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Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories
ISBN: 9780060574895 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible and Abraham, travels ten thousand miles through the heart of the Middle East--Israel, Iraq, and Iran--and examines the question: Is religion tearing us apart ... or can it bring us together? Where God Was Born combines the adventure of a wartime chronicle, the excitement of an archaeological detective story, and the insight of personal spiritual exploration. Taking readers to biblical sites not... At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Wa... |
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78,02 zł |
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A New Religious America: How a Christian Country Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation
ISBN: 9780060621599 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today
Why Understanding America's Religious Landscape Is the Most Important Challenge Facing Us Today
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86,69 zł |
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The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today
ISBN: 9780060630560 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Dynamic Account of Religion's Central Role in American History A Dynamic Account of Religion's Central Role in American History |
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86,69 zł |
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Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography
ISBN: 9780060816131 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Revelations about One of the Greatest Romances in History Peter Abelard was arguably the greatest poet, philosopher, and religious teacher in all of twelfth-century Europe. In an age when women were rarely educated, Heloise was his most gifted young student. Their private tutoring sessions inevitably turned to passion, and their moments apart were spent writing love letters. Astoundingly, a few years ago a young scholar identified 113 new love letters between the pair which, combined with the latest scholarship, present us with the richest telling yet of the couple's clandestine... New Revelations about One of the Greatest Romances in History Peter Abelard was arguably the greatest poet, philosopher, and religious teache... |
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65,01 zł |
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Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
ISBN: 9780060838669 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Both immediate and timeless, Abraham tells the powerful story of one man's search for the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, andIslam. Traveling through war zones, braving violence at religious sites, andseeking out faith leaders, Bruce Feiler uncovers the defining yet divisive role that Abraham plays for half the world's believers. Provocative anduplifting, Abraham offers a thoughtful and inspiring vision of unity that redefines what we think about our neighbors, our future, and ourselves. This P.S. edition features an extra 16...Both immediate and timeless, Abraham tells the powerful story of one man's search for the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity... |
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78,02 zł |
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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't
ISBN: 9780060859527 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States is one of the most religious places on earth, but it is also a nation of shocking religious illiteracy.
Despite this lack of basic knowledge, politicians and pundits continue to root public... The United States is one of the most religious places on earth, but it is also a nation of shocking religious illiteracy.
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82,35 zł |
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God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism
ISBN: 9780142196335 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lively... points out that the conflict between the worship of many gods and the worship of one true god never disappeared." --Publishers Weekly
"Jonathan Kirsch has written another blockbuster about the Bible and its world." --David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief of the Anchor Bible Project "Kirsch tackles the central issue bedeviling the world today - religious intolerance... A timely book, well-written and researched." --Leonard Shlain, author of The Alphabet and the Goddess and Sex, Time and Power "An intriguing read." --The Jerusalem... "Lively... points out that the conflict between the worship of many gods and the worship of one true god never disappeared." --Publishers Weekly
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104,08 zł |
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The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims
ISBN: 9780143034810 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this immensely readable history that couldn't be more timely, award-winning historian Richard Fletcher chronicles the relationship between Islam and Christianity from the time of Muhammad to the Reformation. With lucidity and sound scholarship, Fletcher demonstrates that though there were fruitful trading and cultural interactions between Muslims and Christians during the period when the Arabs controlled most of the Mediterranean world, each group viewed the other's religion from the beginning as fundamentally different and suspect. Eschewing moral judgments and easy generalizations,...
In this immensely readable history that couldn't be more timely, award-winning historian Richard Fletcher chronicles the relationship between Islam an...
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104,08 zł |
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Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures
ISBN: 9780143036777 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jaroslav Pelikan, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished historians of our day, now provides a clear and engaging account of the Bible's journey from oral narrative to Hebrew and Greek text to today's countless editions. Pelikan explores the evolution of the Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic versions and the development of the printing press and its effect on the Reformation, the translation into modern languages, and varying schools of critical scholarship. Whose Bible Is It? is a triumph of scholarship that is also a pleasure to read.
Jaroslav Pelikan, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished historians of our day, now provides a clear and engaging account of the Bible's jou...
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104,08 zł |
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Religion and the People of Western Europe 1789-1989
ISBN: 9780192892836 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the end of the eighteenth century, throughout western Europe, the official clergy, champions of privilege and tradition, were challenged by religious dissenters and minorities. This book clearly maps out these polarizations and analyses the impact on religion of socialism, capitalism and the growth of cities. It examines the contrasts between the religion of the middle and working classes and between men and women. It discusses the appeal of movements like Methodism, Secularism, and Ultramontane Catholicism, and considers the crisis faced by the churches in many countries in the 1960s. A...
From the end of the eighteenth century, throughout western Europe, the official clergy, champions of privilege and tradition, were challenged by relig...
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212,64 zł |
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The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes Toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity
ISBN: 9780195036077 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.
This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity.
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197,89 zł |
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Power & Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy
ISBN: 9780195063912 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Catharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in matter by the devil. Their only goal was to escape the body through purification. Cathars denied any value to material life, including the human body, baptism, and the Eucharist, even marriage and childbirth. What could explain the long popularity of such a bleak faith in the towns of southern France and Italy? Power and Purity explores the place of cathar heresy in the life of the medieval Italian town of Orvieto. Based on extensive...
Catharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in mat...
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438,73 zł |
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Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism
ISBN: 9780195068214 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A synthesis of literary critical and historical methods, Porterfield's book combines insightful analysis of Puritan theological writings with detailed examinations of historical records showing the changing patterns of church membership and domestic life. She finds that by conflating marriage as a trope of grace with marriage as a social construct, Puritan ministers invested relationships between husbands and wives with religious meaning. Images of female piety represented the humility that Puritans believed led all Christians to self-control and, ultimately, to love. But while images of...
A synthesis of literary critical and historical methods, Porterfield's book combines insightful analysis of Puritan theological writings with detailed...
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315,88 zł |
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Religion & Power: Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greek East
ISBN: 9780195082630 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focusses on the eastern "Greek" provinces in the first and second centuries A.D.--the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose is to show how the local elite classes appropriated and manipulated mythic and religious images and practices to establish and consolidate their social, political, and economic power. Edwards considers both archaeological and literary evidence. He...
This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focusses on the eastern ...
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559,13 zł |
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Mysticism: Holiness East and West
ISBN: 9780195088199 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mysticism is pervasive throughout the religions of the world, yet varies widely in its particulars. This comprehensive work surveys the mystical dimension of the world's major religions, beginning with a working description of mysticism as "direct experience of ultimate reality," and examining how this understanding of mysticism holds up when set in interaction with Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions. The authors also examine the religious practices of North American, Latin American, African, and Australian native peoples, illuminating the history,...
Mysticism is pervasive throughout the religions of the world, yet varies widely in its particulars. This comprehensive work surveys the mystical dimen...
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595,14 zł |
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Religion in American History: A Reader
ISBN: 9780195097764 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the end of the twentieth century, religion seems to be ubiquitous in America. Its existence and influence are especially apparent in our politics, but its presence is most deeply felt in our personal lives and experience. Was it always this way?
Offering a rich selection of classic and recent scholarship, Religion in American History: A Reader presents an extraordinary portrait of religion's fate across four centuries of the American experience. Its essays cover major issues in American history and religion, detailing religion's purpose in American life and examining many... At the end of the twentieth century, religion seems to be ubiquitous in America. Its existence and influence are especially apparent in our politics, ...
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261,83 zł |
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Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture
ISBN: 9780195098389 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion in America is up for sale. The products range from a plethora of merchandise in questionable taste--such as Bible-based diet books (More of Jesus. Less of Me), Rapture T-shirts (one features a basketball game with half its players disappearing in the Rapture--the caption is -Fast Break-), and bumper stickers and Frisbees with inspirational messages--to the unabashed consumerism of Jim Bakker's Heritage USA, a grandiose Christian theme park with giant water slide, shopping mall, and office complex. We tend to think of these phenomena--which also include a long line of...
Religion in America is up for sale. The products range from a plethora of merchandise in questionable taste--such as Bible-based diet books (More ...
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104,53 zł |
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Religion in Nineteenth Century America
ISBN: 9780195110210 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written from the perspective of the various denominations that thrived in the 19th century, this comprehensive survey of the middle period in America's religious past actually starts a little earlier, in the 1780s. In the aftermath of the American Revolution, the citizens of the newly-minted republic had to cope with more than the havoc wreaked on churches and denominations by the war. They also tasted for the first time the effects of two novel ideas incorporated in the Constitution and the First Amendment: the separation of church and state and the freedom to practice any religion.
Grant... Written from the perspective of the various denominations that thrived in the 19th century, this comprehensive survey of the middle period in America'...
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121,73 zł |
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Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora
ISBN: 9780195111453 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and recorded numerous worship services in black Baptist churches throughout rural Texas. His historical comparisons and linguistic analyses of this material uncover striking parallels between "Afro-Baptist" services and the religious rituals of Western and Central Africa, as well as other African-derived rituals in the United States Sea Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Pitts demonstrates that African and African-American worship share an underlying...
This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and rec...
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200,35 zł |
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Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780195113396 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asian religions have a long and intriguing history in America. For over two centuries, Asian immigrants have been coming to America and bringing their religions with them. Some Americans have reacted with alarm to the arrival of heathen religions on American shores, while others have taken refuge in lamas from Tibet, yogis from India, and Zen masters from Japan.
Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History is the first text to show the breadth and depth of the American encounter with Asian religions. Ranging from 1784 to the present, it features over one hundred excerpts... Asian religions have a long and intriguing history in America. For over two centuries, Asian immigrants have been coming to America and bringing their...
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655,85 zł |
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