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The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions
by Huston Smith
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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... ( read more)
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The illustrated book of Sacred Scriptures
by Timothy Freke
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Celebrates our diversity and illustrates the common understanding that links all people engaged in the spiritual quest.... ( read more)
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The Spiral Staircase
by Karen Armstrong
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Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before — hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. She knew almost nothing of the... ( read more)
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Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography
by Huston Smith
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Huston Smith, the man who brought the world's religions to the West, was born almost a century ago to missionary parents in China during the perilous rise of the Communist Party. Smith's lifelong spiritual journey brought him face-to-face with many of... ( read more)
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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius & Jesus #1: Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Volume I
by Karl Jaspers
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A part of Jaspers’s planned universal history of philosophy, focusing on the four paradigmatic individuals who have exerted a historical influence of incomparable scope and depth. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim.... ( read more)
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A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
by Karen Armstrong
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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)
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God: A Biography
by Jack Miles
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What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this... ( read more)
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Eerdmans Handbook to the World's Religions: A Comprehensive Guide Articles by Experts Photographs, Charts Fact-Finder Reference Section
by R Pierce Beaver
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Now thoroughly revised and updated, this comprehensive guidebook on the world's religions includes articles by more than 50 specialists, over 200 photos (100 in full color), numerous helpful maps and charts, and a handy "Rapid Fact Finder" glossary for... ( read more)
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
by Karen Armstrong
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During the Axial Age — 900 to 200 B.C.E. — the world's major religious traditions responded to their surrounding cultural influences and developed the philosophical attitudes they exhibit to this day. In lucid and reasoned prose Karen Armstrong... ( read more)
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Pilgrim Souls: A Collection of Spiritual Autobiography
by Amy Mandelker
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What is the source of personal writing? When do we begin to consider our own lives worthy of a story? These powerful and passionate selections of spiritual autobiography do not merely represent a vital literary tradition; they bring together fifty-eight... ( read more)
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The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions
by Huston Smith
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Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The Religions of Man and the current fully revised and updated The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing,... ( read more)
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The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
by Karen Armstrong
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Part of the Books that Changed the World series, this is a great overview of the history, writing, and translations of the Bible. Armstrong never fails to entertain and impress.... ( read more)
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When Religion Becomes Evil
by Charles Kimball
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< P> < b> A leading religion and mid& ndash; East expert presents a much& ndash; needed analysis of the factors of corruption in religion that lead to evil and violence in the world. Working across traditions and through history, he... ( read more)
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
by John Bowker
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Abridged from the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of religion available in paperback. Written by an expert team of contributors, the volume contains over 8,200 entries, an extensive... ( read more)
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History of Religious Ideas Volume 2
by Mircea Eliade
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In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German... ( read more)
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Jesus & Buddha
by Marcus Borg
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Discover the striking similarities between two of the world's greatest spiritual teachers.... ( read more)
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Do You Believe?: Conversations on God and Religion (Vintage)
by Antonio Monda
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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... ( read more)
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Meeting Islam: A Guide for Christians
by George Dardess
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Dardess invites readers to explore some of Islam's key facts, chief concepts, and practices, using his own failings and successes as a guide. He shares his own experiences as a deacon in the Catholic Church in Rochester, New York, seeking to build... ( read more)
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions (Cambridge Illustrated History)
by John Westerd Bowker
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions is a comprehensive survey of world religions from pre-history to the present day. Each religion is treated in depth, with text written by a recognized academic expert, and supported by extensive... ( read more)
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Making War in the Name of God
by Christop Catherwood
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Based on exhaustive research and written with an unflinching, unbiased eye toward revealing the often painful truth, this book unveils humanitys ancient habit of sanctifying bloodshed--and exposes a past that seems doomed to repeat itself.... ( read more)
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