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Book SynopsisThis book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license.This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church depict women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy inside two of the most important churches in Christendom—Old Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz’s research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy.Trade Review“Ally Kateusz has written an engaging and extensively researched book examining the evidence for liturgical roles for women in the early Church. … Mary and Early Christian Women will certainly be encouraging to those girls and women who have only seen examples of male leadership in the Church, and for whom the example of Mary has been misused and abused, by providing an alternative image of an empowered, active Mary as a type for female leadership in the early Church.” (Nell Whiscombe, Modern Believing, Vol. 64 (4), 2023)“This book will inspire Christian scholars, ministers, and congregations to rethink their perspectives on gender roles in Christianity. … this book will assist in breaking the prevalent misperception that early church women leaders were rare. It will challenge readers to fully acknowledge that women have been integrally present throughout Christian history.” (JungJa Joy Yu, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, April 27, 2021)“Ally Kateusz presents a multidisciplinary analysis of literary texts, church art, and church … . She supports her literary and iconographic claims with official church commissions, directives, and commentaries, sometimes made by popes. …. For scholars, the book is a treasure trove, with thirty-nine pages of references and fifty pages of notes. … Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership is a stimulating read and the author’s perspective on imagination and Christian history will make you think. Highly recommended.” (Elizabeth Ursic, Cross-Currents, Vol. 71 (1), March, 2021)“Mary and Early Christian Women would certainly interest readers who are invested in women’s roles in churches and especially readers invested in Catholicism. … The artwork included in this book is stunning, and the images portray Mary and other women in significant liturgical roles. Overall, Mary and Early Christian Women is a significant contribution to the field for its attention to extracanonical texts, artistic analysis, and its accessibility.” (Christy Cobb, RBL, Review of Biblical Literature, Issue 12, 2020)Table of Contents1. Background and Perspective on Mary Why the Mother of Jesus? Mary, a Jew Mary Remembered in the Extracanonical Gospels Methodology The Power of Bio-Power Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past 2. More Collyridian Déjà vu The Old Rule of Thumb: lectio brevior potior Redaction Analysis of Mary’s Religious Authority A Scene of Mary Exorcising Demons Women Using Censers and Incense Kernels of Historicity: Women Using Censers Liturgically Redaction Analysis of the Markers of Women’s Authority 3. Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers Assembling a Jigsaw Puzzle—The Apostle Mariamne in the Acts of Philip Sexual Slander as Evidence of Women in the Clergy Irene, Apostle of Jesus The Long Narrative about Irene’s Life Male Re-Baptizers and the Apostle Nino Irene Baptizes and Seals The “Apostle” Thecla Baptizes and Seals Dating Controversy: When Was the Life of Thecla Composed? The Thecla Tertullian Knew Cultural Context 4. Mary, High Priest and Bishop Jesus’s Mother Versus 1 Timothy Mary in Art: High Priest and Bishop Mary with the Episcopal Pallium Mary with the Cloth of the Eucharistic Officiant Women with the Cloth of the Eucharistic Officiant 5. Mother and Son, Paired Mother and Son Paired on Objects Used in the Liturgy Dividing the Mother-Son Dyad: The Maria Maggiore Mosaics The Mother-Son Dyad in Art Prior to the Council of Ephesus Mother and Son Paired in Third- and Fourth-Century Funereal Art 6. The Life of the Virgin and Its Antecedents The Oldest Text of the Life of the Virgin The Annunciation to Mary in the Temple Mary at the Baptism of Her Son The Women at the Lord’s Supper Partaking at the Temple Altar in the Gospel of Bartholomew Gender Parallelism in the Liturgy in the Didascalia apostolorum The Ritual of Body and Blood according to the Apostolic Church Order 7. Women and Men at the Last Supper: Reception Female and Male Co-Officiants from the Second Century Onwards Writings that Paired Male and Female Clerical Titles Women Overseers or Bishops Cerula and Bitalia, Ordained Bishops Historicity of Pulcheria inside the Holy of Holies of the Second Hagia Sophia Female and Male Clergy at the Altar in Old Saint Peter’s Basilica The Ciborium in Old Saint Peter’s Basilica The Altar in Old Saint Peter’s Basilica Possible Identification of the Male and Female Officiants at the Altar Table Theodora and Justinian in San Vitale: Modeling Mary and Jesus at the Last Supper Third-Century Evidence of Gender Parity at the Offering Table 8. Modes of Silencing Modes of Silencing the Past Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines different aspects of the experience and significance of childhood, youth and family relations in minority religious groups in north-west Europe in the late medieval, Reformation and post-Reformation era. It aims to take a comparative approach, including chapters on Protestant, Catholic and Jewish communities. The chapters are organised into themed sections, on 'Childhood, religious practice and minority status', 'Family and responses to persecution', and 'Religious division and the family: co-operation and conflict'. Contributors to the volume consider issues such as religious conversion, the impact of persecution on childhood and family life, emotion and affectivity, the role of childhood and memory, state intervention in children's religious upbringing, the impact of confessionally mixed marriages, persecution and co-existence. Some chapters focus on one confessional group, whilst others make comparisons between them.Trade Review“One of the strengths of this book is the variety of the sources used, which allows for a greater insight into how the religious upheaval of early modern Europe affected children across different religions. … the chapters are expertly written and do much to highlight the religious upheaval of the early modern period in Europe and its resulting impact on children from minority religions.” (Loretta Dolan, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 16 (1), 2023)“Childhood, Youth and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Europe should be of interest not only to those who study childhood, youth, and the family, but to anyone interested in minorities in medieval and early modern Europe. Readers interested in the history of emotions, identity formation, and migration—indeed, anyone who seeks a better understanding of interreligious conflicts and persecutions in premodern Europe—will also benefit from this collection.” (Eyal Levinson, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (4), October, 2021)Table of ContentsIntroductionChildhood, Religious Practice and Minority StatusJewish Children and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Illustrations‘All things necessary for their saluation’? The Dedham Ministers and the ‘Puritan’ Baptism Debates‘Children of the Light’: Childhood, Youth, and Dissent in Early Quakerism Childhood, Youth and Denominational Identity: Church, Chapel and Home in the Long Eighteenth CenturyFamily and Responses to PersecutionCross-Channel Conflict: The Challenges of Growing Up in Minority Calvinist Communities Across the ChannelA Web of Crosses and Mercies Interlaced: Breakdown and Consolidation of Family Patterns Amongst Loyalist Anglicans Under the Pressures of Civil War Childhood, Family and the Construction of English Catholic Histories of PersecutionReligious Division and the Family: Co-operation and ConflictEarly Modern Child Abduction in the Name of Religion.- Raising Children Across Religious Boundaries in the Dutch RevoltWhen They Come of Age: Religious Conversion and Puberty in Fifteenth-Century AshkenazConversion, Conscience, and Family Conflict in Early Modern EnglandConclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs the efforts that were made to establish a missionary network between the two Irish Colleges of Rome, Ireland, and the West Indies during the seventeenth century. It analyses the process which brought the Irish clergy to establish two dedicated colleges in the epicenter of early modern Catholicism and to develop a series of missionary initiatives in the English islands of the West Indies. During a period of great political change in Ireland, continental Europe and the Atlantic region, the book traces how and through which key figures and institutions this clerical channel was established, while at the same time identifying the main obstacles to its development. Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Irish Clergy in Rome in the Early Seventeenth Century3 The Beginning: The Founding of St. Isidore’s and of the Irish College4 Forging the Missionary Links between the "Urbs" and "Hibernia"5 A New Dimension to the Irish Mission: The West Indies6 Missionary Supply in Crisis Years: The Colleges and Ireland7 The Colleges in Transition8 "Ten Thousand Irish Catholics extremely Oppressed by the English Heretics": Rome, and the Irish Missions in the West Indies during the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century9 ConclusionAppendix I: List of students admitted to the Irish College of Rome, 1628-64Appendix II: List of students admitted to St. Isidore’s, 1625-54Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these approaches to governance varied from company to company, each sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the numerous communities and faiths which fell within their jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Introduction: ‘A Just Government’: Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation .- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion .- 3. The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622–1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance .- 4. Apostasy and Debauchery (1601–1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains .- 5. The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640–1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance .- 6. The East India Company (1661–1698): Territorial Acquisition and the ‘Amsterdam of Liberty’ .- 7. Conclusion .- 8. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Part I. Thinking Toleration Within Religious Traditions.- Chapter 1 Introduction to Section One: Toleration within Religious Traditions.- Chapter 2 Tolerance and Intolerance in the Hebrew Bible.- Chapter 3 Charitable Jewish Assessments of the Other: 8th-18th Centuries.- Chapter 4 Hasidism.- Chapter 5 Tolerance and Rights: An Exploration of Medieval Canon Law.- Chapter 6 Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Toleration.- Chapter 7 Tolerance in Islamic Thought and Praxis.- Chapter 8 On Pluralism in the Qur'an and Islamic Philosophy.- Chapter 8 The Quran’s Address to the Israelites Q. 2:122-152: A New Translation.- Chapter 9 Religious Toleration in Medieval Islamic Thought and Society.- Chapter 10 The Universality of Universal Peace: Central Asian Qalandars and ?ul?-i Kull.- Chapter 11 Religious Minorities Rights in Shiite Islam: A Shift from Institutional Discrimination to Absolute Equality.- Chapter 12 May No One Obstruct Them: Tibetan Buddhist Toleration for 18th-Century Capuchin Missionaries in Lhasa.- Chapter 13 A Play on Religious Tolerance in Early India.- Chapter 14 Ingredients of Toleration in Jain Philosophy.- Chapter 15 Beyond Toleration? Syncretism, Amalgamation, and Religious Multiplicity in the Shinto Tradition.- Part II Toleration and the State: Minority, Law and Politics.- Chapter 16 Introduction to Section Two: Toleration and the State: Minority, Law, Politics.- Chapter 17 Asoka’s Dhamma: Social Toleration or Communal Harmony.- Chapter 18 Late Roman Toleration? or How to Read an Imperial Edict: Theodosius to All the People on the Catholic Religion.- Chapter 19 Integration or Intolerance? Muslim-Jewish Convergence in the Zirid Kingdom of Granada.- Chapter 20 Two Texts on Toleration from Pre-1500 AD West Africa.- Chapter 21 Half-Toleration: Concordia and the Limits of Dialogue.- Chapter 22 Toleration and the Civil Magistrate in Early Modern Europe, 1517-1598.- Chapter 23 Regarding Toleration and Liberalism: Considerations from the Anglo-Jewish Experience.- Chapter 24 Tolerance and Religious Freedom in Early America.- Chapter 25 Toleration in the Ottoman Empire.- Chapter 26 The Way has not a Constant Name. State Attitudes to Religious Toleration in Chinese History.- Chapter 27 Akbar’s Mahabharata: An Indian Epic for the Mughal Emperor.- Chapter 28 Religious Minorities-States Relations in Modern Iran from Safavid Era to the Islamic Republic: Policies and Implications.- Chapter 29 Tolerance and Intolerance in Mexico.- Chapter 30 Post-1998 Indonesia: Ambiguous Stances Towards Toleration Amidst Growing Islamist Majoritarianism.- Part III Toleration and Sacred Space.- Chapter 31 Introduction to Section Three: Toleration & Sacred Spaces.- Chapter 32 Of Roman Bath-Houses, Mosques and Churches: Rabbinic-Jewish Approaches to Religious Spaces of Others.- Chapter 33 The Temple of Parfait Tolerance: an Island of Truce between Conflicting Worlds 13th- 18th Centuries.- Chapter 34 Accommodating Difference and Validating Diversity in Early Modern Europe.- Chapter 35 Toleration as Multiple Construction in the Post-Communist Realm: Dervish Luzha’s Tomb in Northern Albania.- Chapter 36 Building Faith and Identity in a Community Bound by History: The Nauroz Festival in Afghanistan.- Part IV Toleration Today: Conflicting Narratives, Competing Rights and New Frontiers of Dialogue.- Chapter 37 Introduction to Section Four: Toleration Today: Conflicting Narratives, Competing Rights, and New Frontiers of Dialogue.- Chapter 38 Religious Toleration and the Enlightenment.- Chapter 39 Tolerance Revisited.- Chapter 40 The Elusive Toleration of Islam in Europe.- Chapter 41 Toleration at the Nexus between Religious Freedom, Pluralism and Democracy: A Focus on the European Court of Human Rights.- Chapter 42 The Concept of Ubuntu in Contemporary Thought.- Chapter 43 Paradoxical Abraham: An Essay on Inter-Monotheistic Hospitality, Dialogue, and Hostility.

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Book SynopsisSinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

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Book SynopsisDie Reihe Patristische Texte und Studien publiziert seit 1963 Forschungsergebnisse, die durch die Patristische Kommission, heute ein Gemeinschaftsunternehmen aller deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften, koordiniert werden. In ihr erscheinen Editionen, Kommentare und Monographien zu den Schriften und Lehren der Kirchenväter.

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