Christian Churches & Denominations

The rise of the Capetian dynasty across the long thirteenth century, which rested in part on the family's perceived sanctity, is a story most often...

Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it wa...

During the early twentieth century, millions of southern blacks moved north to escape the violent racism of the Jim Crow South and to find employme...

This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia, between its first settlement in 1730 and the end of the Civil War, explores how an ant...

Christianity and monasticism have long flourished along the Nile in Middle Egypt, the region stretching from al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Dayr al-Ga...

A magisterial and masterful addition to the tradition of South African narrative non-fiction, Christa Kuljian's Sanctuary offers a welcome woman's ...

Why is the Church of England perceived by many as homophobic, misogynist, or just plain weird? Because two movements within it, the Calvinists and ...