The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief
A milestone work in Christian theology--available again! Is it possible to be both a historian and a Christian? Van Harvey's classic The Historian and the Believer posed that question when it was first published. In this printing, the author has provided a new introduction in which he reflects on how he would reframe his original argument in order ......
The author nationally recognized for the quality and depth of his teaching in religious studies has written the first full-scale introduction to the history and methods of the study of religion.
The Cultural Transformation of a "Peculiar People"
In the first book ever written on the subject, Carl Bowman examines how and why members of the Church of the Brethren--historically known as ''Dunkers'' after their method of baptism--were assimilated faster and earlier than their Amish, Mennonite, or even Hutterite cousins.''Brethren Society is unique, creative, and well written. There are ......
The Education of Phillips Brooks probes the formative years of one of the best-known figures of Victorian America's ''Gilded Age.'' Rigorously researched, bringing as yet untapped archival material into play, John F. Woolverton's book is an extremely readable and fascinating look at a gifted, persuasive clergyman and public figure. One of the most ......
Appalachian Mountain Religion is much more than a narrowly focused look at the religion of a region. Within this largest regional and widely diverse religious tradition can be found the strings that tie it to all of American religious history. The fierce drama between American Protestantism and Appalachian mountain religion has been played out for ......
The great flight that brought colonists in the 1600s to what would become New England was a resettlement that had not only a geographical and spiritual impact, but an important historical impact as well. The influences of the settlers' English origins, and the fact that various religious groups inhabited specific areas of New England, strongly ......
Winner of the Evans Biography Award and the John Whitmer Association Best Book Award''One of the best biographies yet written about any Latter Day Saint leader in either the Reorganized church or Utah Mormon church. . . . 'Must' reading for all students of Mormon history.'' -- Newell Bringhurst, Sunstone''An important appraisal of the man who ......
Baba Tuekles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition
This book is the first substantial study of Islamization in any part of Inner Asia from any perspective and the first to emphasize conversion narratives as important sources for understanding the dynamics of Islamization. Challenging the prevailing notions of the nature of Islam in Inner Asia, it explores how conversion to Islam was woven ......
