"In her latest book, religion expert Diana Butler Bass offers a fresh interpretation of this transformation and identifies a new spiritual awakening taking place inside and outside the church. Based on new research and a careful reading of history, CHRISTIANITY AFTER RELIGION ar…
"In her latest book, religion expert Diana Butler Bass offers a fresh interpretation of this transformation and identifies a new spiritual awakening taking place inside and outside the church. Based on new research and a careful reading of history, CHRISTIANITY AFTER RELIGION ar…
Markus Dressler tells the story of how a number of marginalized socioreligious communities, traditionally and derogatorily referred to as Kizilbas ('Redhead'), captured the attention of the late Ottoman and early Republican Turkish nationalists and were gradually integrated into…
"Markus Dressler tells the story of how a number of marginalized socioreligious communities, traditionally and derogatorily referred to as Kizilbas ("Redhead"), captured the attention of the late Ottoman and early Republican Turkish nationalists and were gradually integrated int…
"Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The product of collaborative research by an American anthropologist and a Vietnamese folklorist, the work exp…
Revitalization of religious and cultural traditions is taking place in nearly all contemporary Asian societies, as is shown in "Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia." Revitalization is not unique to Asia, it is one of…
A study of how women from different backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation. The focus is on Munster, a city in the north of Germany, which was exposed to powerful Protestant influences which culminated in the notorious Anabaptist kingdom of 1534.
Examines how women from different social backgrounds encountered the counter-reformation in the northern German city of Münster, which was exposed to powerful Protestant influences but returned to Catholicism after the defeat of radical reformers.
List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Contributors -- Map of the Roman Empire in the fourth century -- Introduction: The cloak of power : dressing and undressing the King / Johannes Wienand -- Part one. Administering the empire -- Domesticating the Senatorial élite : unive…
"This volume reappraises the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The focus of the book will lie on the period from Diocletian to Theodosius I (284-395) and thus on a major developmental phase in the history of …