Religion : History

This sourcebook presents more than fifty new translations of key Islamic texts. Edited and translated by three leading specialists it illustrates the growth of Islamic thought from its seventh-century origins to the end of the medieval period. more...

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Carlo and Federico Borromeo achieved fame by turning Milan into the foremost laboratory of the Italian Counter-Reformation. This monograph interprets their programme of penitential discipline as a quest to reshape Lombard society by reaching into the souls of its inhabitants. more...

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This study provides an edition, English translation, and analysis of the thirteenth-century Coptic Martyrdom of John of Phanijoit. Sociological and philological approaches to the text explain its significance to the study of Christian-Muslim relations in Egypt at the time of the Crusades. more...

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Americans as a religious people experience both tension and indecision as they wrestle with a variety of critical issues every day. American society continually struggles with its religious past. The primary and secondary materials included in this volume track religious America's efforts to articulate its identity and destiny and implement its religious creeds and ideals in an ever-changing society. more...

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This book is about Spanish secret Judaism and the Inquisition, which strove to uproot the 'Judaizing heresy' among baptised Jews and their descendants. Even in the eighteenth century, Cryptojudaism was still prevalent, but the Inquisition finally triumphed. This book describes the private lives of the crypto-Jews, as revealed in their confessions, together with their fate in prison and at the auto-da-fé at which they abjured their Judaism and were reconciled to the Church or, if not, burnt at the stake. more...

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