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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold Publisher Comments The tenth parallel, the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator, is the defining metaphor of our time. An ideological front line stretching across two continents and nineteen countries, this is where Christianity and Islam collidea... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World by Stephen Prothero Publisher Comments Stephen Prothero, the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy, makes a fresh and provocative argument that, contrary to popular understanding, all religions are not simply different paths to the same end… and why this matters... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims by Joan Chittister Publisher Comments The Tent of Abraham is the first book to tell the entire story of Abraham and to reenergize it as a basis for peace. Written by three leaders belonging to different faiths, the book explores in accessible language the mythic quality and the teachings of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Evolution of God (Back Bay Readers' Pick) by Robert Wright Staff Pick Robert Wright's The Evolution of God is a fascinating history of religion in all its forms, from the beginning stirrings of theology to the conflicting faiths we live with today. This intelligent, accessible, and thorough book gives us new insight into... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Connecting Christ: How to Discuss Jesus in a World of Diverse Paths by Paul Louis Metzger Publisher Comments What does Christian witness look like in an increasingly multifaith society? While it is more important than ever to preach the Word of God, as Scripture exhorts us, it is also important that we dialogue with people from diverse perspectives... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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In the Valley of the Shadow: On the Foundations of Religious Belief (and Their Connection to a Certain, Fleeting State of Mind) by James L Kugel Publisher Comments Ten years ago, when Harvard professor James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer, “I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that . . . the background music had suddenly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition (Plus) by Huston Smith Publisher Comments In this elegant and concise treatise, Huston Smith examines and puts forth what being a Christian has meant for him personally, how it has shaped his life and beliefs. In contrast to the misguided course of culturally rigid and intolerant evangelical and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs: Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth by Solomon Schimmel Publisher Comments The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is a passionate yet analytical critique of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalists. Schimmel examines the ways in which otherwise intelligent and bright Jews, Christians, and Muslims defend their... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.74 Sale - Hardcover
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The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 (Best Spiritual Writing) by Philip Zaleski Publisher Comments "A trove of well-wrought, luminous, soul-bracing gifts." -Thomas Lynch (on the 2010 edition) With selection chosen from a vast range of journals and magazines, The Best Spiritual Writing 2011 gathers the finest pieces of spiritual writing to appear in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Religion for Dummies (For Dummies) by Marc Gellman Publisher Comments Gain a deeper understanding of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and other faiths! A wise and witty road map for exploring lifes big questions Why are we here? How should we live? What happens after we die? Why does evil exist? This lively and... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Heart of a Heartless World: Religion as Ideology by Scott Mann Synopsis Seeks to explain the origin and development of religion in social, economic and political life.... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Heartbeat of God: Finding the Sacred in the Middle of Everything by Katharine Jefferts Schori Publisher Comments We are all connected, writes Katharine Jefferts Schori, as human beings with each other, as one nation with all other nations, and as the human species with the whole of our environment. At a population of 7 billion we can no longer, if we ever could... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Religions of the United States in Practice: Volume Two (Princeton Readings in Religions) by Colleen Mcdannell Publisher Comments "This anthology presents the reader with a rich sampling of the ways in which American religion has been practiced. It implicitly challenges some of the standard temporal and thematic categories through which American religion has been understood. The... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $11.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments Bruce Feilers New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With Americas Prophet, Feiler looks at Moses and the essential role the prophet has played in our nations history and... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Voice, the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims by F E Peters Publisher Comments "The Voice, the Word, the Books is an important new work on the authoritative texts of the Abrahamic religious traditions. It amounts to a comparative study of the three major Western faiths by looking through a window--in this case the window of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The New Religions (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions) by Jacob Needleman Publisher Comments Now restored to print, here is philosopher Jacob Needleman?s groundbreaking study of America?s alternative spiritual movements, with a new introduction by the author. Originally published in 1970, The New Religions was the first full-scale study of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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In Defense of Religious Moderation by William Egginton Publisher Comments In his latest book, William Egginton laments the current debate over religion in America, in which religious fundamentalists have set the tone of political discourse and prominent atheists treat religious belief as the root of all evil. Neither of these... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Hardcover
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell Publisher Comments American Grace is “perhaps the most sweeping look yet at contemporary American religion. It lays out the broad trends of the past fifty years, assesses their sociological causes, and then does a bit of fortune-telling” (The Washington Post... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Sacred and Profane by Mircea Eliade Publisher Comments A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian Mircea Eliade In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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People of Faith: A Companion to the Revised Common Lectionary by John Mabry Synopsis This lectionary could well be a means of encouraging a crucial conversation between Muslims and Hindus, Buddhists and Jews, and others. In a world where religious fanatics are seriously seeking weapons of mass destruction, it is essential that religious... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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