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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579109349Author NestoriusFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)...

This book is an exploration of illness and healing experiences in contemporary society through the veneration of saints: primarily the twin doctors Saints Cosmas and Damian. It also follows the author's personal journey from her role as a hematologist...

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror-to turn its vision of a Communist world without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627950084Author Sean MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shelter Harbor PressPublisher Shelter Harbor PressWeight(grams) 485g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805789Author Barbara O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Empire and Emancipation explores how the agency of Scottish and Irish Catholics redefined understandings of Britishness and British imperial identity in colonial landscapes. In highlighting the relationship of Scottish and Irish Catholics with the...

Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802843685Author Robert E.Van VoorstFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising...

How the English Reformation was Named analyses the shifting semantics of 'reformation' in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally denoting the intended aim of church councils, 'reformation' was subsequently redefined to denote...

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How have humans sought to prevent viable assumptions about themselves and their world from being in force, how does this propensity manifest itself, and in what terms has it been theorized and criticized throughout the ages? Through a diversity of...

New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed. Over the last two decades, scholarship has presented a more nuanced...

This work attempts to unify material on religion from various fields into one coherent framework, showing that it has evolved just like any other cultural entity. Religion is presented as a complex phenomenon, a complexity arising not from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788482395722Author Professor Rene GroussetFormat PaperbackImprint Palabra EdicionesPublisher Palabra Ediciones

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In this book, anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson contests Mircea Eliade's theory of the existence of a universal Homo Religiosus and argues that "religion" as a discrete concept is a Western construct, an invention of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788495359629Author Juan VernetFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint El AcantiladoPublisher El Acantilado

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From early Christianity to the emergence of Islam, the long late antiquity denotes a truly revolutionary period in the history of religions. In many ways, religious ritual patterns and theological worldviews were then radically transformed throughout the...

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Despite her physical suffering due to a tragic accident and her great material poverty, Anna Schaffer from Mindelstetten (1882-1925) led a life of great love for God and neighbor. The secret of her earthly life was that of an intimate union with Christ...

What did Paul mean when he wrote that the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom? Through close analysis of the sixteenth-century reception of Paul's discourses of folly, this book examines the role of the New Testament in the development of what...

This research project assesses the extent to which religion influences standards and behaviour in business, by comparing Islamic banking to co-operative banking as carried out by both Christians and Muslims. The study argues that Islamic banks are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781966823049Author Gary Wendell Stanfield, SrFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Parker PublishersPublisher Parker PublishersWeight(grams)...

Edition of rare surviving litanies from the middle ages, providing evidence for monastic worship. The litanies of the monastic orders in England, above all those of the Benedictines, are key witnesses of devotion to the saints of the British Isles,...

An Unnatural History of Religions examines the origins, development, and critical issues concerning the history of religion and its relationship with science. The book explores the ideological biases, logical fallacies, and unwarranted beliefs that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349378616Author B KnightonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans. When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a...

Are sports the new American religion? Arthur Remillard, a seasoned scholar of religion and sports, hears this question frequently. Often, it is prompted by the contrast between the waning of traditional religious institutions and the thriving, cash-rich...

An Evangelical Adrift is a theological biography of John Henry Newman (1801-1890) that reconstructs the most formative period in his development: the years between his teenage conversion to evangelicalism in 1816 and the beginning of the Tractarian...

Divine epithets serve a variety of purposes, with the most frequent being those related to the locations and functions of the gods. Epithets derived from individual names, however, have received less attention. While few studies have focused on the Greek...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511629Author Padraig O RiainFormat HardbackPage Count 740Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 1200gDimensions(mm)...

In the early 1930s, a wave of Marian apparitions - cases in which visionaries reported seeing and receiving messages from the Virgin Mary - swept over Belgium. With over forty apparition sites and hundreds of visionaries, the Belgian apparitions, often...

The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe. Focusing on the fate of French Protestants who fled to the Dutch Republic,...

Praeger, in collaboration with the distinguished International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Jerusalem, and in association with Israeli's Open University, has undertaken the publication of this multi-volume series. Binah brings...

The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision...