Newly revised, an overview of the Protestant Reformation includes a variety of source material that analyzes the origins of the Reformation, the teachings of the reformers, the movement's impact on the sixteenth century, and its influence on religious history. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Christianity is the most popular religion in the world: having long ago spread beyond its historic heartlands in Europe and the Near East, it has been embraced by hundreds of millions in the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and Asia. Christianity: The Illustrated History provides an accessible account of the religion’s origins and development, as well as its key ideas and concepts...read more

Product Description: Confessionalization in Europe, 1555-1700 brings together a closely-focused set of essays by leading scholars from the USA, UK, and Europe, in memory of Bodo Nischan. They address what historians of the Early Modern period have recently come to define as the pre-eminent issue in the history of the Reformation, as they turn their emphases from the earlier part of the 16th century to the relatively neglected latter half of the century...read more

'Edited by a Duke University religious scholar with more than 1,000 articles, this encyclopedia does for Protestantism what the New Catholic Encyclopedia did for Catholicism. Topics include biographies, historical data, and organizations, as well as cultural, social, and religious themes. Controversial topics, such as abortion, creation science, and homosexuality, are treated objectively. Topping it off are a thorough index and appendixes containing historical and contemporary statistical data. Nearly 500 contributors worldwide helped create this comprehensive source.'--'Reference that rocks,' American Libraries, May 2005.

Product Description: The events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, now called the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, changed forever the religious and political history of the West. This Historical Dictionary provides a one-volume, balanced alternative to the overwhelming amounts of literature on the events of the time and the theological and political debates that spawned those events...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)