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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life by Don Piper Publisher Comments Now available in a special edition for readers age 9-12, 90 Minutes in Heaven is the runaway bestseller about one man's experience with death and life. When Don Piper's car collided with a semi-truck he was pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Keys to Jerusalem: Collected Essays by Jerome Murphy-o'connor Publisher Comments Jerome Murphy-O'Connor has lived in Jerusalem for 48 years, during which time he has taught graduate students its history and archaeology, and also compiled a bestselling archaeological guidebook for visitors. The current volume provides an initial... (read more) Your price: $143.25 New - Hardcover
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Religion for Dummies (02 Edition) by Rabbi Marc Gellman Publisher Comments Gain a deeper understanding of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and other faiths! A wise and witty road map for exploring life’s 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: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India by Rodger Kamenetz Publisher Comments While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero Staff Pick Having called us a nation of "religious illiterates" on the first page, Steven Prothero had me intrigued and ready to read Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Prothero contends that while contemporary America values its position as a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings by Marcus Borg and Ray Riegert Publisher Comments Jesus and Buddha were separated by five hundred years, three thousand miles, and two drastically different cultures. Yet this trade paper edition of the highly acclaimed hardback juxtaposes passages from the New Testament and ancient Buddhist scriptures... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong From Powells.com In 1965, at the tender age of seventeen, Karen Armstrong took vows of poverty and chastity and entered a Catholic convent. However, she soon realized she was not suited to monastic life and left. Her 1981 memoir of her years as a novice became a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West by Daniel Ladinsky Publisher Comments In this transcendent collection, Daniel Ladinsky-best known for his gifted and best-selling translations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz-brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Myths of Greece and Rome by Thomas Bulfinch Publisher Comments The timeless stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome come to life beautifully in this lavishly illustrated edition.... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Case for God by Karen Armstrong Staff Pick Karen Armstrong writes about religion the way that Michael Pollan writes about food — methodically, insightfully, and with an obvious passion for the subject matter. Covering everything from antiquity's caves deep below the earth to the modern... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Real History of the End of the World: Apocalyptic Predictions from Revelation and Nostradamus to Y2K and 2012 by Sharan Newman Publisher Comments From the author of The Real History Behind the Templars — the origins and stories behind end-of-the-world predictions throughout history, from Revelations to 2012. In entertaining and sharp prose, historian Sharan Newman explores theories of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rome and Religion: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on the Imperial Cult by Jeffrey Brodd Book News Annotation The 15 papers in this collection are the print version of a dialogue that took place over the course of a year at Society meetings in 2008 in Boston and 2009 in Rome and New Orleans. Scholars of religion, The Bible, classics, and art look at Roman... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Hebrew Thought Compared With Greek by Thorleif Boman Publisher Comments "In its patient, lucid philological approach to crucial issues, in its breathtakingly compact treatment of significant voices from Heraclitus to Job to Bergson, and in the studied independence of its own lines of development and conclusions, Boman's book... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Gods of Greece by Arianna Huffington Book News Annotation The text was originally published with other illustrations in 1983 by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Here it is repackaged with reproductions of over 65 paintings by Francoise Gilot (the paintings were created independently--not expressly for the book). Neither... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Treasuresfrom Heaven: Relics from Noah's Ark to the Shroud of Turin by Steven Sora Publisher Comments A fascinating examination of the most famous religious relics of all time Since the early days of the Church, Christians have venerated religious relics. In this fascinating book, Steven Sora tells the story of Christianity's most treasured artifacts-the... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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An Archaeology of Religion by Kit W. Wesler Publisher Comments An Archaeology of Religion challenges traditional conventions by refusing to respect the geographic and temporal boundaries with which archaeologists too often define their field. This book is an ambitious attempt to survey how scholars approach the... (read more) List Price $59.99 Your price: $53.24 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The World's Religions (Plus) by Huston Smith Publisher Comments Huston Smith's masterpiece explores the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the native traditions of Australia, Africa, Oceania, and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Case for God (10 Edition) by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam by Kenneth L Woodward Publisher Comments For the first time in a single volume, Kenneth Woodward presents both the familiar and more obscure miracle stories of the great saints, sages, and spiritual masters of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam -- and explains their meaning in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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