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Bernard Hamilton is Professor Emeritus of Crusading History at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Beliefs Chapter 2 - Church services: the sacraments and public worship Chapter 3 - Church organization Chapter 4 - Ethical teaching Chapter 5 - Sources of Authority: the Bible and Tradition Chapter 6 - The Christian World Picture Chapter 7 - What did lay people know about their faith, and how did they know it? Chapter 8 - Rites of passage: baptism, marriage, death Chapter 9 - Popular religious devotions Chapter 10 - The lay quest for holiness and the Church's attempt to clericalize these movements Chapter 11 - Difficulties of belief Chapter 12 - The survival of the old religion Chapter 13 - Witchcraft, ritual magic and the cult of the Magus Chapter 14 - The growth of a dissenting tradition Chapter 15 - Contact with other forms of Christianity and other religions Glossary of technical terms

Religion in the Medieval West

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      Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
      Published 1/29/2003 12:08:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780340808399
      978-0340808399
      ISBN-10 034080839X
      Also in:
      Christianity History of religion Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Bernard Hamilton is Professor Emeritus of Crusading History at the University of Nottingham.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 - Beliefs Chapter 2 - Church services: the sacraments and public worship Chapter 3 - Church organization Chapter 4 - Ethical teaching Chapter 5 - Sources of Authority: the Bible and Tradition Chapter 6 - The Christian World Picture Chapter 7 - What did lay people know about their faith, and how did they know it? Chapter 8 - Rites of passage: baptism, marriage, death Chapter 9 - Popular religious devotions Chapter 10 - The lay quest for holiness and the Church's attempt to clericalize these movements Chapter 11 - Difficulties of belief Chapter 12 - The survival of the old religion Chapter 13 - Witchcraft, ritual magic and the cult of the Magus Chapter 14 - The growth of a dissenting tradition Chapter 15 - Contact with other forms of Christianity and other religions Glossary of technical terms

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