" Indeed, as Michael Novak points out in this brilliant book about the birth of the American Republic, the very first act of the Continental Congress was to pray to Divine Providence in the face of British bombardment of Boston.

Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflicts between deists and their opponents at the center of early American public life.

Charles Freeman shows how Constantine's conversion changed all of this: how imperial power began to stifle freedom of thought and the tradition of Greek rationalism intrinsic to it; how, for the first time, churches were bound into the ...

A criticism of Christianity from the secularist point of view.

The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders.

Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to dechristianize the French state and citizenry, it actually had long-term religious -- even Christian -- origins, claims Dale Van Kley in this controversial new book.

"Suger, abbot of the French abbey of Saint-Denis, lived from 1081 to 1151. This book of essays about his life and achievements grew out of a symposium sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art and by Columbia University .

In 1876, three girls from the German village of Marpingen claimed to see a vision of the Virgin Mary.

This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's Empereur et prêtre, an acknowledged masterwork by one of the great Byzantine scholars of our time.