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  • The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cultural imagination, shaping values once defined by religion. In this book historian Alec Ryrie explores why society remains captivated by this struggle, from history and fiction to modern myths such as Star Wars and Harry Potter. He examines the costs of our Nazi obsession and questions what will come as our anti-Nazi moral consensus ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Protestants

    The Faith That Made the Modern World

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s theses, a landmark history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world."Ryrie writes that his aim 'is to persuade you that we cannot understand the modern age without understanding the dynamic history of Protestant Christianity.' To which I reply: Mission accomplished."–Jon Meacham, author of American Lion and Thomas JeffersonFive hundred years ago ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sorcerer's Tale

    Faith and Fraud in Tudor England

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man at work in sixteenth-century London. In this book, Alec Ryrie ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The English Reformation

    A Very Brief History

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    Series series Very Brief Histories
    'Masterly' - Eric Metaxas'Mould-breaking' - John Guy'A little gem of a book' - Suzannah LipscombFrom the Introduction:‘There is no such thing as “the English Reformation”. A "Reformation" is a composite event which is only made visible by being framed the right way. It is like a “war”: a label we put onto a particular set of events, while we decide that other – equally violent – acts are not part ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Entangling Web

    The Fractious Story of Christianity in Europe

    Edited by Alec Ryrie, Mark A. Lamport ...
    Series Book 4 - The Global Story of Christianity
    Europe has a tremendously important role in the history of Christianity and was the continent with the most Christians from roughly the year 900 to 1980. However, Europe is now home to only 22 percent of all Christians in the world, down from 68 percent in 1900. The major trend of European religion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has been secularization--disestablishment and decreased ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Reformation

    The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485–1603

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    Series series Religion, Politics and Society in Britain
    Now in its third edition, The Age of Reformation has been fully updated and extended, offering a comprehensive study of the relationships between religion, politics, and social change in the sixteenth century.The book charts the new challenges and crises facing the English, Scottish, and Irish states in the early modern age as they contended with the spread of Protestantism and a powerful Tudor ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Moderate Voices in the European Reformation

    Edited by Luc Racaut, Alec Ryrie ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Between the religious massacres, conflicts and martyrdoms that characterised much of Reformation Europe, there seems little room for a consideration of the concept of moderation. Yet it was precisely because of this extremism that many Europeans, both individuals and regimes, were forced into positions of moderation as they found themselves caught in the confessional crossfire. This is not to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Unbelievers

    An Emotional History of Doubt

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    “How has unbelief come to dominate so many Western societies? The usual account invokes the advance of science and rational knowledge. Ryrie’s alternative, in which emotions are the driving force, offers new and interesting insights into our past and present.”—Charles Taylor, author of A Secular AgeWhy have societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? We think we know the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity

    by Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer, Felicity Heal, Dr Sarah Apetrei, Revd Canon Dr Judith D. Maltby, Alison Dight, Professor Eamon Duffy, Canon Professor Michael Snape, Hannah Cleugh, Ashley Null, Alec Ryrie1, Jonathan Yonan3, Dr James Carleton Paget4, Professor Morna D. Hooker5, Anik Laferriere6, Professor Korey Maas7, Professor Euan Cameron8, Ethan H. Shagan9 ...
    Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store by orthodoxy - literally, 'right opinion' - even if they cannot agree what that orthodoxy should be. The notion that there is a 'catholic', or universal, Christian faith - that which, according to the famous fifth-century formula, has been believed everywhere, at all times and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    The Parish Church was the primary site of religious practice throughout the early modern period. This was particularly so for the silent majority of the English population, who conformed outwardly to the successive religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What such public conformity might have meant has attracted less attention - and, ironically, is sometimes less well ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Scholars increasingly recognise that understanding the history of religion means understanding worship and devotion as well as doctrines and polemics. Early modern Christianity consisted of its lived experience. This collection and its companion volume (Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain, ed. Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie) bring together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Age of Reformation

    The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603

    by Alec Ryrie ...
    Series series Religion, Politics and Society in Britain
    The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in the parishes.In this book, Alec Ryrie provides an authoritative overview of the religious and political reformations of the sixteenth century. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD