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Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
James Boyce · Counterpoint Format: Hardcover
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"Original sin is the Western world's creation story."According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God's grace can they achieve salvation. In this captivating and controversial book, acclaimed historian James Boyce... |
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The Happy Atheist
PZ Myers · Pantheon; 1ST edition Format: Hardcover
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“I’m an atheist swimming in a sea of superstition, surrounded by well-meaning, good people with whom I share a culture and similar concerns, and there’s only one thing I can do. I have to laugh.” —PZ Myers On his popular science blog, Pharyngula,... |
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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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Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age
Katherine Ozment · Harperwave Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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Meet "the Nones" - In this thought-provoking exploration of secular America, celebrated journalist Katherine Ozment takes readers on a quest to understand the trends and ramifications of a nation in flight from organized religion.Studies show that religion makes us happier, healthier... |
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The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
Ian Johnson · Pantheon Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today - its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world's great... |
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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Harpercollins Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors... |
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The Jewish Wedding Now
ANITA DIAMANT · Scribner Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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Newly revised and updated, the definitive guide to planning a Jewish wedding, written by bestselling novelist Anita Diamant - author of The Red Tent and The Boston Girl - and one of the most respected writers of guides to contemporary Jewish life.This complete, easy-to-use guide explains... |
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan · Random House, 2013. Â2013. Pages: 296 Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Good Housekeeping * BOOKLIST * Publishers Weekly * BookishFrom the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held... |
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Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Leah Lax · She Writes PR Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story--beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline... |
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Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea
Faisal Devji · Harvard University Press Format: eBook
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Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India’s Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state. Muslim Zion cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue... |
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A Diary of Private Prayer
Susanna Wright · Scribner; Reissue edition Format: Hardcover
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Editor Susanna Wright offers this updated edition of a Christian devotional classic - invoking the daily prayers and timeless imagery of the original text through modern, accessible language.In this wonderful collection, famed theologian Dr. John Baillie shares personal prayers for people... |
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Talking God: Philosophers on Belief
Gary Gutting · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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"[Some say] Buddhism is not a religion because Buddhists don't believe in a supreme being. This simply ignores the fact that many religions are not theistic in this sense. Chess is a game, despite the fact that it is not played with a ball, after all." -- Jay Garfield, Yale... |
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America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States
Stuart Wexler · Counterpoint LLC Pages: 417 Format: Hardcover
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The conventional narrative concerning religious terrorism inside the United States says that the first salvo occurred in 1993, with the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. This narrative has motivated more than a decade of wars, and re-prioritized America's domestic... |
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The Story of the Jews Volume 2
Simon Schama · Ecco Pages: 768 Format: Hardcover
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In the second of three volumes of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth centurySimon Schama's great project continues and the Jewish... |
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