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Religious History
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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryConnexions Library: Religion Focus Website 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion. Critique of Nonviolent Politics: From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement  Ryan, Howard Book 1984 Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social moveme... Easily Led: A History of Propaganda Thomson, Oliver Book 1999 From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Mann, Charles. C. Book 2005 A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus. God: A Human History - a rescue attempt by Reza Aslan: Book review Namazie, Maryam Article 2017 Gods and religions have caused so much distress that even those who have spent a lifetime apologising for and ignoring the doctrinal foundations of their abuses must make a rescue attempt. Karl Marx and the Iroquois: An essay on Marx's Ethnological Notebooks Rosemont, Franklin Article Franklin Rosemont delves into Marx's Ethnological Notebooks and examines their significance and relevance towards today's communist movement. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 27: Engels 1890 - 1895 Engels, Friedrich Book 1895 Includes The Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom, and A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891, and On the History of Early Christianity, and The Peasant Question in France and Germany A Marxist History of the World part 20: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Faulkner, Neil Article 2010 Neil Faulkner examines how the three great monotheistic religions produced by the contradictions of the ancient world owed their extraordinary power to their origins in the myths and rituals of the op... A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and Jihad Faulkner, Neil Article 2011 The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the... A Marxist History of the World part 36: The Reformation Faulkner, Neil Article 2011 The Reformation after 1521 tore apart church and state. Neil Faulkner looks at how the new social forces formed inside late medieval Europe helped undermine the thousand year domination of the Roman C... A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and Religion Faulkner, Neil Article 2010 This week Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of War and Religion in the Early Neolithic world. The Meek and the Militant: Religion and Power Across the World Siegel, Paul N. Book This wide-ranging comparative study of religion by an eminent American scholar opens with the Marxist critique of religion - its explanation of religion's origin and persistance, and how it has acted ... On Religious Cruelty Holbach, Baron d' Article 1769 In this essay I am going to examine the different kinds of religious cruelty. Under this name I include those religious opinions that proceed from this cruelty or give birth to it, those acts of barba... A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium Harman, Chris Book 1999 Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith Buhle, Paul; Jones, Sabrina; Dumm, Gary; Thorkelson, Nick Book 2013 Radical Jesus is arguably the first modern effort to convey through comic art the meaning of Jesus and his social message, not just in his own time, but also in the Radical Reformation, recent centuri... Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe' Malik, Kenan Article 2011 Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe. Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryEncyclopedia of Religion and Society Swatos Jr., William H. 1998 The sacred and profane continue to interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes ... From Cave Paintings to the Internet Norman, Jeremy 2013 Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media. Historiography of early Christianity Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Historians have used a variety of sources and methods in exploring and describing the history of early Christianity, commonly known as the Christianity of the roughly three centuries (1st, 2nd, 3rd, e... Hundreds of Scottish Orphanage Children Allegedly Buried in Mass Grave High infant mortality rate and allegations of abuse raise suspicions of Smyllum Park in Lanark, once run by Catholic nuns Bowcott, Owen 2017 The Scottish child abuse inquiry is to investigate claims that the bodies of at least 400 children from an orphanage once run by Catholic nuns are buried in an unmarked mass grave.The Smyllum Park orp... Islam and slavery Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Historically, the major juristic schools of Islam traditionally accepted the institution of slavery. The Islamic prophet Muhammad and many of his companions bought, sold, freed, and captured slaves. Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction Dalrymple, William 2013 Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is about to be destroyed. Noah's ark was round – so the ancient tablet tells us Moss, Stephen 2014 Irving Finkel, curator of the British Museum's 130,000 Mesopotamian clay tablets, has spent 20 years investigating one that challenges the story of Noah and the flood. Protestant Reformation Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia The Protestant Reformation, also called the Protestant Revolt or simply The Reformation, was the European Christian reform movement that established Protestantism as a constituent branch of contempora... Radical Reformation Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia The Radical Reformation was a 16th century response to what was believed to be both the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church and the expanding Magisterial Protestant movement led by Martin Luther a... Sex, Drugs and Rollickin' Roles: Christmas and Our Ever-Changing Relationship with Nature Ó Croidheáin, Caoimhghin 2017 The benefits of industrialisation have come at price as industry and technology the world over pushes nature further and further into ecological crises. Christmas has become the vehicle for the worst ... Waldensians Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Waldensians, Waldenses or Vaudois are names for a Christian movement of the later Middle Ages, descendants of which still exist in various regions. Over time, the denomination joined the Genevan or Re... |
