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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 Best American Spiritual Writing (Best American Spiritual Writing)
by Paul Zaleski
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In his introduction to this volume, President Jimmy Carter writes that The Best American Spiritual Writing approaches the writing of both poetry and prose as a spiritual discipline, a way to explore the mysteries of the soul and the soul's relationship... ( 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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Spiral Staircase : My Climb Out of Darkness (04 Edition)
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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Faith Club : a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew--three Women Search for Understanding (06 Edition)
by Ranya Idliby
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A groundbreaking book about Americans searching for faith and mutual respect, The Faith Club weaves the story of three women, their three religions, and their urgent quest to understand one another. After September 11, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of... ( read more)
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World Religions (06 Edition)
by John Bowker
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Taking a refreshing new approach toward understanding different faiths, Bowker looks at the beliefs and practices of many different religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Islam. Illustrations.... ( 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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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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Living Buddha, Living Christ
by Thich Nhat Hahn
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Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course of two millennia. If they were to meet on the road... ( read more)
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The Sacred and Profane
by Mircea Eliade
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A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.... ( read more)
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Keeping Faith: a Skeptic's Journey
by Fenton Johnson
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In his resonant account of a spiritual quest, Fenton Johnson examines what it means for a skeptic to have and to keep faith. Exploring Western and Eastern monastic traditions, Johnson lives as a member of the community at the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani... ( read more)
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Abraham a Journey To the Heart of Three
by Bruce Feiler
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IntroductionHome They start walking just after dawn. They stream through the streets, begin climbing the hills, and drop a few coins in the outstretched palms of the poor. They leave their houses, their lives, their neighbors, and come by themselves or... ( read more)
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Breaking the Spell
by Daniel Clement Dennett
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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)
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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 Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spirtual Traditions
by Andrew Harvey
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Today more Americans than ever consider themselves to be "spiritual" people, and yet attendance at religious institutions is down, perhaps because many of us are searching for a way to encounter the divine on our own terms. In this... ( read more)
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The Best American Spiritual Writing (Best American Spiritual Writing)
by Philip Zaleski
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Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and... ( read more)
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Return to the Center
by Bede Griffiths
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Here Bede Griffiths offers the fruits of a lifetime spent in prayer and meditation. Griffiths is convinced that modern man has lost touch with the center of his own life and therefore with life itself. We must return to the center, ?the place of meeting... ( read more)
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Abraham (P.S.)
by Bruce S. Feiler
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Both immediate and timeless, Abraham tells the powerful story of one man's search for the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, andIslam. Traveling through war zones, braving violence at religious sites, andseeking out faith leaders, Bruce Feiler... ( read more)
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Urban Iona: Celtic Hospitality in the City
by Kurt Neilson
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Urban Iona is a modern Celtic tale of healing and vision during and after the author's pilgrimage to Iona and Ireland. This is a powerful account of the author's search for his family's story, and the meaning and inspiration that story brought to his... ( read more)
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902 (Economy Editions)
by William James
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After completing his monumental work, The Principles of Psychology, William James turned his attention to serious consideration of such important religious and philosophical questions as the nature and existence of God, immortality of the soul, and free... ( read more)
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