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The Return of Odin: The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination
Richard Rudgley · Inner Traditions
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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A controversial examination of the influence and presence of the Norse god Odin in contemporary history and culture * Documents Odin's role in the rise of Nazi Germany, the 1960s counterculture revolution, nationalist and ecological political movements, and the occult revival * Examines... |
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The "Dead Sea Scrolls": A Biography
John J. Collins · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time... |
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Archaeology of the Bible: The Greatest Discoveries From Genesis to the Roman Era
Jean-Pierre Isbouts · National Geographic Partners
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From ancient holy sites, to buried relics and treasures, National Geographic uncovers the history and the archaeological discoveries from Scripture and the biblical world. Richly illustrated and written from an objective and nondenominational perspective, author Jean-Pierre Isbouts uses... |
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Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life
R Laurence Moore · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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If the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects religious liberty, why doesn't it protect atheists?God occupies our nation's consciousness, even defining to many what it means to be American. Nonbelievers have often had second-class legal status and have had to fight for their... |
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What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters
GARRY WILLS · Viking
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient textGarry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks... |
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Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age
James Carroll · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern times Critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central one: What can we believe... |
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Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
MICHAEL SHERMER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael ShermerIn his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific... |
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Mecca: The Sacred City
Ziauddin Sardar · Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray, and the site of pilgrimage that annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet the significance of Mecca is more than purely religious.... |
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The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times
James Kugel · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A world-renowned scholar brings a lifetime of study to reveal how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the Biblical Era made us who we are today Why does the Bible depict a world in which humans, with surprising regularity, encounter the divine - wrestling an angel, addressing... |
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The Gods of Olympus: A History
Barbara Graziosi · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 290
Format: Print book
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An elegant and entertaining account of the transformations of the Greek gods across the ages, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the present dayThe gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just... |
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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
Ellen Wayland-Smith · Picador
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.In... |
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE · Harper Wave
Pages: 451
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration... |
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Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things
Ken Wytsma · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The ONLY way to find abundant life and happiness is to give your life away. If God designed us to experience true happiness and abundant life, why do so many Christians feel dissatisfied and purposeless? We try to make our lives better by chasing our own dreams, but that only makes... |
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