From the world-renowned authority on religion comes a completely revised and updated version of his masterpiece. Explore the essential elements and teachings of the world's most predominant faiths, including: Hinduism; Buddhism; Confucianism; Taoism; Islam; Judaism; Christianity; the native traditions of Australia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Originally titled The Religions of Man, this completely revised and updated edition of Smith's masterpiece, now with an engaging new foreword, explo...
A remarkable example of Christian poetry expressing St Ephrem's awareness of the sacramental character of the created world, and of the potential of everything in the created world to act as witness to the Creator. With a translation from Ephrem's Commentary on Genesis.
A is for Abductive
by Leonard I. Sweet, Brian D. McLaren, and Jerry Haselmayer
This handsomely-bound large print volume contains the Gospel Readings according to the Common Worship calendar of the Church of England. Using the NRSV translation of the Bible, it presents in full the readings for the Principle Service on Sundays, Feasts, Festivals, Holy Days and other special occasions, Years A, B and C. Bound with a ribbon, and featuring an icon-style illustration of Jesus Christ on its front, it is particularly appropriate for processional use.
Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest the most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the US have lost more than half of their members, and they have experinced a massive upheaval in what they believe and how they work and live. In this book Peter McDonough and Eugene Bianchi draw on interviews and statements gathered from more than 400 Jesuits and former Jesuits to provide an intimate look at the turmoil a...
For Peace and For Good is the history of the influential Anglican religious order, the Community of St Francis. Written with the full co-operation of the community, it sets their story against the wider backdrop of the lives of St Clare and St Francis, and the extraordinary surge of women's vocations to the religious life during the Catholic revival in the Church of England. It explores the lives of its founding members, its growth, the various branch houses, and the work and ministries in whic...
Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself. Author Monique M. Ingalls argues that participatory worship music performances have brought into being new religious social constellations, or "modes of congregating". Through exploration of five of these modes—concert, conference, church, public, and networked congregations—Singing the Congregation reinvigorates the analytic categories of "congregation" and "congregational music." Drawing from theoreti...
This is a serious, scholarly of liturgy analysis combining historical, philosophical, musicological and liturgical. The volume, like the series, will be aimed at moving the debate about liturgy out of the narrow confines of either 'pastoral liturgy', 'reform of the reform' or nostalgia and bemoaning of the ruination of liturgical tradition to an entirely higher plane, of serious, scholarly, measured analysis combining historical, philosophical, musicological and liturgical. This book advances a...
" , autrement dit, on ne saurait grimper sur un arbre avec un seul bras> " (Sagesse Beti/Cameroun, pour exprimer la notion de solidarite). Prenant comme point de depart l'hypothese que la notion de solidarite dans l'enseignement social de l'Eglise catholique connait un reseau d'influences et d'heritages historiques, philosophiques, sociologiques et ethiques; cette etude se propose de montrer en premier lieu, l'evolution du concept de solidarite ne en France au XIXeme siecle jusqu'a son usage dan...
Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, #56)
The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609-1614) represents an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing which affected about 300,000 persons. The controversial measure was legimitized by an ideology of religious and political unity that served to defend the expulsion of them all, crypto-Muslims and sincere converts to Christianity alike. The first part focuses on the decision to expel the Moriscos, its historical context and the role of such institutions as the Vatican...
Knights Hospitaller: A Military History of the Knights of St John
by John Carr
The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order. Their fervour and discipline made them an elite component of most Crusader armies and Hospitaller Knights (as they were also known) took part in most of the major engagements, including Hattin, Acre and Arsuf. After the Muslims had reconquered the Crusader King...
