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| Author | : Linda Woodhead |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0199687749 |
This is a short, accessible analysis of Christianity that focuses on its social and cultural diversity as well as its historical dimensions.
| Author | : Merry Wiesner-Hanks |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2005-06-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113476121X |
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World is the first global survey of such for the early modern period. Merry Wiesner-Hanks assesses the role of personal faith and the church itself in the control and expression of all aspects of sexuality. The book ranges over developments within Europe and beyond to the European colonies including Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Goa, which were establishing themselves around the world. Christian missionaries and rituals and structures accompanied all of the imperial powers and the control of the sexuality of both indigenous peoples and colonists was an essential part of policy. The book is introduced with a clear, original and engaging account of the central concepts in the study of sexuality in Christianity, such as shame, sin, the body, marriage and gender. Drawing on diverse evidence including literary, medical and historical the following sections chart changes in Western Christianity in the Late Middle Ages, Protestantism and Catholicism in Europe, Orthodoxy in Eastern Europe and Russia, and finally the Spanish, Portuguese, English and Dutch Colonies. Merry Wiesner-Hanks exciting book covers both the ideas and effects in each period. Christianity and Sexuality in the early Modern World includes discursive bibliographies which discuss major books and articles at the end of each chapter.
| Author | : Rodney Stark |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 1997-05-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0060677015 |
This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won—for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better, more secure way of life. "Compelling reading" (Library Journal) that is sure to "generate spirited argument" (Publishers Weekly), this account of Christianity's remarkable growth within the Roman Empire is the subject of much fanfare. "Anyone who has puzzled over Christianity's rise to dominance...must read it." says Yale University's Wayne A. Meeks, for The Rise of Christianity makes a compelling case for startling conclusions. Combining his expertise in social science with historical evidence, and his insight into contemporary religion's appeal, Stark finds that early Christianity attracted the privileged rather than the poor, that most early converts were women or marginalized Jews—and ultimately "that Christianity was a success because it proved those who joined it with a more appealing, more assuring, happier, and perhaps longer life" (Andrew M. Greeley, University of Chicago).
| Author | : Charles Freeman |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2009-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 030012581X |
"Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent - from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state - Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of 'correct belief' and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church's relationships with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, and the church fathers and emperors."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Brian Stanley |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 501 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0691196842 |
"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity"--Amazon.com.
| Author | : Fernanda Alfieri |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2021-03-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3110643979 |
The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).
| Author | : Callum G. Brown |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1135115532 |
The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh history of de-christianisation, and predicts that the British experience since the 1960s is emblematic of the destiny of the whole of western Christianity. Challenging the generally held view that secularization has been a long and gradual process beginning with the industrial revolution, it proposes that it has been a catastrophic short term phenomenon starting with the 1960's. Is Christianity in Britain nearing extinction? Is the decline in Britain emblematic of the fate of western Christianity? Topical and controversial, The Death of Christian Britain is a bold and original work that will bring some uncomfortable truths to light.
| Author | : Bart D. Ehrman |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2018-02-22 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1786073021 |
How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West? In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was God’s messiah. Less than four hundred years later it had become the official religion of Rome with some thirty million followers. It could so easily have been a forgotten sect of Judaism. Through meticulous research, Bart Ehrman, an expert on Christian history, texts and traditions, explores the way we think about one of the most important cultural transformations the world has ever seen, one that has shaped the art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics and economics of modern Western civilisation.
| Author | : Merry E. Wiesner |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 565 |
| Release | : 2013-02-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107031060 |
Thoroughly updated best-selling textbook with new learning features. This acclaimed textbook has unmatched breadth of coverage and a global perspective.
| Author | : Rose-Marie Peake |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Religious communities |
| ISBN | : 9789462986688 |
The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charité, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century. An analysis of the activities aimed at edifying morality in the different strata of society revealed a Christian anthropology with strong links to medieval traditions. The book argues that this was an important survival strategy for the Company with a disconcerting religious identity: the non-cloistered lifestyle of its members engaged in charity work had been made unlawful in the Council of Trent. Moreover, the directors Louise de Marillac and Vincent de Paul also had to find ways to curtail internal resistance as the sisters rebelled in quest of a more contemplative and enclosed vocation.
