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Author | : Robin Lane Fox |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The author recreates the world from the second to the fourth century A.D., when the gods of Olympus lost their dominion, and Christianity, with the conversion of Constantine, triumphed in the Mediterranean world.
Author | : James J. O'Donnell |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062370715 |
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“Trenchantly interprets how an oddball religious cult became the official faith of Rome. . . . It makes for a thoughtful tour of Rome.” —New York Times Book Review Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint: that of the people who witnessed their ways of life destroyed by what seemed then a powerful religious cult. These “pagans” were actually pious Greeks, Romans, Syrians, and Gauls who observed the traditions of their ancestors. Religious scholar James J. O’Donnell takes us on a lively tour of the Ancient Roman world through the fourth century CE, when Romans of every nationality, social class, and religious preference found their world suddenly constrained by rulers who preferred a strange new god. Some joined this new cult, while others denied its power, erroneously believing it was little more than a passing fad. In Pagans, O’Donnell brings to life Roman religion and life, offers fresh portraits of iconic historical figures, including Constantine, Julian, and Augustine, and explores important themes—Rome versus the east, civilization versus barbarism, plurality versus unity, rich versus poor, and tradition versus innovation—in this startling account. “Mr. O’Donnell tells the familiar story of Christianity’s heroic age of expansion, from Constantine to Theodosius, with verve and wit.” —Wall Street Journal “Multilayered, erudite and dense.” —Cleveland Plain-Dealer “An engaging view of antiquity few of us have seen. —Booklist “O'Donnell offers an iconoclastic history of religion that tells an exciting new story that is deeply relevant to the way we think about religion in our own time.” —Washington Book Review
Author | : River Higginbotham |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-05-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0738717037 |
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A comprehensive guide to a growing religious movement If you want to study Paganism in more detail, this book is the place to start. Based on a course in Paganism that the authors have taught for more than a decade, it is full of exercises, meditations, and discussion questions for group or individual study. This book presents the basic fundamentals of Paganism. It explores what Pagans are like; how the Pagan sacred year is arranged; what Pagans do in ritual; what magick is; and what Pagans believe about God, worship, human nature, and ethics. For those who are exploring their own spirituality, or who want a good book to give to non-Pagan family and friends A hands-on learning tool with magickal workings, meditations, discussion questions, and journal exercises Offers in-depth discussion of ethics and magick
Author | : Holli S Emore |
Publisher | : Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781781799581 |
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Pagan traditions are the fastest-growing religious group in America, or so it has often been said since British witchcraft arrived in the late 1950s. Numbers are tricky to come by, but we know that contemporary Pagans report themselves as living in every American state, and in countries around the world. Historian Ronald Hutton is fond of pointing out that witchcraft is the one new religion that England has produced and shared globally.This volume reviews the shifting landscape of current Pagan spirituality, the unique culture and needs which must be understood in order to engage with contemporary Pagans, and the implications for future leadership, including organizational models, training and educational needs. The author has interviewed Pagan leaders about their own experiences and looks at data from the Pagan Engagement and Spiritual Support survey of 2016 to answer questions such as What does "ministry" mean for Pagans? Who do Pagans turn to for spiritual support? Who ought to be providing that support? Do Pagans want leaders who are trained for ministry? What kind of training do they need, and how do they get it?If you are a Pagan who wishes to support others in these ways, you will find here a framework for your own work, including stories and examples. If you are an interfaith minister, a chaplain, or a spiritual leader who finds that Pagans are intersecting with your work, you will become acquainted with the culture of this old-but-new spirituality. If you are an educator, may you find Constellated Ministry useful in teaching seminarians and students of religious studies.
Author | : Steven T. Newcomb |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781555916428 |
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"An analysis of how religious bias shaped U.S. federal Indian law."--
Author | : Pierre Chuvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download A Chronicle of the Last Pagans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Chronicle of the Last Pagans is a history of the triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire as told from the perspective of the defeated: the adherents of the mysteries, cults, and philosophies that dominated Greco-Roman culture. With a sovereign command of the diverse evidence, Pierre Chuvin portrays the complex spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of professing pagans after Christianity became the state religion. While recreating the unfolding drama of their fate--their gradual loss of power, exclusion from political, military, and civic positions, their assimilation, and finally their persecution--he records a remarkable persistence of pagan religiosity and illustrates the fruitful interaction between Christianity and paganism. The author points to the implications of this late paganism for subsequent developments in the Byzantine Empire and the West. Chuvin's compelling account of an often forgotten world of pagan culture rescues an important aspect of our spiritual heritage and provides new understanding of Late Antiquity.
Author | : Steven D. Smith |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467451487 |
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Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.
Author | : Arnaldo Momigliano |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1987-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780819562180 |
Download On Pagans, Jews, and Christians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An analysis of the relationships between pagan Greece, imperial Rome, Judaism, and Christianity.
Author | : Herman Slater |
Publisher | : Weiser Books |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780877283485 |
Download A Book of Pagan Rituals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of rituals, practices, and exercises has been drawn from ancient sources, some have been preserved and some rituals have been updated by scholars from various pagan groups. This deluxe one-volume edition is specially designed to be read by candlelight.
Author | : Catherine Jinks |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780763620196 |
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In twelth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.