Religion and the Politics of Tolerance: How Christianity Builds Democracy
Bruce Aune “Religion and the Politics of Tolerance: How Christianity Builds Democracy"
Marie A. Eisenstein | 2008 | ISBN: 1932792848 | 195 pages | PDF | 1.1 Mb
Challenging a widespread belief that religious people are politically intolerant, Marie Ann Eisenstein offers compelling evidence to the contrary. In this surprising and…
The Modern Scholar Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Monoth
Judaism, Christianity, and IslamProfessor Frank E. Peters(New York University)Course SyllabusLecture 1 ?In the Beginning ??Lecture 2 The Israelite ExperienceLecture 3 From Israelite to JewLecture 4 Jesus of Nazareth: Teacher, Messiah, RedeemerLecture 5 The Spread of ChristianityLecture 6 Muhammad, Prophet of MeccaLecture 7 Muhammad, Lord of MedinaLecture 8 The?People of the…
TTC Great World Religions Christianity www.rockandkeys.com
TTC - Great World Religions - Christianitywww.rockandkeys.com
TTC Luke Johnson Early Christianity Experience of the Divine
Early Christianity: The Experience of the Divine, Professor Luke Timothy After 2000 years, Christianity is the world's largest religion and continues to prosper and grow. What accounts for its continued popularity? Simply put, Christianity is powerful and persuasive as a religion. It offers a convincing personal experience of ultimate, or…
A History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Ballantine Books | ISBN 0345384563 | 1994 edition | PDF | 219 pages | 5.2 MB
“Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascinating quests of all time--the search for God.…
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity (ESCJ
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity (ESCJ)
Wilfrid Laurier University Press | ISBN 0889204497 | 2006-04-01 | PDF | 408 pages | 1.38 MB
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism,…
Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in
Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521600502 | 2005 edition | PDF | 296 pages | 3.1 MB
"One thousand years apart, Christianity's rapid rise in Europe and in Mexico coincided with plague and social…
Slavery in Early Christianity
Slavery in Early Christianity
Fortress Press | ISBN 0800637895 | 2002 | PDF | 210 p. | 800 KB
Glancy here situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting, arguing that modern scholars have consistently underestimated the pervasive impact of slavery on the institutional structures, ideologies, and practices of the early…
The Marketplace of Christianity
The Marketplace of Christianity
The MIT Press| ISBN 026205082X | 2006-11-01 | PDF | 365 pages | 2.05 MB
This startlingly original (and sure to be controversial) account of the evolution of Christianity shows that the economics of religion has little to do with counting the money in the collection basket and…
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits)
Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits)
The Mit Press | ISBN 0262740257 | 2003 | PDF | 1.25 MB | 197 pages
When, today, one directly asks an intellectual: “OK, let’s cut the crap and get down to basics: do you believe in some…