Description
This is an integrated collection of essays by leading scholars that looks at issues of conflict, conversion and coexistence in the religious context since the third century. The range of topics explored include paganism and Christianity in the later Roman world, the Crusades, the impact of the Reformation in Britain and Ireland, subsequent Protestant-Catholic conflict, the Hindu Renaissance in nineteenth-century India, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Britain in the 1960s, women and the ministry, and Christianity, Judaism and the Holocaust. The book concludes by offering an historical perspective on religion, conflict and coexistence in the world today.
Published in association with The Open University, this is a student-friendly and accessible volume on popular subjects within religious history, and it will be of value to students on a range of courses, as well as to a wider readership interested in the historical background to the role of religion in the contemporary world.
About the Author
John Wolffe is Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University
Book Information
ISBN 9780719071072
Author John Wolffe
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Weight(grams) 603g
Dimensions(mm) 248mm * 187mm * 18mm
