Religious History Books

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41. 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
42. 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
43. 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
44. Rethinking Religion in India

    The Colonial Construction of Hinduism

    Edited by Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens, Rajaram Hegde

    Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

    This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical paradigm, Hindu traditions are conceptualized as...

    Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge
45. Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia

    Edited by Anne Murphy

    Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

    Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and...

    Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
46. Sufism and Society

    Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200–1800

    Edited by John Curry, Erik Ohlander

    Series: Routledge Sufi Series

    In recent years, many historians of Islamic mysticism have been grappling in sophisticated ways with the difficulties of essentialism. Reconceptualising the study of Islamic mysticism during an under-researched period of its history, this book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in...

    Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
47. A History of Early Al-Andalus

    The Akhbar Majmu'a

    By David James

    Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

    The Akhbar majmu‘a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of ‘Abd al-Rahman III (912-961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus . No Arabic text dealing with the early...

    Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
48. The Holocaust and Representations of Jews

    History and Identity in the Museum

    By K. Hannah Holtschneider

    Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

    The Holocaust and Representations of Jews examines how prominent national exhibitions in Europe represent the Jewish minority and its cultural and religious self-understandings, historically and today, in particular in the context of the Holocaust. Insights from the New Museology are brought to...

    Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge
49. Godly Zeal and Furious Rage (RLE Witchcraft)

    The Witch in Early Modern Europe

    By Geoffrey Quaife

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft

    Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular...

    Published June 23rd 2011 by Routledge
50. Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft)

    By R. Davies

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft

    Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in...

    Published June 23rd 2011 by Routledge