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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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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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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
by Karen Armstrong
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In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with the... ( read more)
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Bollingen Series #0076: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
by Mircea Eliade
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Writing as a historian of religion, Eliade synthesizes the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology to study the figure of the shaman, at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, psychopomp, priest, mystic, and poet.... ( read more)
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Scary Nuns: Sisters at Work and at Play
by Essential Works
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They are known as the Brides of Christ. They wear all-black robes tied with heavy rosary beads and crucifixes that would make any child wince. They cover their heads with vast, winglike hoods. They have no legs but roll along on silent casters. They do... ( read more)
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Religion Explained : the Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (01 Edition)
by Pascal Boyer
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Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science... ( read more)
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Religions (Eyewitness Companions)
by Philip Wilkinson
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This illustrated volume introduces general readers to religions
around the world, focusing on the ones that have the most adherents
and influence through history. It begins with the definition and
common features of religions, then covers primal... ( read more)
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The Eliade Guide to World Religions
by Mircea Eliade
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A survey of the world's major religions, religious personalities,
histories, sacred texts, mythologies, and mystical techniques,
distilled from the late Mircea Eliade's three-volume History of
religious ideas and drawing on the 16-volume Macmillan... ( read more)
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Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions
by Huston Smith
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<p>This classic companion to <I>The World's Religions</I> articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditions</p>... ( read more)
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The Battle For God
by Karen Armstrong
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"In The Battle for God, Armstrong brilliantly traces the struggle between the burgeoning Western secularism and the religious fundamentalism that has dogged its heels for the past five hundred years, culminating in that greatest of all fundamentalist... ( read more)
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Beyond the Post Modern Mind Updated & Re
by Huston Smith
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The limits of science in discerning Ultimate Reality have brought Westerners to "as sharp an impasse in history as we have faced, " says Huston Smith. This new edition of critically acclaimed essays explores possible breakthroughts in the direction of... ( read more)
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Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions (Faith Meets Faith)
by D Smith Christopher
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Designed for group or personal study, Subverting Hatred describes the teachings and resources on nonviolence within nine different religious traditions. Representatives of these traditions describe not only the significant contributions to nonviolence of... ( 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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God's Breath : Sacred Scriptures of the World (00 Edition)
by John Miller
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For millennia seekers of truth have found God in a handful of sacred texts. Now God's Breath gathers together selections from seven of the world's major wisdom traditions. The title comes from a Zen saying, "To understand God is to listen. Listen to... ( read more)
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Muslim and Christian Reflections on Peace: Divine and Human Dimensions
by J Dudley Woodberry
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When Muslim and Christian scholars met in 2001 for a symposium on inter-religious dialogue as a contribution to world peace, little did they know that September 11th was less than three months away. The events of that tragic day and other conflicts in... ( 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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