E-böcker / Religion
Förunderligt och märkligt: en resa genom New Age i Sverige
Vad är New Age? Journalisten och författaren Lena Katarina Swanberg har gjort en djupdykning i den värld av andlighet som allt fler söker sig till. I kombination med studier och in ...
Svensk mystik
Per Gustaf Berg var en bokhandlare och boktryckare i Stockholm, som under sitt liv gav ut ett stort antal böcker – både andras och egna. Det av hans verk som överlevt bäst är Svens ...
Barnens Bästa Bibel : Påsken
Följ med till Jerusalem när Jesus och hans lärjungar ska fira påsk. En påsk som skulle bli helt annorlunda och mycket märklig. Redan när Jesus föddes var det något speciellt med ho ...
Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors
Rosemary Wenzerul's lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor. In a ...
Leva eller överleva
Vi lever i en tid av oro och rädsla, och vi är många som upplever att sorgen som alltid finns där djupt inom oss nu kommer upp till ytan. Sorg är svårt, men kan det också vara hopp ...
Jewish Lives
Jewish Lives presents the life-stories of ten individual Jews who immigrated to Britain between 1750 and 1950, based on actual genealogical research. Their life-stories, enriched b ...
Walk In the Light While There Is Light
A group of rich Russians gather one night for hospitality and conversation, all admitting that they aren’t happy and aren’t optimistic that their children will ever find happiness ...
The Knights Hospitaller
The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the p ...
Archaeology in the 'Land of Tells and Ruins'
Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who, at the age ...
Locating the Sacred
Ritual happens in distinct places – in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes – and religious activities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult sta ...
Signals of Belief in Early England
This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Pre ...
Anglo-Saxon Somerset
The county of Somerset cannot lay claim to have been an Anglo-Saxon kingdom like Kent or Sussex, but nevertheless it has a history as a distinct region which can be traced to the s ...
Gods and Garments
Textiles comprise a vast and wide category of material culture and constitute a crucial part of the ancient economy. Yet, studies of classical antiquity still often leave out this ...
The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Chancellor Senneferi at Thebes (TT99)
Senneferi was the chancellor of the king in Thebes (modern Luxor) in the reign of Thutmose III (c. 1430 BC). His large but badly damaged tomb lies in the hill of Sheikh Abdel Qurna ...
A Concordance to Biblical Gothic
Includes all Gothic texts in Biblical Gothic, and the Gothic calendar and the Deeds from Naples and Arezzo. Complete with Introduction, Texts and Concordance.
Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones
This book is the first major investigation of a subject of seminal importance in the study of church history and archaeology. The two stone thrones, at Wells and Durham, the three ...
Defining the Sacred
Religion is a phenomenon that is inseparable from human society. It brings about a set of emotional, ideological and practical elements that are pervasive in the social fabric of a ...
The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley
Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomit ...
Yes, The Arabs Can Too
Much has been written about the role and presence of the Arabs in the world at the beginning of this millennium, and their ability to meet the challenges overwhelming our planet, b ...
Living to Some Purpose
Often described as Iraq’s elder statesman, Dr Adnan Pachachi has enjoyed one of the longest and most distinguished political careers of modern times, both domestically and on the w ...
Encountering Islam
Long before European empires came to dominate the Middle East, Britain was brought face to face with Islam through the activities of the Barbary corsairs. For three centuries after ...
Half Past Ten in the Afternoon
Much of this book is a record of the time the author spent between 1965 and 1970 as an English teacher in Aneiza – a provincial town in central Saudi Arabia. In an entertaining ser ...
Accused
The image of the witch - crook-nosed, unpleasant of disposition and with a penchant for harming her neighbours - is well established in the popular imagination. For hundreds of yea ...
God's Generals
It is one of the more startling facts of military history that the founders of three of the four 'great religions'—Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam—were also accomplished field general ...
Fight the Good Fight
The Second World War challenged many of the concepts that had provided stability and unity in the world. As totalitarian regimes in Europe and Asia attempted to impose their world ...