The literature within it is the most important reason for rise of Tamil as a separate classical language. Poets play major role in creation such literature. Those who created before poets were singers. performers are farm based artists. organizer fund was called Panar. one played finger according to man Virali and performed koothu Koothar. Artists lived during Sangam period collectively Pan. Li...

Why did conversion to Christianity take place in some Asian areas and not others? What happened when sacred and religious texts from Abrahamic traditions, especially Christianity, were translated into Chinese? What were the effects when the secular and the religious were asserted to be separate realms? What were the consequences for ideas about the private, the public, and the state? How did re...

Among many indigenous peoples of Amazonia, shamanism and Christianity co-exist as central cultural elements shaping the ways in which people interpret and interact with the world. Despite centuries of co-existence, the relationship between shamanism and Christianity has entered an especially dynamic era as many of Amazonia’s indigenous peoples abandon Catholicism for Evangelical and Sabbatarian...

As a religion based on the teaching of Jesus Christ, from the outset Christianity has developed a completely different attitude toward health and illness than the Old Testament. Health and illness are now viewed through the eyes of Jesus Christ the redeemer, who accepted each and every man. The history of Christianity has had its episodes of masochistic attitude toward illness, but today it cle...

Today, Patristic Studies approach the exciting theological problems that arose in first centuries of our era from new paradigms analysis. In this sense, existence a diversity currents early Christianity is an indisputable fact for contemporary research, since there no doubt pluriformity positions interpretations texts and notions. The classification various Christianities into “proto-orthodox o...

The object of the study is atheism and theism as important ideological components two opposing solutions to "main question philosophy" – materialism idealism forming systems human life navigation. subject paradigms Soviet Orthodox Christianity. Materialism are fundamental elements Marxist doctrine underlying philosophy culture period Russian history, theism, creationism providentialism Christia...

W. J. SHEILS (editor), The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19), Oxford, Basil Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 440, £19.50. This collection of essays represents a thoughtful, stimulating, and generally successful cooperative attempt by medical and ecclesiastical historians to study an important topic, the relationship between the Christi...