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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 $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Feiler Synopsis Rabbi MARC-ALAIN OUAKNIN is the director of the Aleph Center for Research and Jewish Studies In Paris. DOM ROBERT LE GALL has been Abbot of Kergonan in Brittany since 1983 and is also the author of books and articles on liturgy and spirituality A... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mircea Eliade Publisher Comments This essay on humanity's experience of history and its interpretation begins with a study of the traditional or mythological view and concludes with a comparative estimate of modern historiological approaches.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Publisher Comments Traces the experiences of a Jewish American who converted to radical Islam during his college years and accepted a job in Saudi Arabia where he worked for an extremist charity that was eventually charged by the U.S. government for funding terrorist... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Willard Oxtoby Publisher Comments This volume is a major introduction the religious traditions of Middle Eastern origin. The substantial chapters on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam will stand as definitive surveys for years to come. There are also chapters on Zoroastrianism, Greek and... (read more) List Price $58.50 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Carlson Publisher Comments One of the most profound needs of our age, when so many violent conflicts are based on perceived religious differences, is to affirm the common ground of organized religion and personal spirituality. In this accessible collection, 25 of the world's... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew B Newberg Publisher Comments WHY DO YOU BELIEVE THE THINGS YOU BELIEVE? Do you remember events differently from how they really happened? Where do your superstitions come from? How do morals evolve? Why are some people religious and others nonreligious? Everyone has thoughts and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rodney Stark Publisher Comments Discovering God is a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age. Sociologist Rodney Stark surveys the birth and growth of religions around the world—from the prehistoric era of primal beliefs; the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Feiler
Powells.com Staff Pick From the beginning of pre-history, human cultures have rooted sacred stories in actual landscapes, a legacy that becomes increasingly untenable as ballooning populations find it difficult to share their sacred places. Nowhere is this trend more evident... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Jordan Publisher Comments Encyclopedia of Gods offers concise information on more than 2,500 deities worshipped around the world and throughout history, from the most ancient gods of polytheistic societies -- to the most contemporary gods of the major monotheistic religions. Each... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Mitchell Publisher Comments An anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to the bestselling Tao Te Ching. • The Upanishads • The Book of Psalms • Lao-tzu • The Bhagavad Gita &... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ari L Goldman Publisher Comments "Enriching...A well-written, absorbing depiction of a fascinating school." THE BOSTON GLOBE In 1985, Ari L. Gldman took a year's leave from his job as a religion reporter for THE NEW YORK TIMES and enrolled in the Harvard Divnity School. What began as a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Clement Dennett Publisher Comments An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why we believe in God and how religion shapes our lives and our future. For a growing number of people, there is nothing more important than religion. It is an integral part of their... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Da Gartenstein Ross Publisher Comments My Year Inside Radical Islam is a memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction. Raised in liberal Ashland, Oregon, by parents who were Jewish by birth but dismissive of strict dogma, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross converted to Islam in college-a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Harvey Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234).... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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