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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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The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding
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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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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Way Things Are : Conversations With Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life (03 Edition)
by Huston Smith
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In this collection of interviews and essays, bestselling religion author Smith discusses "the spiritual life" with well known writers and luminaries.... ( 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 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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Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
by Daniel Ladinsky
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In this transcendent collection, Daniel Ladinsky-best known for his gifted and best-selling translations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz-brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the... ( read more)
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Preparing to Practice #3: The Sacred Art of Fasting: Preparing to Practice
by Thomas Ryan
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The Sacred Art of Fasting serves as a welcoming introduction to the whys and ways of fasting. This ancient practice has roots in nearly every religion around the world. In different forms in different faiths, people fast as an expression of God... ( 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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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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Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings
by Marcus Borg and Ray Riegert
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Jesus and Buddha were separated by five hundred years, three thousand miles, and two drastically different cultures. Yet this trade paper edition of the highly acclaimed hardback juxtaposes passages from the New Testament and ancient Buddhist scriptures... ( read more)
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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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Infidels
by Andrew Wheatcroft
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Meticulously researched history of the antipathy between two major faiths, from the early middle ages up to the current, modern multi-media war of words. "Gripping, often blood-curdling history, recounted with tremendous flair" John Adamson, "Sunday... ( 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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History of Religious Ideas Volume 2
by Mircea Eliade
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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)
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The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
by Mary Rose Oreilley
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Transcendence can come in many forms. For Mary Rose O'Reilley 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 earthier... ( read more)
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The Divine Library: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the Sacred Texts and Spiritual Literature of the World
by Rufus C Camphausen
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This directory to the primary religious literature of past and present cultures includes references to available editions, translations, and commentaries. ... ( read more)
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Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh: Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization
by Robert Harlen King
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Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh were and are two of the foremost spiritual writers of their times. They met only once--at Gethsemani Abbey on May 26, 1966. "Individually," says Robert King, "they are important, but considered together they may be even... ( read more)
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