The twenty-first century has seen energy passing between religious and political worldviews, kicking up dust around the identity- and conviction-based fault lines in American society. While many evangelical Christians have developed and deployed a "worldview theory" to describe and locate themselves within the world's ideological strife, Jacob ......
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These "practical guides" present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of ......
This is the story of the region where monotheism multiplied, where Christianity came into being, where Judaism reinvented itself, and where Islam won some of its greatest triumphs. This book tells the story of the monotheistic faiths in Galilee from Jesus and Josephus to the Crusades.
This book is about embracing change for one of the most sacred ceremonies in Jewish tradition. Cantor Axelrod explains that the ceremony needs to be adapted to a more personal approach, connecting the original traditions to what's most important to the student's life. This allows a more positive path to preparing and learning about the ceremony.
This book is about embracing change for one of the most sacred ceremonies in Jewish tradition. Cantor Axelrod explains that the ceremony needs to be adapted to a more personal approach, connecting the original traditions to what's most important to the student's life. This allows a more positive path to preparing and learning about the ceremony.
The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America
Irreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christians-is there a divorce coming? Much attention has been paid to political polarization in America, but far less to the growing schism between progressive and conservative Christians.
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In ......
This study examines the work of Matthew Spinka and Howard Kaminsky on medieval Hussites. The author analyzes their numerous contributions to our understandings of religious and social movements in late medieval Europe.
Using newly available secondary and archival sources, One Family: Before, During, and After the Holocaust, Third Edition, successfully provides readers with a dynamic portrait of this one family as a microcosm of what happened to families throughout Europe during the Holocaust.
