

In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging pr……続きを見る

The Reformer John Calvin has influenced America in a formative way. Calvin remains respected as a theologian to whose work intellectuals on both the right and left appeal. In the nineteen-nineties, ……続きを見る

Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian c……続きを見る

Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former cap……続きを見る

In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate ……続きを見る

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive substance that has long been associated with indigenous Amazonian shamanic practices. The recent rise of the drink’s visibility in the media and popular culture, and its ……続きを見る

Recent critical studies of late modernism have explored the changing sense of both history and artistic possibility that emerged in the years surrounding World War II. However, relatively little att……続きを見る

More than a generation after the rise of women’s history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dy……続きを見る

During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and……続きを見る

This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries ー from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first collecti……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre las cruzadas en Tierra Santa, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podr……続きを見る

Eine verschollene Stadt. Eine verbotene Schrift. Eine Kirche der Frauen. Ostern, der Mythos von Kreuzigung und Auferstehung – so steht es geschrieben. Aber da war noch sehr viel mehr. An den Ursprün……続きを見る

Arguably the most influential work of systematic theology in the history of Christianity, Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae has shaped all subsequent theology since it was written in the late thirtee……続きを見る

Book description: Como foi que Jesus de Nazareth, um pregador judeu, terminou sendo chamado “Filho de Deus” e adorado por milhões de crentes? Este controvertido, mas reflexivo livro mostra como, ao ……続きを見る

Today, 23 percent of the global population is Muslim, but ignorance and misinformation about Islam persist. In this fascinating and useful book, the acclaimed writer Perry Anderson interviews the no……続きを見る