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This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact……続きを見る

Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the p……続きを見る

At a glance, the Hebrew Bible presents the Levites as a group of ritual assistants and subordinates in Israel's cult. A closer look, however, reveals a far more complicated history behind the emerge……続きを見る

Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present. While the teaching of Darwinian evolution was common……続きを見る

Producing Christian Culture takes as its thread the 'interpretative genres' within which medieval people engaged with the Bible. Contributors to the volume present specific material as a case study ……続きを見る

Jesus and Muhammad lived in different times and in different contexts. An absolute comparison of the careers of these two men is not a satisfactory method in understanding the similarities and diffe……続きを見る

In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achieve……続きを見る

Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in N……続きを見る

Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade……続きを見る

Is belief that Jesus is God reasonable? Can someone of good intelligence, open mind and enquiring spirit, acquire, hold and defend that belief today? Here sound reasoning and solid evidence to suppo……続きを見る

Powerful imagery creates a 'you are there' immersion in the story of the post-Flood world. Kacy Barnett-Gramckow fans raved about her extraordinary job of bringing the Flood to life in the Heavens B……続きを見る

He was the dominant intellectual figure of his age. His published works, including the Principia Mathematica and Opticks, reached across the scientific spectrum, revealing the degree of his interdis……続きを見る

Islam and its Past: J?hiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an. The co……続きを見る

This new book by historian David Ohana analyzes Zionism and the Israeli state as a theological ideology. The book pursues this provocative end by showing the dialectical tension between Judaism and ……続きを見る

Walter-Jörg Langbein gibt einen breiten Überblick über die vielen Gottesbilder der Religionen - von der Vorzeit bis heute. Vom Vielgötterglauben der Urzeit bis zum Eingottglauben, vom Judentum und C……続きを見る

Die Bibel ist das Buch, ohne das man nichts versteht – nicht die Grundlagen unserer Kultur, nicht die Schöpfungen der Kunst und Literatur. Und die Bibel steckt voller phantastischer Geschichten, vom……続きを見る

Aus dem Inhalt: I. Reformation und soziale Bewegung II. Thomas Müntzer und die radikale Reformation III. Das Täufertum und das Königreich Sion in Münster (1534/35) (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine……続きを見る

Richard van Dülmen untersucht die gesamte Spannbreite der sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Dimension von Religiosität. Sein Interesse gilt der Volksreligion, die jenseits kirchlicher Institutio……続きを見る

This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then……続きを見る

Hidden Treasures Of The Ancient Qabalah by Elias Gewurz Strength and beauty are the two attractive elements of our nature, but the masculine strength and the feminine beauty are in reality one and ……続きを見る

Uno de los mayores monoteísmos de la historia, con una historia llena de esplendor militar, artístico y científico y un presente convulso y turbulento: el Islam contado desde su origen. El Islam nac……続きを見る

**Will the real Martin Luther please stand up? After five hundred years of examining the life of the “father of the Reformation,” we must surely know all there is to know about Martin Luther. But is……続きを見る

This book provides a political history of north India under Afghan rulers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Focusing on interconnections between religion and politics, it also rai……続きを見る

Although the young Edward VI's death in 1553 led to resounding defeat for his Protestant allies, his reign has a significance out of all proportion to its brief six-year span. For during its course ……続きを見る

Desde los inicios de la civilización, el hombre he pretendido responder al sentido de su propia existencia, a su misión en la tierra y a qué le espera tras la muerte, la respuesta a estas preguntas ……続きを見る

"La autora ofrece un recorrido histórico sobre el enigmático dilema religioso y filosófico en torno del alma, del karma y de la reencarnación. Hace un repaso de los principales hallazgos de la terap……続きを見る

A lo largo de toda la humanidad, los lugares de culto y veneración de los dioses y fuerzas sobrenaturales, se han construido de piedra y en lugares especialmente sensibles que conectan los más duro ……続きを見る

How should Christians think about the relationship between the exercise of military power and the spread of Christianity? In Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War, Betsy Perabo looks at the R……続きを見る

El escritor y político Juan Bosch dedicó sus mejores dotes literarias a la reivindicación de la figura histórica de Judas Iscariote. El rigor y la amenidad de su escritura, elogiada por escritores c……続きを見る

Las cruzadas fueron y son en la actualidad un motivo de reflexión para historiadores y políticos del panorama mundial, y en este libro se analizan con detenimiento todas las cruzadas realizadas desd……続きを見る