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Faith Club : a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew--three Women Search for Understanding (06 Edition)
by Ranya Idliby  Publisher Comments A groundbreaking book about Americans searching for faith and mutual respect, The Faith Club weaves the story of three women, their three religions, and their urgent quest to understand one another. After September 11, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of...
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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...
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Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--And How to Talk about It
by Krista Tippett Publisher Comments The host of public radios Speaking of Faith explores the role of faith in the world and in human life today Krista Tippett is the creator and host of public radios phenomenally popular program Speaking of Faith, a weekly conversation about religion...
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The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions
by Huston Smith
Publisher Comments With a new preface and fresh package, this completely revised and updated version of The Religions of Man explores the essential elements and teachings of the world’s predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam...
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The Jew in the Lotus: Poet's Re-Discovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India, a
by Rodger Kamenetz Publisher Comments "A highly entertaining personal account of one man's surprising journey into the mystical heart of Judaism."--Kirkus...
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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
by Israel Finkelstein Publisher Comments In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman draw on recent archaeological research to present a dramatically revised portrait of ancient Israel and its neighbors. They argue that crucial...
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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't
by Stephen Prothero Publisher Comments The United States is one of the most religious places on earth, but it is also a nation of shocking religious illiteracy.Only 10 percent of American teenagers can name all five major world religions and 15 percent cannot name any.Nearly two-thirds of...
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Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life
by Joseph Ratzinger Synopsis Originality Published in English in 1988, Joseph Ratzinger's Eschatology remains internationally recognized as a leading text on the "last things"--heaven and hell, purgatory and judgment, death and the immortality of the soul. This highly anticipated...
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments From one of the world’ s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual...
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The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
by David Berlinski Publisher Comments Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a...
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HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions: The A-To-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions
by Mircea Eliade Publisher Comments This definitive volume presents an overview of all thirty-three of the world's principal religions. Renowned religion scholar Mircea Eliade based this compact volume on his three volume History of Religious Ideas and on the sixteen volume Encyclopedia...
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The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts
by Marvin W. Meyer Publisher Comments Zeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more immediate to the concerns of people living in an increasingly...
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Abraham (P.S.)
by Bruce S. Feiler Publisher Comments Both immediate and timeless, Abraham tells the powerful story of one man's search for the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, andIslam. Traveling through war zones, braving violence at religious sites, andseeking out faith leaders, Bruce Feiler...
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Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another and Other Lessons from the Desert Fathers
by Rowan Williams Publisher Comments The place where God happens, according to Rowan Williams's striking new reading of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, is between each other, It's a truth that we of the twenty-first century most urgently need to learn in order to heal the experience of...
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Everything You Know about God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion
by Russ Kick Publisher Comments In the new mega-anthology from best-selling editor Russ Kick, more than fifty writers, reporters, and researchers invade the inner sanctum for an unrestrained look at the wild and wooly world of organized belief. Richard Dawkinsshows us the strange...
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When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs
by Charles Kimball Publisher Comments In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, leading religion and Middle East expert Charles Kimball shows how all religious traditions are susceptible to these basic corruptions and why only authentic faith can prevent such evil. The Five Warning...
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When Religion Becomes Evil
by Charles Kimball Publisher Comments <p>Top Religion Book of 2002--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p> <p>The Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion</p> <ol> <li>Absolute Truth Claims <li>Blind Obedience <li>Establishing the Ideal...
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Do You Believe?: Conversations on God and Religion (Vintage)
by Antonio Monda Publisher Comments Some of the most well-known and well-respected cultural figures of our time enter into intimate and illuminating conversation about their personal beliefs, about belief itself, about religion, and about God. Antonio Monda is a disarming, rigorous...
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Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
by Neale Donald Walsch Publisher Comments An uplifting masterwork of comfort and compassion exploringthe ultimate questions of existence and transcendence. Nothing has riveted humanity's interest more, nor has anything been more frightening or awe-inspiring, than the finality of death. In Home...
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Three Views on the Rapture: Pre; Mid; Or Post-Tribulation (Counterpoints)
by Gleason Leonard, Jr. Archer Publisher Comments Premillennialists continue to be divided on the question of the rapture of the church. Will it occur before, in the middle of, or after the tribulation? Drs. Feinberg (pretribulation), Archer (midtribulation), and Moo (post-tribulation) present the cases...
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