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Alun Williams

Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain

This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the evolution of history writing in León-Castile during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. …

Oliver Smith

On This Holy Island

Retracing sacred travel made across time, from murmurs of ritual journeys in the depths of the Ice Age to new pilgrimages of the twenty-first century, On This Holy Island is an epic adventure across Sacre…

Government Issue

Complete History Volume 1

Günther Dichatschek

Christsein in der Moderne 9

Die Weitergabe des christlichen Glaubens an die nachwachsende Generation bzw. an die keiner Religionsgemeinschaft Angehörigen ist eine grundlegende Aufgabe in Form des Fachbereichs Religionspädagogik und …

Fatimid Cosmopolitanism

This book examines the diverse achievements of the Fatimid dynasty across religion, statecraft and art.

Deborah Fripp, Violet Neff-Helms

Moment of Witness

A complete script script for a thoughtful and powerful Holocaust remembrance commemoration, designed specifically for secular and interfaith groups.

Alexander Kimel, Martin Kimel

The Pessimist's Son

A personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling memoir of Alexander Kimel, taking him from a shtetl to a N…

Alexander Kimel, Martin Kimel

The Pessimist's Son

A personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling memoir of Alexander Kimel, taking him from a shtetl to a N…

Julie Masis,

How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe (and Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine)

Journalist Julie Masis interviewed her grandfather, Shlomo Masis, who lived to be 102, about how he survived the Holocaust in Obodovka, Ukraine, which was then under Romanian control.

Julie Masis,

How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe (and Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine)

Journalist Julie Masis interviewed her grandfather, Shlomo Masis, who lived to be 102, about how he survived the Holocaust in Obodovka, Ukraine, which was then under Romanian control.

Markus Ohler,

History of Early Christianity

"Describes the history of Early Christianity from Jesus of Nazareth to the time of the Second Judean Revolt, presenting the developments of early Christianity in antiquity, drawing on both ancient Ju…

Marty Wheeler Burnett

Shapers of the Hymnal 1982

Explore the groundbreaking Hymnal 1982 through the eyes of its creators as the Episcopal Church celebrates the fortieth anniversary of its publication.

Hartley Lachter

Kabbalah and Catastrophe

"While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs. Hartley Lachter analyzes in…

Fatimid Cosmopolitanism

This book examines the diverse achievements of the Fatimid dynasty across religion, statecraft and art.

Thomas S Bremer

Sacred Wonderland

Sacred Wonderland explores the historical role of religion in making Yellowstone National Park a meaningful American icon.

Kathryn Gin Lum

Heathen

American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and under…

Fergus Butler-Gallie

Twelve Churches

Karen Armstrong meets Pico Iyer in this sweeping history of Christianity that visits a dozen places of worship on every inhabited continent to tell their often wild stories and examine their sometimes dif…

Assaf Shelleg

The State of Afterness

The State of Afterness studies the histories of contemporary music written in and about Israel since the 1980s. With afterness defined as the state of being unconditioned by territorialism, author Assaf S…

Obbie Tyler Todd

The Beechers

The Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called "the father of more brains than any other man in America." Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most we…