Religion : History

This Encyclopedia is the definitive reference to the history and beliefs that continue to exert a profound influence on Western thought. more...

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In European Paganism , Ken Dowden outlines and analyses the diverse aspect of pagan ritual and culture from human sacrifice and pilgrimage to luna worship. more...

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Since the 1730s Evangelicalism has been an important religious tradition in Britain. It moulded society in the nineteenth century and was itself transformed by the cultural forces at work in society. This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal today. The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety of Nonconformist denominations and sects in England, Scotland and Wales are discussed, but the book concentrates on the broad patterns of change affecting all the churches. It shows the great impact of the Evangelical movement on nineteenth-century Britain, accounts for its resurgence since the Second World War and argues that developments in the ideas and attitudes of the movement were shaped most by changes in British culture. The contemporary interest in the phenomenon of Fundamentalism, especially in the United States, makes the book especially timely. more...

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This book studies in detail five twelfth- and thirteenth-century polemicists from southern France and northern Spain. These are the first known Jewish polemicists from western Christendom, who identified their perceptions of major Christian challenges, and the lines of response proposed to fellow Jews who came increasingly under religious pressure. more...

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Provides both valuable information and stimulating debate on the lives and work of fifty of the most important Christian theologians, from the emergence of the faith 2000 years ago to the present day. more...

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