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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A leading scholar brings religion to its senses by exploring the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion Humans are needy. We need things: objects, keepsakes, knickknacks, bits and pieces, junk and treasure. As Brent Plate argues in A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects, exploring the stuff of everyday existence is a fresh window into the way humans have formed religious communities, performed rituals, and...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as religion, history, culture, art, archaeology, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word? In Philology, the first...
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Language
English
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Mark Gregory Pegg's history of the Middle Ages opens and closes with martyrdom, the first that of a young Roman mother in a North African amphitheater in 203 and the second a French girl burned to death beside the Seine in 1431. Together, they take readers from the vastness of the Roman Empire to small communities between the Mediterranean and the North Sea, from the nomads of the Asian steppes to the triumphant Church of Latin Christendom. Beatrice's...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set around 1400 years ago during the early years of Islam. Relates the events that unfolded and led to the rise of a renewed religion in the Arabian desert, eventually spanning 7 continents and counting 1.6 billion adherents around the world. Introduces Islam's prophet, known as Muhammad.
28) Genghis Khan and the quest for God: how the world's greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom
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Language
English
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"Reveals how Genghis Khan harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. By the New York Times best-selling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World,"--NoveList.
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Language
English
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These 24 extraordinary lectures offer you the rare opportunity to relate your own spiritual questions to a variety of ancient quests for meaning and transcendence. Professor Muesse looks at the historical conditions in which the world religions arose and explores how they answered shared metaphysical and human dilemmas. The Axial Age - a pivotal era between 800 and 200 B.C.E. - saw the rise of many of the world's religions in Iran, South Asia,
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2013, ©2009.
Language
English
Description
The emergence of Japan as a political and economic global power has been one of the most remarkable success stories of modern history. For all readers wanting to better understand this dynamic country, this popular and accessible introduction offers an authoritative yet concise overview of two thousand years of Japanese history. Now fully updated to the present, this edition includes photographs and maps. Highlighting key historical events, Milton...
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB144
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Description
Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as...
32) Queens and prophets: how Arabian noblewomen and holy men shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Academic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Arab noblewomen of late antiquity were instrumental in shaping the history of the world. Between Rome's intervention in the Arabian Peninsula and the Arab conquests, they ruled independently, conducting trade and making war. Their power was celebrated as queen, priestess and goddess. With time some even delegated authority to the most important holy men of their age, influencing Arabian paganism, Christianity and Islam. Empress Zenobia and Queen...
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