Världen

Kärnborg, Ulrika

In this towering work, André Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi produced over the past forty years as well on as hi...

Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorn...

The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity's most powerful leaders for nearly two millennia, and their influence has extended far beyond the purely...

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-rangin...

Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geo...

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, cultural...

Almost without exception, the "histories of the Church" available in print are, in fact, histories of Western Christianity, with only brief and sup...

Band 8, Religionsfrihetens och ekumenikens tid. 1900-talet innebar en total omvandling av Svenska kyrkan – från en strikt reglerad bundenhet til...

The High Middle Ages were remarkable for their coherent sense of 'Christendom': of people who belonged to a homogeneous Christian society marked by...

The Christian faith has the allegiance of one third of the human race. It has succeeded in influencing civilization to such a degree that we now ta...

Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil o...

The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it n...

Berggren, Lars/Greiff, Mats

Vad är det egentligen som händer när reglerna för människors samvaro förändras? Hur påverkas samhället när gamla traditioner och maktförhållanden r...

The failure of political institutions, including national governments and the United Nations, to mitigate climate change reflects the modern consti...

Protestantism is one of the world's largest and most dynamic religious movements, currently experiencing major growth and expansion in many parts o...

Rönnegård, Per/Rubenson, S

Pietism is increasingly recognized as the most important movement in Protestant Christianity since the Reformation of the sixteenth century. Simply...

What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of Mu...

This monumental work recounts a large part of modern Chinese Christian history by telling the story of one of its key protagonists--Bishop K. H. Ti...