The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity, Paperback - David Brakke

Who were the Gnostics? And how did the Gnostic movement influence the development of Christianity in antiquity? Is it true that the Church rejected...

Reducere. Not a year goes by without the Pope or another Christian dignitary singing the praises of fecundity and the virtues of family, preferably numerous....

Myth, Ritual and the Oral - Jack Goody

Reducere. "Our main object will be to describe one of the most incomparably beautiful myths that has ever flowered from the mind of man, or from the unconsci...

Reducere. Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. How did ...

This Element covers social construction of the ideas of body and gender in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity, Martyrdom and asceticism as Chris...

Reducere. The liturgical year is a relatively modern invention. The term itself only came into use in the late sixteenth century. In antiquity, Christians di...

First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in ...

Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity - Roger D. Woodard

Reducere. The world of Jesus and the early Christians swarmed with prophets and exorcists, holy men and healers, who invoked angels and demons, gods and ghos...

Reducere. An internationally recognized scholar highlights the important role the North African church played in the development of Christian thought. This a...

Identity in landscape connectivity and diversity in Iron Age Transylvania - Sándor Berecki

Reducere. How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the Euro...

Reducere. Beginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament critic...

Informed by sociological theory and recent empirical analysis, the new edition of this classic textbook is an accessible account of the major socia...

Reducere. The religious and magical practices of the ancient Egyptians have had a profound and lasting effect on the world. Egypt has been described as the "...

An introductory student guide to working with diversity in social workPublisher: SAGE Publications LtdNumber of pages: 160Collection: Transforming ...

Addressing diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+), this collection explores how being older intersects with ethnicity, gen...

Reducere. In the United States, the number of children who come from homes where they speak languages other than English is rising. Despite the common misper...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A guide to the complexities of working with difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy.

Reducere. Hill-Fletcher shows that the Christian habit of seeing themselves as the ``chosen ones`` has often been translated into racial categories as well. ...

Gender is being marginalized with the increased attention to "multiple discrimination" and civil society landscape at the transnational level is in...

Reducere. Having long served as a standard introduction to the world of the early church, Everett Ferguson's Backgrounds of Early Christianity has been expan...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ezra ChitandoNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 144 x 215 x 27Cover type: Paper...

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient Ch...

Homer was the gateway to education, to the skills of reading and writing. These skills were necessary for the nascent Church. Knowledge of Homer's ...

Reducere. Oskar Skarsaune makes a fresh contribution to our understanding of the development of the early church in its practice (e.g., worship, baptism and ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Contributor(s): Author: Sara AhmedWhat does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of ...

In this book the contributors reflect on the issues they have encountered in their programs related to diversity.Illustrations: Illustrations, unsp...

This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture o...

Christologicalterminology in its Biblical and Early Church contextsPublisher: James Clarke & Co LtdNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimens...