Religion in history

Conflict, conversion and coexistence
Herausgeber: Wolffe, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an integrated collection of essays by leading scholars that looks at issues of conflict, conversion and coexistence in the religious context since the third century. The range of topics explored include paganism and Christianity in the later Roman world, the Crusades, the impact of the Reformation in Britain and Ireland, subsequent Protestant-Catholic conflict, the Hindu Renaissance in nineteenth-century India, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Britain in the 1960s, women and the ministry, and Christianity, Judaism and the Holocaust. The book concludes by offering an historical perspective on religion, conflict and coexistence in the world today. Published in association with The Open University, this is a student-friendly and accessible volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780719071072
• ISBN-10: 0719071070
• Artikelnr.: 21474031

Autorenporträt

John Wolffe is Professor of Religious Studies at The Open University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by John Wolffe 1. Pagan and Christian in the third to fifth centuries
Janet Huskinson 2. Islam, Christianity and the crusades: rival monotheisms and monotheistic rivals
Jo Pearson 3. Post
Reformation Britain and Ireland: The churches of the British Isles1560
1691
Anne Laurence 4. Contentious Christians: Protestant
Catholic conflict since the Reformation
John Wolffe 5. The Hindu renaissance and notions of universal religion
Gwilym Beckerlegge 6. How the times they were a
changing: exploring the context of religious transformation in 1960s Britain
Gerald Parsons 7. Women, priesthood, and the ordained ministry in the Christian tradition
Susan Mumm 8. Christians, Jews and the Holocaust
K. Hannah Holtschneider 9. Religion, Conflict and Coexistence in Palestine/Israel
David Herbert 10. Religion and contemporary conflict in historical perspective
John Wolffe and David Herbert