First published in 1866, "A History of the Huguenots" is an essential historic work by W. Carlos Martyn, an excellent and inspiring tale of the Huguenots, an ethnoreligious group of French Protestan……続きを見る
The ancient House of Israel consisted of 12 families, or tribes, named for the 12 sons of Jacob (Israel). Ten of those tribes were conquered, driven from their homelands, and scattered throughout th……続きを見る
In "The Religion of Numa," Jesse Benedict Carter intricately examines the religious practices and beliefs of ancient Rome, particularly those associated with Numa Pompilius, the legendary second kin……続きを見る
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon……続きを見る
The 'Book of Deeds' is the first known autobiography by a Christian king. Its author was James I of Aragon (1213-76), known as 'The Conqueror', one of the great political figures of 13th-century Eur……続きを見る
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies.
Studies in Jaina History and Culture……続きを見る
著者:Niall Christie
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2020年04月01日
Muslims and Crusaders combines chronological narrative, discussion of important areas of scholarly enquiry and evidence from Islamic primary sources to give a well-rounded survey of Christianity’s w……続きを見る
In "The Makers and Teachers of Judaism," Charles Foster Kent offers a comprehensive historical analysis of the evolution of Jewish thought and practice from its ancient roots to the contemporary era……続きを見る
“For readers in search of a thoughtful, thorough, and approachable survey of the history of religion, this book is an excellent place to start.”ーBooklist
Written for those with faith and for those ……続きを見る
This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and e……続きを見る
In "History of Religion," Allan Menzies embarks on an ambitious exploration of the evolution of religious thought and practice across different cultures and epochs. This comprehensive work is charac……続きを見る
BHAI SAHIB RANDHIR SINGH (1878-1961) was an outstanding freedom-fighter and a great saint and theologian who has made a lasting contribution to the religious and cultural revival in Punjab, and was……続きを見る
For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched o……続きを見る
In "Judaism," Israel Abrahams provides an in-depth exploration of the fundamental principles, practices, and historical contexts of the Jewish faith. Through a meticulous blend of scholarly analysis……続きを見る
"Tanakh" or, The Hebrew Bible, which is also sometimes called the Miqra, is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah. The form of this text that is authoritative for Rabbin……続きを見る
The Christian doctrine of justification is of immense interest to historians and theologians ,and continues to be of major importance in modern ecumenical discussions. The present work appeared in i……続きを見る
著者:Erica Ferg
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2020年01月22日
Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of geography on religion and highlights a largely unknown story of religious history in the Eastern Mediterr……続きを見る
著者:Danica Summerlin
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2019年11月28日
Alexander III's 1179 Lateran Council, was, for medieval contemporaries, the first of the great papal councils of the central Middle Ages. Gathered to demonstrate the renewed unity of the Latin Churc……続きを見る
Women's literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of the English literary tradition. Women, W……続きを見る
In A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean, Robert Clines retraces the conversion and missionary career of Giovanni Battista Eliano, the only Jewish-born member of the Society of Jesus. He high……続きを見る
Even a slight acquaintance with European history reveals the existence of a number of curious and apparently unreasonable beliefs prevalent throughout a period extending from early medieval to compa……続きを見る
Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement, THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age, the rise of Islam, and ……続きを見る
著者:Paul McKechnie
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2019年08月31日
Paul McKechnie explores how Christianity grew and expanded in Roman Asia over the first three centuries of the religion. Focusing on key individuals, such as Aberkios (Avircius Marcellus) of Hierapo……続きを見る
Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that the pragmatic medieval view of the natur……続きを見る
This collection of papers by leading international experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to study and record in detail i……続きを見る
This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic o……続きを見る
Roman Tales: A Reader’s Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory.
This book draws the reader deep ……続きを見る
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority
In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal Stat……続きを見る
What did dreams mean to Egyptian Christians of the first to the sixth centuries? Alexandrian philosophers, starting with Philo, Clement and Origen, developed a new approach to dreams that was to hav……続きを見る
出版社: The American University in Cairo Press
発売日: 2016年05月02日
Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preserv……続きを見る