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unusual facts about religious history



Dialog Center International

According to According to Mikael Rothstein, an associate professor of religious history at the University of Copenhagen, the Dialog Center International has been greatly influential in promoting a negative public opinion of cults in Denmark and other countries in Europe.


see also

Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben

Ozment, Steven, The Age of Reform 1250–1550, An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986, ISBN 9780300027600

Antonín Rezek

Antonín Rezek (13 January 1853 Jindřichův Hradec – 4 February 1909 Prague) was a renowned Czech political historian, specialized in political and religious history of the 16th to 18th century.

BYU College of Religious Education

Church History and Doctrine focuses on courses related to the Doctrine and Covenants, missionary work, the religious history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and LDS Temples.

Eleanor Duckett

Duckett published a number of books with University of Michigan Press, mainly on European history, religious history, and saints, and was a reviewer for The New York Times Book Review.

Gerd Tellenbach

Gerd Tellenbach (1903–1999) was a German historian and scholar of medieval social and religious history, particularly of the Papacy and German church during the Investiture Controversy and reform movements of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Molly Worthen

Raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, she graduated from Yale in 2003 and earned a Ph.D. in American religious history there in 2011.

Otto Eissfeldt

Otto Eissfeldt (September 1, 1887 in Northeim – April 23, 1973) was a German Protestant theologian, known for his work on the Old Testament and comparative near-east religious history.

Seeking a Sanctuary

Stephen Hunt, Journal of Religious History, 32:1 (March 2008), p123–124 (full text available through ATLA)

White magic

In his 1978 book, A History of White Magic, recognised occult author Gareth Knight traces the origins of white magic to early adaptations of paleolithic religion and early religious history in general, including the polytheistic traditions of Ancient Egypt and the later monotheistic ideas of Judaism and early Christianity.