Religion in history
Subtitle: conflict, conversion and coexistence
By: edited by John Wolffe.
Contributors: Wolffe, John.; Open University.
Publisher: Open University; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Religion -- History.; History -- Religious aspects.
Description: A collection of essays by leading scholars that looks at issues of conflict, conversion and coexistence on the religious context since the third century. The range of topics explored include paganism and Christianity in the later Roman world, the Crusades, and the impact of the Reformation on Britain and Ireland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John Wolffe; title: Pagan and Christian in the third to fifth centuries / Janet Huskinson; title: Islam, Christianity and the crusades : rival monotheisms and monotheistic rivals / Jo Pearson; title: Post-Reformation Britain and Ireland : the churches of the British Isles, 1560-1691 /  Anne Laurence; title: Contentious Christians : Protestant-Catholic conflict since the Reformation / John Wolffe; title: The Hindu Renaissance and notions of universal religion / Gwilym Beckerlegge; title: How the times they were a-changing : exploring the context of religious transformation in Britain in the 1960s / Gerald Parsons; title: Women, priesthood, and the ordained ministry in the Christian tradition / Susan Mumm; title: Christians, Jews and the Holocaust / K. Hannah Holtschneider; title: Religion, conflict and coexistence in Palestine/Israel /  David Herbert; title: Religion and contemporary conflict in historical perspective / David Herbert and John Wolffe.