The contributions can be shared under three topics: gender and sexual emancipation, (trans)national identities in the context of migration, and European unification and religious identifications in a changing religious landscape. Contains contributions about: Africans renewing f…
Despite the forces of secularization in Europe, old pilgrimage routes are attracting huge numbers of people and given new meanings in the process. In pilgrimage, religious or spiritual meanings are interwoven with social, cultural and politico-strategic concerns. This book explo…
Despite the forces of secularization in Europe, old pilgrimage routes are attracting huge numbers of people and given new meanings in the process. In pilgrimage, religious or spiritual meanings are interwoven with social, cultural and politico-strategic concerns. This book explo…
Old pilgrimage routes are attracting huge numbers of people. Religious or spiritual meanings are interwoven with socio-cultural and politico-strategic concerns and this book explores three such concerns of hot debate in Europe: religious identity construction in a changing Europ…
"Outlines the huge variety of belief and practices in early Christianities, showing how the many "lost" early Christianities influenced the development of Christian identity"--.
"Outlines the huge variety of belief and practices in early Christianities, showing how the many "lost" early Christianities influenced the development of Christian identity"
M. David Litwa tells the stories of the early Christians whose religious identity was either challenged or outright denied. In the second century many different groups and sects claimed to be the only Orthodox or authentic version of Christianity, and Litwa shows how those group…
"Outlines the huge variety of belief and practices in early Christianities, showing how the many "lost" early Christianities influenced the development of Christian identity"--
This study examines the statements about strangers, foreign peoples, and gods in Deuteronomy. It shows that representations of the stranger were closely tied to differently nuanced constructions of the authors' own Israelite identities during different eras. The approach combine…
