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How Jesus Became Christian
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 22.00In How Jesus Became Christian , Barrie Wilson asks "How did a young rabbi become the god of a religion he wouldn?t recognize, one which was established through the use of calculated anti-Semitism?" Colourfully recreating the world of Jesus Christ, Wilson brings the answer to life by looking at the rivalry between the "Jesus movement," informed by... more...
Winds From the North
BRILL 2010; US$ 146.00This book raises important questions about the origins of Pentecostalism including the role of Azusa, missionaries, women, and the controversy surrounding Oneness Pentecostalism and the Latter Rain revival. The Canadian story highlights important developments that illustrate the transnational and innovative qualities of the movement. more...
The Hermits
ReadHowYouWant 2008; US$ 4.99Books for All Kinds of ReadersReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our... more...
One Nation Under God
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 19.00Based on the most extensive survey ever conducted on religion in America, One Nation Under God delivers surprising revelations about the religious beliefs, practices, and affiliations of Americans. "These statistical findings provide rich material for interpretation of the uniquely American religious experience."-- Publishers Weekly. From the... more...
The Language and Logic of the Bible
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 27.00This is a sequel to the author's The Language and Logic of the Bible: The Earlier Middle Ages. more...
Jainism
I.B.Tauris 2009; US$ 25.00Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in front of them to ensure that living creatures are not inadvertently crushed: a practice of non-violence so radical as to defy easy comprehension. Yet for all its apparent exoticism, Jainism is still little understood... more...
Isis on the Nile. Egyptian Gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
BRILL 2010; US$ 168.00The diffusion of the cults of Isis is recently again intensively studied. Research on this fascinating phenomenon has traditionally been characterised by its focus on L'Egypte hors d'Egypte, while developments in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself were often seen as belonging to a different domain. This volume tries to overcome that unhealthy... more...
Zoroastrianism
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 25.00Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. In present-day Iran, significant communities of Zoroastrians (who take their name from the founder of the faith, the remarkable religious reformer Zoroaster) still practise the rituals and teach the moral precepts that once undergirded the officially state-sanctioned faith of the mighty... more...
Jesus
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 9.99Two billion people today identify as Christians, with the implication that Jesus is the focus of their relationship with God, and their way of living in the world. Such followers of Jesus are now more numerous and make up a greater proportion of the world's population than ever before. Despite its decline in the West, Christianity is rapidly increasing... more...
The Penguin History of the Church
Penguin Books Ltd 1993; Not AvailableExamines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world more...









