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History of Religion

The African American Church Community in Rochester, New York, 1900-1940
A detailed and thoughtful account of the role played by African-American churches in pre-1940 Rochester to create and sustain a community for its members.

The American Enlightenment
Series: Library of the History of Ideas

An Anthology of Henry George's Thought [Vol. 1, Henry George Centennial Trilogy]
Henry George, the centenary of whose death this three-volume anthology commemorates, was one of the first `social philosophers'; this anthology presents the essentials of his thought.

Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Series: Studies in Comparative History
A re-examination of the social processes behind religious conversions in the Ancient and Early Middle Ages.

Conversion: Old Worlds and New
Series: Studies in Comparative History
A historical investigation of the phenomena of religious conversion from ancient to modern times.

Discovering China
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Studies of the reaction of European thinkers of the Enlightenment - Leibniz, Wolff, Hegel, Kant, et al -to Chinese culture and ideas.

Essays on the History of Aesthetics
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Twenty-five formative essays on the history of aesthetics, originally published over the past 50 years in the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Essays on Political Philosophy
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Twenty-three influential essays on political philosophy,culled from the published riches of the JHIover the past half-century.

Figures on the Horizon
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
JHI essays on Durkheim, Wittgenstein, Spengler et al and their theories on society versus the individual.

The History of Ideas
Series: Library of the History of Ideas

Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Galilee
Series: Land of Galilee
A report on the work of the Institute for Galilean Archaeology of the University of Rochester.

Language and the History of Thought
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
17 essays discussing the role of language in the history of western thought.

Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation
The first empirical analysis of the role of the Catholic League in the Counter-Reformation of the French state in the 16th century.

Music and the Occult
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
A study of the hitherto unexplored relationship between occult philosophy and its expression in music, in the decades surrounding the Romantic period and up to the middle of the 20th century.

The Philosophical Canon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Essays on philosophy and intellectual history, focusing in particular on John Locke.

Philosophy and the Darwinian Legacy
Has exclusion of Darwin's views on evolution distorted 20c philosophy? Cunningham suggests a reappraisal.

Philosophy, Religion and Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Studies reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of science, philosophy and religion in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Politics of Piety
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
A history of the role played by the Franciscans during the contentious Wars of Religion [1562-1594].

Race, Class and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
20 essays reprinted from the Journal of the History of Ideas which contribute to an understanding of how the concepts of race, class and sex were viewed in the 19th century.

Race, Gender, and Rank
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Essays examining transformations in perceptions of race, gender and rank from the 15th to the 19th centuries.

Renaissance Essays
Series: Library of the History of Ideas

Renaissance Essays
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Fifteen classic essays illuminate a broad cross-section of the intellectual history of the Renaissance.

Renaissance Essays II
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
A second collection of essays on renaissance themes from JHI.

Renaissance Essays II (paperback)
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
A second collection of essays on renaissance themes from JHI.