Religious History Books

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31. Historical Disasters in Context

    Science, Religion, and Politics

    Edited by Andrea JANKU, Gerrit Schenk, Franz Mauelshagen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

    Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
32. Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook

    Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

    Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
33. New Perspectives on the Qur'an

    The Qur'an in its Historical Context 2

    Edited by Gabriel Reynolds

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Qur'an

    This book continues the work of The Qur’an in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur’an and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur’an’s own conversation with the religions and literatures...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
34. The Muslim Conquest of Iberia

    Medieval Arabic Narratives

    By Nicola Clarke

    Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

    Medieval Islamic society set great store by the transmission of history: to edify, argue legal points, explain present conditions, offer political and religious legitimacy, and entertain. Modern scholars, too, have had much to say about the usefulness of early Islamic history-writing, although this...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
35. Early Orientalism

    Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power

    By Ivan Kalmar

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
36. Gender and Holiness

    Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe

    Edited by Sam Riches, Sarah Salih

    Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture

    This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
37. Religion of the People

    Methodism and Popular Religion 1750-1900

    By David Hempton

    Taking account of broader patterns of growth, the focus of this book is Methodism in the British Isles. Hempton discusses why Methodism, the most important religious movement in the English-speaking world in the 18th and 19th centuries, grew when and where it did and what was the nature of the...

    Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
38. The World's Religions

    Edited by Peter Clarke, Friedhelm Hardy, Leslie Houlden, Stewart Sutherland

    Series: Routledge Companion Encyclopedias

    * Gives an account of the history, the theological basis, the practice and the current state of the study of religion and religions throughout the world* Combines a clear and non-technical style of presentation with a structure and range of contributions which reflect the richness and complexity of...

    Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
39. Christians in Al-Andalus 711-1000

    By Ann Rosemary Christys

    Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

    Our current image of the Christian population of al-Andalus after AD711 reflects the way history has been written. The Christians almost disappeared from the historical record as the historians of the conquering Muslims concentrated on the glories of the Ummayads.This book reconsiders, through...

    Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
40. Pluralism in the Middle Ages

    Hybrid Identities, Conversion, and Mixed Marriages in Medieval Iberia

    By Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati

    Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

    The challenges of cultural and religious diversity that face European and American societies today are not a new phenomenon. People in the Middle Ages lived in pluralistic societies, and they found highly interesting ways of dealing with religious and cultural diversity. While religious and...

    Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge