In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a new-found love of spontaneity transformed
Christian worship and revolutionized the Enlightenment's" culture of sensibility." Rituals of …

Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism asks what happened when the world was
shaken by challenges to the sacred order as people had known it, an order that regulated …

In this extensive study of two of the most celebrated seventeenth-century religious poets,
Robert Whalen examines the role of sacrament in the formation of early modern religious …

Fits, trances, visions, speaking in tongues, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences,
possession. Believers have long viewed these and similar involuntary experiences as …

Page 1 Revised and Expanded MICHAEL HORACE BARNES IN THE PRESENCE OF
MYSTERY An Introduction to the Story of Human Religiousness TWENTY-THIRD …

An ongoing concern of the sociology of religion has been to shed light on what religion
really is. Beyond the norms fixed by religious institutions in matters of belief, practice, and …

This book presents studies of early-nineteenth century religious thought in Germany, France
and Italy in so far as it reflected the influence of the Romantic movement. Romanticism may …

Like many ministers who preceded him, Charles M. Sheldon (1857-1946) faced a daunting
challenge: empty pews in his Sunday evening services. Sheldon himself was not to blame …

The courtly love tradition had a great influence on the themes of religious poetry just as an
absent beloved could be longed for passionately, so too could a distant God be the subject …

Can secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the secular view
simply affirm a dog-eat-dog universe? At a time when the issues of religion, evolution …