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Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality

LaSara FireFox · Llewellyn Worldwide
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Jailbreaking the Goddess is a revolutionary revisioning of the feminine divine. Where the maiden, mother, crone archetypal system is tied to female biology and physical stages of life, the fivefold model liberates the female experience from the shackles of the reproductive model. In a woman's...
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About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

Michel Foucault · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 140
Format: Print book

In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial feature of his life-long work on the relationship between knowledge, power, and the self....
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My Appeal to the World

Dalai Lama · Tibet House US
Format: Hardcover

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is the foremost spokesperson for the people of the Tibetan Plateau—although his home is in India, in the Himalayan foothills, where he has been forced to live in exile since 1959. As a Buddhist monk, his main focus has been the spiritual life, and the leadership...
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How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Bart D. Ehrman · HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesuss divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
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Occult Paris: The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque

Tobias Churton · Inner Traditions
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

How fin-de-siècle Paris became the locus for the most intense revival of magical practices and doctrines since the Renaissance * Examines the remarkable lives of occult practitioners Joséphin Peladan, Papus, Stanislas de Guaïta, Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Jules Doinel, and others * Reveals...
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Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

Gale · MacMillan
Pages: 820
Format: Hardcover

The second edition of this well-received two-volume study of Islam updates and adds to its predecessor 40 percent new content. It updates and revises most of the original 500 entries and adds new topics to reflect changes in the Muslim world since 2004, from the emergence/re-emergence...
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Finding Heaven here

John C Robinson · O Books
Pages: 186
Format: Print book

Finding out that this world is Heaven is crucial for human survival. Otherwise in the frenzy of dissociation, our shadow games will annihilate the planet. John Robinson's passionate and finely researched book will inspire seekers to open their enlightened eyes and see the world as it is, and start...
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If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life

Alister McGrath · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 241
Format: Hardcover

What if you could ask C. S. Lewis his thoughts on some of the most difficult questions of life? If you could, the result would be Dr. Alister McGrath's provocative and perceptive book, If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis. Best-selling author, prominent academic, and sought-after speaker,...
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The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature

Adam Kirsch · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

An essential exploration of a rich literary tradition from the Bible to modern times, by a "rare literary authority" (New York Times Book Review) . Jews have long embraced their identity as "the people of the book." But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary...
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Layman's Bible Commentary Vol. 6: Isaiah thru Ezekiel

Dr. Tremper Longman · Barbour Pub Inc
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

<div> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Here s an accessible reference that aids personal Bible study or Sunday school preparation the Layman s Bible Commentary, reference for the everyday Christian, not the scholar!...
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Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

James Carroll · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

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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He Walks Among Us: Encounters with Christ in a Broken World

Richard Stearns · Thomas Nelson
Format: Book

God sees the poor as blessed. Rich and Reneé Stearns show us why. We often separate ourselves from people who are different from us, sometimes even intentionally. This book is a great reminder of all the things we share in common—hopes, dreams, heartaches—and most...
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