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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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God: An Itinerary by Regis Debray Publisher Comments Why, after Marx and Nietzsche, are those beliefs, which came to light in the desert three thousand years ago still among us? And why is it that hundreds of millions of men and women still follow them? Translated by Jeffrey Mehlman.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The New American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guide by Elizabeth Lesser Publisher Comments "Elizabeth Lesser offers up a rich cornucopia of lessons for the soul in The New American Spirituality, a warm and fascinating account of a modern pilgrimage." --Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence In the crowded field of books... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert Neelly Bellah Publisher Comments Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Compact Guide To World Religions by Dean Halverson Publisher Comments Keys to understanding our shrinking world A generation ago almost everyone a Christian encountered went to church--or at least knew he or she should. Today, with the world at America's doorstep, evangelical Christians more than ever need to understand... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Publisher Comments The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Religious Ideas Volume 2 by Mircea Eliade Publisher Comments 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) List Price $44.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief by Rodney Stark Publisher Comments Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today Award of Merit in Theology/Ethics The History of God In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark presents a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd by Mary Rose Oreilley Synopsis Transcendence can come in many forms. For Mary Rose OReilley a year tending sheep seemed a way to seek a spirituality based not on “climbing out of the body” but rather on existing fully in the world, at least if she could overlook some of its... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 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 $55.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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God in all worlds :an anthology of contemporary spiritual writing by Lucinda Vardey Publisher Comments From Thomas Merton and Krishnamurti to Albert Einstein and Mother Teresa, this magnificent collection of spiritual writings features works designed to renew the soul and celebrate its journey toward the divine.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The New-England Primer (Vocabulary of a Warrior) by Vision Forum Publisher Comments The single most influential Christian textbook in history, most scholars agree that most, if not all, of the Founding Fathers were taught to read and write using this The New England Primer, which is unsurpassed to this day for its excellence of... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tongues of Fire a Bible of Sacred Script by Grace Hill Turnbull Publisher Comments I have chosen those passages which seem to have the greatest beauty and spiritual appeal, leaving it to the reader to enter on his own account into a more intensive study of that religion which interests him most... I hope it may lead others to compile... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred East by C Scott Littleton Publisher Comments A guide to the spiritual and philosophical traditions of Asia, explaining the key ideas that have entered our spiritual vocabulary - such as karma and enlightenment.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Religious Pluralism in the West by David George Mullan Publisher Comments Religious Pluralism in the West: An Anthologypresents a complete historical overview of the themes relating to religious intolerance, toleration and liberty. The issue of religious pluralism continues to be high on the agenda in our increasingly... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion by Jonathan Z Smith Publisher Comments Led by general editor Jonathan Z. Smith, a team drawn from the American Academy of Religion has collected more than 3,200 entries written by 327 leading experts from around the world and across the theological and religious spectrum. The exceptional... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography by Huston Smith Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bollingen Series #0076: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade Publisher Comments 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) List Price $32.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure by Elizabeth Lesser Publisher Comments In 1977, Elizabeth Lesser cofounded the Omega Institute, now America's largest adult-education center focusing on wellness and spirituality. Working with many of the eminent thinkers of our times, including Zen masters, rabbis, Christian monks... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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