This collection of papers, many of them either published here in English for the first time or previously available only in specialist libraries, deals with the religious history of the Roman Empire. Written by leading scholars, the essays have contributed to a revolutionary change in our understanding of the religious situation of the time, and illuminate both the world religions of Christianity and Judaism and the religious life of the pagan Empire in which these developed and which deeply influenced their characters. No knowledge of ancient languages is presupposed, so the book is accessible to all who are interested in the history of this crucial period.

Product Description: The Great Exhibition of 1851 is routinely portrayed as a manifestly secular event which was confined to celebrating the success of science, technology, and manufacturing in the mid-Victorian age. Geoffrey Cantor presents an innovative reappraisal of the Exhibition, demonstrating that it was widely understood by contemporaries to possess a religious dimension and that it generated controversy among religious groups...read more

Product Description: Was ist Religion? greift den Titel eines Kolloquiums auf, welches Edmund Weber 2008 an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main zur kritischen Betrachtung religionstheoretischer Ansätze sowie moderner und traditioneller Glaubenskulturen durchgeführt hat...read more

Product Description: This book deals with the early philosophical development of Hegel. It analyzes and comments Hegel's so called theological writings and the Differenzschrift and it gives new insight in the origin of Hegel's famous dialectical thinking.

Product Description:  Too often, consideration of African American religious expression is limited to considerations of black churches or to aspects of Islamic thought and practice. This comprehensive overview reveals the tremendous diversity of the African American religious communities in America by examining black spiritual churches, Buddhism, humanism, Judaism, Nation of Islam, Protestant churches, the Roman Catholic Church, Santería, Sunni Islam, and voodoo...read more

Reviews theories which have been put forward to account for the origin and nature of religion, and covers both empirical (sociological, anthropological and psychological) theories and religious theories (revelation, religious experience, mysticism, etc.). The text asks 'Why theories of religion?'.

Product Description: A survey of religious practices in central and north west Spain in the Iron Age and early Roman periods. The author discusses the literary and archaeological sources for our knowledge of Celtic ritual in this region and then examines the evidence for a range of named gods and goddesses...read more