This book offers a distinctive and compelling examination of artworks as vital historical documents, utilizing a multifaceted lens to delve into the cultural and artistic landscape of a particular era. By analyzing Papal commissions in Rome from the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198892755)
Mani was a major religious figure in third-century Mesopotamia. The community he founded, known as Manichaeism, lasted for over a thousand years. Mani wrote many letters and this volume provides a detailed study of the letters as well as a new Engli...Loe edasi...
Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces which housed generations of elite women. Until now they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early mode...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479840731)
Traces earlier revolutions in the history of reading to orient our shift to the digital ageConsidered one of the greatest inventions of human civilization, writing has served as a pathway to culture and education through history. Th...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Divided into four parts, the handbook covers key historical connections between Australia and the events of the Holocaust, includ...Loe edasi...
This book examines the theology that shaped and created leading Anglican theologian Handley C.G. Moule’s understanding of the Christian life. It examines Moule’s work in its historical context and according to his major theological emphases to rev...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197553442)
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The Swast...Loe edasi...
This book explores why Pentecostal Christianity has flourished in China more than nearly any other imported religious movement. Tracing its origins from the arrival of the first Pentecostal missionaries in 1907, this study shows how Pentecostal spir...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Thomas Nelson Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781400355532)
Experience the soul of American history through Faith of America: 250 Prayers for America. This remarkable collection intertwines faith, patriotism, and timeless wisdom, offering a powerful reminder of how prayer has shaped our nations identity....Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, The Changing Parish is the first modern sociological account of the changing Roman Catholic parish in England. It identifies the major changes in parishes and in the roles of parish priests and parishioners....Loe edasi...
This book presents primarily firsthand information from some mysterious and unpublished archaeological sites excavated in the Swat Valley in the 1980s. In addition,...Loe edasi...
The first book based exclusively on Arabic sources in the study of the early modern religious encounters between Western Europe and the Islamic Mediterran...Loe edasi...
This book offers a nuanced historical analysis of the profound impact of Ibn Battuta’s extensive travels across Asia, Africa, and Europe. As one of the most significant figures of medieval Islamic history, Ibn Battuta’s journey not only d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839452)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839469)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
Why did Jews become devoted Democrats, and why did the Democrats turn on them?For the past 100 years, Jews have famously been at the forefront of every liberal cause in America. They were overrepresented in the Civil Rights Movement,...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus and its interactions with Latin Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean under King Henry II (1285–1324). This book discusses the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus and its interactions with La...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477333020)
The intertwining story of a noted anti-Nazi artist and the former rabbi who revived his reputation. During World War II, the Polish-Jewish immigrant Arthur Szyk became America’s leading anti-Nazi artist. His art was so effective that...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the history and historiography of the Heresy of the Free Spirit, the name given to a group of individuals in the late Middle Ages who believed that their spiritual perfection had reached such a state that they were una...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009600989)
When the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949, China was still a religious society. In this landmark contribution, Steve Smith examines the paradox of supernatural politics, showing that we cannot understand the meaning of the revolution to...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009600934)
Bringing an often-neglected aspect of modern Chinese history to the fore, Steve Smith shows how folk religion maintained a vital presence in everyday life in China after 1949. This unique history gives readers a vivid sense of life under Mao Zedong...Loe edasi...
This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths, Bronowski was prominent in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, history and literary criticism, and is perhaps best remembered tod...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009714709)
How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? This book considers, not emperors and bishops, but those who served the state as courtiers, bureaucrats, and governors and argues that that they could be seen-and indeed, could see themselves-as...Loe edasi...
How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? This book considers, not emperors and bishops, but those who served the state as courtiers, bureaucrats, and governors and argues that that they could be seen-and indeed, could see themselves-as...Loe edasi...
Calvin and Perception in Early Modern Visual Culture is the first monograph to return John Calvins Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) to its original visual culture. AnnMarie Bridges draws on early modern optics, art theory, rhetoric, psyc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009562041)
Calvin and Perception in Early Modern Visual Culture is the first monograph to return John Calvins Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) to its original visual culture. AnnMarie Bridges draws on early modern optics, art theory, rhetoric, psyc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009220347)
An ambitious and learned, yet at the same time engaging, account of the complex and often contradictory European attempts to define what is meant by religion, which were rooted in stories, ideas and debates going back deep into antiquity and made...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009492058)
This Element is composed of three sections that explore Gregory of Nyssas understanding of the resurrected life. It engages across multiple works to demonstrate that, for Gregory, Christs resurrected body affects the bodies of all humans who choos...Loe edasi...
This Element is composed of three sections that explore Gregory of Nyssas understanding of the resurrected life. It engages across multiple works to demonstrate that, for Gregory, Christs resurrected body affects the bodies of all humans who choos...Loe edasi...
History has shown that antisemitism reactivates and rises like a latent viral infection at the slightest crisis humanity faces. Could literature provide an explanation for its endurance? So, this book takes us back to the nineteenth century with the...Loe edasi...
Hindus, Jews, and the Politics of Comparison argues that comparative studies of Hindu and Jewish traditions can generate alternative epistemologies, critically interrogating the Eurocentric and Protestant-based paradigms in the academy that have per...Loe edasi...
This book offers a distinctive and compelling examination of artworks as vital historical documents, utilizing a multifaceted lens to delve into the cultural and artistic landscape of a particular era. By analyzing Papal commissions in Rome from the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198892755)
Mani was a major religious figure in third-century Mesopotamia. The community he founded, known as Manichaeism, lasted for over a thousand years. Mani wrote many letters and this volume provides a detailed study of the letters as well as a new Engli...Loe edasi...
Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces which housed generations of elite women. Until now they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early mode...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479840731)
Traces earlier revolutions in the history of reading to orient our shift to the digital ageConsidered one of the greatest inventions of human civilization, writing has served as a pathway to culture and education through history. Th...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Divided into four parts, the handbook covers key historical connections between Australia and the events of the Holocaust, includ...Loe edasi...
This book examines the theology that shaped and created leading Anglican theologian Handley C.G. Moule’s understanding of the Christian life. It examines Moule’s work in its historical context and according to his major theological emphases to rev...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197553442)
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The Swast...Loe edasi...
This book explores why Pentecostal Christianity has flourished in China more than nearly any other imported religious movement. Tracing its origins from the arrival of the first Pentecostal missionaries in 1907, this study shows how Pentecostal spir...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Thomas Nelson Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781400355532)
Experience the soul of American history through Faith of America: 250 Prayers for America. This remarkable collection intertwines faith, patriotism, and timeless wisdom, offering a powerful reminder of how prayer has shaped our nations identity....Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, The Changing Parish is the first modern sociological account of the changing Roman Catholic parish in England. It identifies the major changes in parishes and in the roles of parish priests and parishioners....Loe edasi...
This book presents primarily firsthand information from some mysterious and unpublished archaeological sites excavated in the Swat Valley in the 1980s. In addition,...Loe edasi...
The first book based exclusively on Arabic sources in the study of the early modern religious encounters between Western Europe and the Islamic Mediterran...Loe edasi...
This book offers a nuanced historical analysis of the profound impact of Ibn Battuta’s extensive travels across Asia, Africa, and Europe. As one of the most significant figures of medieval Islamic history, Ibn Battuta’s journey not only d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839452)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839469)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
Why did Jews become devoted Democrats, and why did the Democrats turn on them?For the past 100 years, Jews have famously been at the forefront of every liberal cause in America. They were overrepresented in the Civil Rights Movement,...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus and its interactions with Latin Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean under King Henry II (1285–1324). This book discusses the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus and its interactions with La...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953786)
In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies o...Loe edasi...
This volume, the latest contribution to the international Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJH), investigates New Testament and Septuagint descriptions of theophanic interactions with the world. The CJH project aims to improve the underst...Loe edasi...
The Holy Land is more than a sanctified geographical space that roughly corresponds to the Roman province that has been known as Palaestina since the end of the Bar Kochba War. Instead, it is primarily an idea and imaginative space created by a compl...Loe edasi...
In dieser kritischen Edition analysiert Jeremy R. Brown 105 bislang kaum erschlossenen Handschriften des äthiopischen Jonabuches, rekonstruiert deren Textgeschichte und Überlieferung vom 14. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert und identifiziert fünf Texttypen m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477333020)
The intertwining story of a noted anti-Nazi artist and the former rabbi who revived his reputation. During World War II, the Polish-Jewish immigrant Arthur Szyk became America’s leading anti-Nazi artist. His art was so effective that...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824899554)
Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, Lords of Life is the fifth and last book of a multivolume project that stands as a milestone in our understanding of the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhismspecifically the nature a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9798880701995)
From the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, Japanese aristocrats attributed their afflictions to vengeful spirits of the deceased. But in the late twelfth century, a new and anomalous ailment, caused not by spirits but the material dead, crept into...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the history and historiography of the Heresy of the Free Spirit, the name given to a group of individuals in the late Middle Ages who believed that their spiritual perfection had reached such a state that they were una...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009600989)
When the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949, China was still a religious society. In this landmark contribution, Steve Smith examines the paradox of supernatural politics, showing that we cannot understand the meaning of the revolution to...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009600934)
Bringing an often-neglected aspect of modern Chinese history to the fore, Steve Smith shows how folk religion maintained a vital presence in everyday life in China after 1949. This unique history gives readers a vivid sense of life under Mao Zedong...Loe edasi...
Dieser Band prüft das within Judaism-Paradigma als Heuristik statt als Prämisse. Die Beiträge untersuchen die Entstehung ntl. Texte im Pluralismus des antiken Judentums. Durch Analysen zu Grenzen, äußeren Wahrnehmungen und literarischen Genres wir...Loe edasi...
This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths, Bronowski was prominent in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, history and literary criticism, and is perhaps best remembered tod...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009714709)
How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? This book considers, not emperors and bishops, but those who served the state as courtiers, bureaucrats, and governors and argues that that they could be seen-and indeed, could see themselves-as...Loe edasi...
How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? This book considers, not emperors and bishops, but those who served the state as courtiers, bureaucrats, and governors and argues that that they could be seen-and indeed, could see themselves-as...Loe edasi...
Calvin and Perception in Early Modern Visual Culture is the first monograph to return John Calvins Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) to its original visual culture. AnnMarie Bridges draws on early modern optics, art theory, rhetoric, psyc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009562041)
Calvin and Perception in Early Modern Visual Culture is the first monograph to return John Calvins Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) to its original visual culture. AnnMarie Bridges draws on early modern optics, art theory, rhetoric, psyc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009220347)
An ambitious and learned, yet at the same time engaging, account of the complex and often contradictory European attempts to define what is meant by religion, which were rooted in stories, ideas and debates going back deep into antiquity and made...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009492058)
This Element is composed of three sections that explore Gregory of Nyssas understanding of the resurrected life. It engages across multiple works to demonstrate that, for Gregory, Christs resurrected body affects the bodies of all humans who choos...Loe edasi...
This Element is composed of three sections that explore Gregory of Nyssas understanding of the resurrected life. It engages across multiple works to demonstrate that, for Gregory, Christs resurrected body affects the bodies of all humans who choos...Loe edasi...
Dies ist die arabische editio princeps des christlichjüdischen Disputs von Tomei (Thmuis), Ägypten, um 620, mit einer erstmaligen vollständigen Übersetzung ins Englische. Der weitgehend historische Bericht in griechischer Sprache behandelt einen the...Loe edasi...
Stefano De Feo untersucht den Gebrauch des Lexems in antiken jüdischen, christlichen und griechisch-römischen Traditionen. Die Analyse dieses zentralen Begriffs in verschiedenen Quellen zeigt auf innovative Weise, wie Vorstellungen vom Ende durch...Loe edasi...
History has shown that antisemitism reactivates and rises like a latent viral infection at the slightest crisis humanity faces. Could literature provide an explanation for its endurance? So, this book takes us back to the nineteenth century with the...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the historical and cultural dimensions of Jerusalem through the lens of world literature and art.Jerusalem inspired creation of various world literary works, spanning different time periods and contributing to v...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The British Academy, ISBN-13: 9781805965787)
The evangelisation of the peoples of western Europe to Christianity was arguably the single most important historical development of the early Middle Ages, shaping not only the beliefs and religious practices but also the social, political, cultural...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: James Clarke & Co Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780227180990)
The he descended into hell phrase of the Apostles Creed caused a major controversy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, yet this debate has been largely overlooked in modern scholarship. Camlin reapproaches the descensus clause in the conte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781805967262)
The Paulicians were perhaps the most curious threat to imperil the Roman Empire in the east. This mission triggered the composition of an unusual collection of works, including an extended history of the Paulicians, and three sermons and florilegia...Loe edasi...
Discover fifty historical treasures that will reinvigorate your exploration of the BibleIf the Bible is inspired and inerrant, then the archaeological record will affirm it. And it does. In Faith-Affirming Findings, Bible sch...Loe edasi...
