Theology
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Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts [Hardback]
Ousmane Oumar Kane(Editor); Abdulkadir Hashim(Contributor); Alessandra Vianello(Contributor); Antonio de Diego González(Contributor); Britta Frede(Contributor); Ousmane Oumar Kane(Contributor); Zachary V. Wright(Contributor); Dahlia E.M. Gubara(Contributo
$130.00ISBN: 9781847012319
Published by : James Currey
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
Volume: 5
The study of Islamic erudition in Africa is growing rapidly, transforming not just Islamic studies, but also African Studies. This interdisciplinary volume from leading international scholars fills a lacuna in presenting not only the history and s... .... Learn More -
The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary [Hardback]
Liz Herbert McAvoy(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845980
Published by : D.S. Brewer
Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
Volume: 4
During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular... .... Learn More -
Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda [Hardback]
Jonathon L. Earle(Author); J.J. Carney(Author); Jonathan L. Earle(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012401
Published by : James Currey
Series: Religion in Transforming Africa
Volume: 4
Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive politician, and his legacy is still divisive. On the eve of independence, he led the Democratic P... .... Learn More -
Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire [Paperback]
Johanna Dale(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781903153987
Published by : York Medieval Press
The long twelfth century heralded a fundamental transformation of monarchical power, which became increasingly law-based and institutionalised. Traditionally this modernisation of kingship, in conjunction with the ecclesiastical reform movement, h... .... Learn More -
Imagining the Divine: Art in Religions of Late Antiquity across Eurasia [Paperback]
Jaś Elsner(Editor); Rachel Wood(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9780861592340
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 234
This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 200−1000), across cultures and regions reaching from India to Iberia, to discuss how objects can inform our understanding of religions. Duri... .... Learn More -
Rational Dissenters in Late Eighteenth-Century England: An ardent desire of truth' [Hardback]
Valerie Smith(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275663
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
Volume: 42
Rational Dissent was a branch of Protestant religious nonconformity which emerged to prominence in England between c. 1770 and c. 1800. Based on the sole study of the Scriptures and the application of individual reasoning to understanding the word... .... Learn More -
Music, Liturgy, and Confraternity Devotions in Paris and Tournai, 1300-1550 [Hardback]
Sarah Ann Long(Author)
$110.00ISBN: 9781580469968
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Volume: 174
Starting in the fourteenth century, northern France saw the rise of confraternities and other lay communities of men and women, organized around trades and religious devotions dedicated to specific patron saints. The composition of new plainchant ... .... Learn More -
The Right Ordering of Souls': The Parish of All Saints' Bristol on the Eve of the Reformation [Paperback]
Clive Burgess(Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781783275847
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Volume: 47
In the two centuries preceding the Reformation in England, economic, political and spiritual conditions combined with constructive effect. Endemic plague prompted a demonstrative piety and, in a world enjoying rising disposable incomes, this linke... .... Learn More -
Città di Vita - a. LXXV, n. 3, maggio-giugno 2020: Bimestrale di Religione, Arte, e Scienza della Basilica di Santa Croce in Firenze [Paperback]
Edizioni Polistampa(Author)
$15.00ISBN: 9788859621089
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
EDITORIALE Eugen Rachiteanu, Chiara Marconi, «Città di Vita». Religione, arte, e cultura… uno sguardo sul contemporaneo da 75 anni Jan Wladyslaw Wos, Il 75° anniversario della rivista «Città di Vita&... .... Learn More -
The Consistory and Social Discipline in Calvin's Geneva [Paperback]
Jeffrey R. Watt(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781648250040
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
Volume: 22
Created by John Calvin, the Consistory of Geneva was a quasi-tribunal entrusted with enforcing Reformed morality. Comprised of pastors and elders, this body met weekly and summoned people for a wide range of "sinful" behavior, such as dr... .... Learn More
