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What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? This title takes a fresh look at this much-debated question, looking at the historical evidence in order to try and understand why pagan aristocrats decided to convert to Christianity.

Christian converts --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Christian sociology --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- Christians --- Converts --- Religious life --- History --- Christian converts - Rome --- Aristocracy (Social class) - Religious life - Rome --- Sociology, Christian - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Sociology, Christian

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"Apostle to the Inuit presents the journals and ethnographical notes of Reverend Edmund James Peck, an Anglican missionary who opened the first mission among the Inuit of Baffin Island in 1894. He stayed until 1905, and by that time, had firmly established Christianity in the North. He became known to the Inuit as 'Uqammaq, ' the one who talks well. His colleagues knew him as 'Apostle among the Eskimo.'" "Peck's diaries of the period focus on his missionary work and the adoption of Christianity by the Inuit and provide an impressive account of the daily life and work of the early missionaries in Baffin Island. His ethnographic data was collected at the request of famed anthropologist Franz Boas in 1897. Peck conducted extensive research on Inuit oral traditions and presents several detailed verbatim accounts of shamanic traditions and practises. This work continues to be of great value for a better understanding of Inuit culture and history but has never before been published." "Apostle to the Inuit demonstrates how a Christian missionary, who was bitterly opposed to shamanism, became a devoted researcher of this complex tradition. Editors Frederic Laugrand, Jarich Oosten, and Francois Trudel highlight the relationships between Europeans and Inuit and discuss central issues facing Native peoples and missionaries in the North. They also present a selection of drawings made by Inuit at the request of Peck, which illustrate Inuit life on Baffin Island at the turn of the twentieth century. The book offers important new data on the history of the missions among the Inuit as well as on the history of Inuit religion and the anthropological study of Inuit oral traditions."--Jacket.

Christian heresies --- Christian sects, Medieval. --- Dissenters, Religious --- Heresies, Christian --- History --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Dissenters [Religious ] --- Europe --- Heresies, Christian - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Dissenters, Religious - Europe - History. --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Inuit --- Missionaries --- Missions --- Peck, E. J. --- Anglican Church of Canada --- Nunavut --- Missionnaires --- Peck, E. J. - (Edmund James)

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What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of Christianity and even the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with these questions in a detailed sociocultural ethnographic study of the Vineyard, an American Evangelical movement that originated in Southern California. The Vineyard is known worldwide for its intense musical forms of worship and for advocating the belief that all Christians can perform biblical-style miracles. Examining the miracle as both a strength and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, this book situates the miracle as a fundamentally social means of producing change-surprise and the unexpected used to reimagine and reconfigure the will. Jon Bialecki shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices as well as music, reading, economic choices, and conservative and progressive political imaginaries.

Pentecostalism --- Spirituality --- Pentecostalism. --- america. --- american history. --- bible. --- biblical. --- charismatic evangelicalism. --- charismatic religious practices. --- christian history. --- christian living. --- christian music. --- christian. --- christianity. --- church history. --- conservative. --- economy. --- ethnographic. --- evangelicalism. --- miracles. --- miraculous. --- music. --- pentecostal. --- politics. --- progressive. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- sociocultural. --- southern california. --- the vineyard. --- vineyard. --- worship.

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La ville est le lieu de naissance du christianisme ; elle l'a vu ensuite s'épanouir au point de s'identifier à cette religion, dans l'espace qu'il avait conquis. N'a-t-on pas coutume de mesurer les villes au nombre de leurs clochers ? Pourtant cette identification n'a pas été immédiate. Les chrétiens ont d'abord dû se cacher dans la ville avant de pouvoir s'en emparer. À l'inverse, la sécularisation observée depuis le XVIIIe siècle a d'abord concerné les villes (à l'image de Paris), premières touchées par la « déchristianisation », la politique de laïcisation engagée en France à partir de la Révolution visant à faire disparaître précisément toute trace d'identification au christianisme. La cité devenait ainsi un terrain de conflit entre chrétiens et libres penseurs. Mais le phénomène n'est pas nouveau. Au Moyen Âge, dans les villes divisées entre chrétiens et musulmans, au temps de la Réforme, les luttes ont fait rage pour le contrôle de l'espace urbain. Il en reste des traces innombrables, à commencer par les églises et les temples, les croix, les noms de lieux qui sont autant de signes du lien entre les chrétiens et l'espace urbain. C'est cette relation complexe des chrétiens à la ville que se proposent d'analyser les études recueillies dans ce volume afin de comprendre comment se construit l'identité du chrétien dans la cité. Pour cela sont examinés l'investissement du territoire urbain par les chrétiens, puis les pratiques cultuelles propres à la ville, enfin la place particulière de la paroisse. Complété par une approche historiographique, ce livre apporte ainsi une contribution de poids au débat sur la place du religieux dans la cité.

History of Europe --- Christian church history --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1-499 --- Christian sociology --- Cities and towns --- City churches --- Church and state --- Sociologie religieuse --- Villes --- Paroisses urbaines --- Eglise et Etat --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History. --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- 253:711 --- 316:2 --- Pastoraal in de grootstad --- Godsdienstsociologie --- 316:2 Godsdienstsociologie --- 253:711 Pastoraal in de grootstad --- Christian history --- Cities --- Urban Studies --- chrétien --- ville --- urbanisme --- religion --- sécularisation

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Eusebius's groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianity and stands among the classics of Western literature. His iconic story of the church's origins, endurance of persecution, and ultimate triumph-with its cast of martyrs, heretics, bishops, and emperors-has profoundly shaped the understanding of Christianity's past and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical histories. This new translation, which includes detailed essays and notes, comes from one of the leading scholars of Eusebius's work and offers rich context for the linguistic, cultural, social, and political background of this seminal text. Accessible for new readers and thought-provoking for specialists, this is the essential text for anyone interested in the history of Christianity.

Church history --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- academic. --- ancient church. --- ancient world. --- bishop. --- christian church. --- christian history. --- christian. --- christianity. --- church history. --- culture. --- early christianity. --- early church. --- ecclesiastical. --- emperor. --- essay collection. --- essays. --- hard times. --- heretic. --- linguistics. --- martyr. --- persecution. --- political. --- religion and politics. --- religious history. --- religious studies. --- scholarly. --- social studies. --- translation. --- western literature. --- western philosophy. --- western religion. --- western world. --- Patrology --- Christian church history --- Classical Greek literature