Home » Archive by category Religion related (Page 27)

Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature

English | 2017 | ISBN: 019879195X | 368 Pages | PDF | 1,8 MB Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian writers, readers, and listeners from the first to third centuries. Anthropological and sociological work over...
Continue

Religion in Secular Society Fifty Years On

English | 2016 | ISBN: 0198788371 | 368 Pages | PDF | 1,2 MB Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson’s Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work. It is one of the clearest articulations of the secularization thesis: the claim that modernizations brings with it...
Continue

Theory and Practice in Essene Law

English | 2016 | ISBN: 0190631015 | 256 Pages | PDF | 2,8 MB This book offers a novel approach for the study of law in the Judean Desert Scrolls, using the prism of legal theory. Following a couple of decades of scholarly consensus withdrawing from the “Essene...
Continue

Keeping the Vow The Untold Story of Married Catholic Priests

2015 | ISBN-10: 0199860041 | 336 Pages | PDF | 3 MB At one of the largest Catholic churches in America, hundreds of people make their way into the spacious, well-appointed sanctuary for an evening Mass. The congregation is several times larger than most Protestant megachurches. In addition...
Continue

Ebooksz