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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 $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Battle For God by Karen Armstrong From Powells.com "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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lotus Prayer Book Publisher Comments The Lotus Prayer Book is an inspiring collection of sacred prayers from various faiths and traditions, gathered together as a testimony to the central teaching of Sri Swami Satchidananda that Truth is One, Paths are Many.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $0.63 Used - Trade Paper
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Sainthood: Its Manifestations in World Religions by Richard Kieckhefer Publisher Comments Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Eliade Guide to World Religions by Mircea Eliade Book News Annotation 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) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - 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 An important new work on the authoritative texts of the Abrahamic religious traditions, Peters has written a comparative study of the three major Western faiths by examining scripture--Jewish, Christian, and Muslim--from every conceivable angle.... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Quest for Paradise: Visions of Heaven and Eternity in the World's Myths and Religions by John Ashton Publisher Comments In every culture, in every epoch, human beings have yearned for heaven -- the dwelling place of the gods, mirror of our hopes and desires. Now, in The Quest for Paradise,renowned scholar John Ashton and his colleague Tom Whyte offer an intriguing look at... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk by Susan T Hitchcock Publisher Comments An invitation to understand the five major religions of the world, this gorgeously illustrated book is an authoritative text that portrays the great religions of humankind with vivid photographs, tracing each religion from its ancient roots to its role... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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God's Breath : Sacred Scriptures of the World (00 Edition) by John Miller Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Jesus & Buddha by Marcus Borg Publisher Comments Discover the striking similarities between two of the world's greatest spiritual teachers.... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Meeting Islam: A Guide for Christians by George Dardess Synopsis 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions (Cambridge Illustrated History) by John Westerd Bowker Publisher Comments 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) List Price $56.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Making War in the Name of God by Christop Catherwood Synopsis 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Believing by Wilfred Cantw Smith Publisher Comments In this radical study, William Cantwell Smith traces the history of believing through a combination of philosophical perspective and the study of biblical passages.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Of Learning & Libraries: The Seminary Library at One Hundred by Herman Dicker Publisher Comments The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of Judaica and Hebraica in the Western Hemisphere; since its establishment one hundred years ago, seekers of knowledge throughtout the world... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $3.00 Used - Hardcover
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How to Talk Jewish by Jackie Mason Publisher Comments Using his hilarious and insightful wit to explain the meaning of every term he covers, Jackie Mason offers a picture window into a world of words that only he could elucidate. From yenta to schtick, Mason gives not only the literal meaning of Yiddish... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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