Download or read book Religious Holidays and Calendars written by Karen Bellenir and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive source of information about the calendars and holidays of the world's religions. Provides concise information about the beliefs, practices, and history of more than 20 major religions. Additional features include bibliography, calendar index, holiday index, and master index.
Download or read book Religious Holidays and Calendars written by Aidan A. Kelly and published by Omnigraphics. This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religious Holidays and Calendars written by Aidan A. Kelly and published by Omnigraphics. This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religious Holidays and Calendars written by Karen Bellenir and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an overview of the time-keeping and holiday traditions of the world's major religions.
Download or read book Calendars in Antiquity written by Sacha Stern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calendars were at the heart of ancient culture and society and were far more than just technical, time-keeping devices. Calendars in Antiquity offers a comprehensive study of the calendars of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world, from the origins up to and including Jewish and Christian calendars in late Antiquity.
Download or read book The Christian Seasons In Verse written by Christian Seasons and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calendars written by Brian Williams and published by Cherrytree Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series provides a history of time and our gradual comprehension, measuring and recording of different types of time. This text looks at calendars. It emphasises science and history with key dates boxes and spreads that act as mini timelines and is suitable for school projects.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Divine Worship Missal written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine written by Jörg Rüpke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a definitive account of the history of the Roman calendar, offering new reconstructions of its development that demand serious revisions to previous accounts. Examines the critical stages of the technical, political, and religious history of the Roman calendar Provides a comprehensive historical and social contextualization of ancient calendars and chronicles Highlights the unique characteristics which are still visible in the most dominant modern global calendar
Download or read book World Religions in Practice written by Paul Gwynne and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Religions in Practice introduces five of the world's great religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – and explores how they are lived and expressed in custom, ritual, and symbol. A major new textbook exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices – by focusing on this 'lived experience' it goes beyond many traditional introductions to religious studies Adopts a directly comparative approach to develop a greater understanding of the nature of religion Each chapter engages with an individual theme, such as birth, death, food, pilgrimage and ethics, to illustrate how religious practices are expressed Broadens students' understanding by offering an impartial discussion of the similarities and differences between each religion Includes chapter-by-chapter opening themes and summaries, and will be accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/gwynne featuring additional resources and study questions.
Download or read book Companion to the Calendar Second Edition written by Kathy Coffey and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion to the Calendar, Second Edition has been revised to include the additional saints added to the proper calendar for the dioceses of the United States of America. While still including biographical information about the saints that are celebrated on the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar in the dioceses of the United States, the theological meaning of the various liturgical seasons, and explanations of secular days and Jewish and Muslim feasts, this Second Edition has also been revised to include additional Catholic days such as Marian and sanctoral observances, devotions from particular cultures (Hispanic, Vietnamese, etc), and other observances such as Catholic Schools Week and the World Day of the Sick.
Download or read book Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar written by C. Philipp E. Nothaft and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the later Middle Ages (twelfth to fifteenth centuries), the study of chronology, astronomy, and scriptural exegesis among Christian scholars gave rise to Latin treatises that dealt specifically with the Jewish calendar and its adaptation to Christian purposes. In Medieval Latin Christian Texts on the Jewish Calendar C. Philipp E. Nothaft offers the first assessment of this phenomenon in the form of critical editions, English translations, and in-depth studies of five key texts, which together shed fascinating new light on the avenues of intellectual exchange between medieval Jews and Christians.
Download or read book The Islamic and Christian Calendars written by Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville and published by Ithaca Press (GB). This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a new version of my The Muslim and Christian calendars (1963, 1977 [2nd. ed.]) which is now out of date. The revision takes both Islamic and Christian dates up to AD 2222. The original was written primarily for eastern Africa, and has been altered to meet a wider demand and to emend errors in the earlier printing."--
Download or read book Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls written by James C. VanderKam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts.
Download or read book Religion and the Politics of Time written by Noah Shusterman and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and the Politics of Time is an extensive study of the changes in religious holidays in Old Regime and Revolutionary France.
