A Bibliography of Christian Worship

A Bibliography of Christian Worship
Author: Bard Thompson
Publisher: Atla Bibliography
Total Pages: 840
Release: 1989
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Deals extensively with major foci of Christian worship: Initiation, Eucharist, Ordination, Marriage, Reconciliation, Ministry to the Sick and Dying, Burial, the Daily Office, and the Calendar.

Playing with God

Playing with God
Author: William J Baker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0674020448

Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.

African Traditional Religion in South Africa

African Traditional Religion in South Africa
Author: David Chidester
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-08-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0313304742

In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful. This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.

Life of Jesus Research

Life of Jesus Research
Author: Craig A. Evans
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1996
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9789004102828

This volume offers annotated bibliographies for all the major areas of critical scholarship in the historical Jesus. It is an indispensable tool for research in this important field of the study.

History of the Telugu Christians

History of the Telugu Christians
Author: James Elisha Taneti
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0810875098

Christian communities in the state Andhra Pradesh of south India and the Telugu Christians in diaspora have passed their stories from one generation to the next by oral traditions as well as in scattered texts. James Elisha Taneti's History of the Telugu Christians: A Bibliography lists more than 700 published and unpublished textual sources related to the history of Telugu Christians from south India, including monographs, journal articles, letters, reports, minutes and the proceedings of missionary conferences, unpublished theses, dissertations, souvenirs, and manuscripts. Taneti's insightful historiographical analysis and comprehensive list of bibliographic sources offer seminarians, historians, and scholars the opportunity to study the religious history of India through the founding and evolution of this community.