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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Da Capo Press: November 2007

Seller ID: 124669

ISBN: 0306816083

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Christopher Hitchens's personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influen...
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Religion War

By: Adams, Scott

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 343073

ISBN: 0740747886

Binding: Hardcover

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In this frenetically paced sequel to Adams' best-selling "thought experiment," God's Debris, the smartest man in the world is on a mission to stop a cataclysmic war between Christian and Muslim forces and save civilization. The brilliantly crafted, thought-provoking fable raises questions about the nature of reality and just where our delusions are taking us.

With publication of The Religion War, millions of long-time fans of Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoons and business bestsellers will have to admit that the literary world is a better place with Adams on the loose spre...
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A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: August 1994

Seller ID: 46707

ISBN: 0345384563

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other? In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present.

The epic story begins with the Jews' gradual transformation of pagan idol worship in Babylon into true monotheism--a concept previously unknown in the world. Christiani...
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History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 61751

ISBN: 0679426000

Binding: Hardcover

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Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong (1997-04-29)

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: April 1997

Seller ID: 110429

ISBN: 0345391683

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"SPLENDID . . . Eminently sane and patient . . . Essential reading for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike."
--The Washington Post

Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city whose very sacredness has engendered terrible tragedy. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly praised A History of God, traces the history of how Jews, Christians, and Muslims have all laid claim to Jerusalem as their holy place, and how three radically different concepts of holin...
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor: February 2005

Seller ID: 123991

ISBN: 0385721277

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey. 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 outside world and her expiring faith proved to be excruciating. Her deep solitude and a terrifying illness-diagnosed only years later as epilepsy--marked her forever as an outsider. In her own mind she was a complete...
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Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 261138

ISBN: 0385721404

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.

In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name of piety. And, as Armstrong demonstrates in this fascinating book, their legacy of religious violence continues today i...
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The Case for God

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Knopf: September 2009

Seller ID: 278858

ISBN: 0307269183

Binding: Hardcover

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A nuanced exploration of the part religion plays in human life, past and present, from one of the foremost commentators on religion at work today.
Moving from the Paleolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it has called God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spirituality, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want...
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In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 283151

ISBN: 0679450890

Binding: Hardcover

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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Knopf: March 2004

Seller ID: 415283

ISBN: 0375413189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before--hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. She knew almost nothing of the changed world to which she was returning, and she was tormented by panic attacks and inexplicable seizures.
Armstrong's struggle against despair was further fueled by a string of discouragements--failed spirituality, doctorate, and jobs; fruitless dealings with psychiatrists. Finally, in 1976, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, given proper treatment, a...
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Case For God

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $6.00

Publisher: May 2012

Seller ID: 416971

ISBN: 0307389804

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion ...
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Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way

By: Bacovcin, Helen

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 399124

ISBN: 0385468148

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly? Through his journeys, and under the tutelage of a spiritual father, he becomes gradually more open to the promptings of God, and sees joy and plenty wherever he goes. Ultimately, he discovers the different meanings and methods of prayer as he travels to his ultimate destination, Jerusalem.

Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

By: Bellah, Robert

Price: $12.50

Seller ID: 411184

ISBN: 0674061438

Binding: Hardcover

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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 a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution.

How did our early ancestors transcend the quotidian demands of everyday existence to embrace an alternative reality that called into question the very meaning of their daily struggle? Robert Bellah, one of t...
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Religions Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)

By: Big Ideas Simply Explained)

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 372044

ISBN: 1465408436

Binding: Hardcover

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Surveying the world's religions, from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism, and providing succinct yet thought-provoking insight into the philosophy and practices of each, The Religions Book is ideal for anyone seeking to gain a better understanding of the world's religions.

With intriguing artwork, flow charts, and diagrams, complex world religions are made accessible in this comprehensive guide. The Religions Book is also perfect for religion and philosophy students.

Letters and Papers from Prison

By: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Price: $3.00

Publisher: March 2011

Seller ID: 92269

ISBN: 229039

Binding: Unknown

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Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings

By: Borg, Marcus

Price: $7.50

Publisher: October 2014

Seller ID: 82097

ISBN: 1569751218

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Gathers over one hundred examples of Jesus' and Buddha's teachings on matching pages to reveal strikingly similar teachings.
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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

By: Boyer, Pascal

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 386966

ISBN: 0465006965

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Religion Explained shows how this aspect of human consciousness is increasingly admissible to coherent, naturalistic explanation. This brilliant and controversial book gives readers the first scientific explanation for what religious feeling is really about, what it consists of, and where it comes from.
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Spiritual Literacy Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life

By: Brussat, Frederic

Price: $7.00

Publisher: August 2012

Seller ID: 74994

ISBN: 0684815338

Binding: Hardcover

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This rich treasury of inspirational readings answers the universal question: How can I live a spiritual life every day?
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus

By: Cahill, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: February 2014

Seller ID: 57545

ISBN: 0385483724

Binding: Trade Paperback

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From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet.

How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be the central figure in Western Civilization? Did his influence in fact change the world? These are the questions Thomas Cahill addresses in his subtle and engaging investigation into the life and times of Jesus.

Cahill shows us Jesus from his birth to his execution through the eyes of those who knew him and in the context of his time--a time when the Jews were strugg...
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Blessings: Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life

By: Cameron, Julia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2013

Seller ID: 229597

ISBN: 0874779065

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Through her workshops and writings (including her bestseller The Artist's Way), Julia Cameron has inspired millions to pursue their dreams. In the tradition of Heart Steps, Blessings reveals the keys she uses to reconnect herself with the source of her creative spirit. Focusing on gratitude and recognizing the power to change one's surrounding world by changing one's thinking, Cameron explains how she surrenders to the "deeper flow of life rather than willfully forcing artificial solutions."

By acknowledging the beauty, harmony, and synergy of life, readers learn through...
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Category: General Religion & Spirituality