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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 Hand on the Mirror: A True Story of Life Beyond Death
Janis Heaphy Durham · Grand Central Publishing; First Edition / First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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An unbelievably believable story about the afterlife, with documenting photographs from the former publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper. In 2004, Janis Heaphy Durham's husband, Max Besler, died of cancer at age 56. The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, she practiced her faith... |
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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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The Jesuits: A History from Ignatius to the Present
John W. O'Malley S.J. · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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As Pope Francis continues to make his mark on the church, there is increased interest in his Jesuit background—what is the Society of Jesus, how is it different from other religious orders, and how has it shaped the world? In The Jesuits, acclaimed historian John W. O’Malley,... |
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How We Fight: Ethics in War
Helen Frowe · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How We Fight: Ethics in War presents a substantial body of new work by some of the leading philosophers of war. The ten essays cover a range of topics concerned with both jus ad bellum (the morality of going to war) and jus in bello (the morality of fighting in war). Alongside explorations... |
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American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
Hannah Nordhaus · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning journalist and author of The Beekeeper's Lament attempts to uncover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia--whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe - in this spellbinding exploration of myth, family history, and the American West.The dark-eyed... |
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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Mona Eltahawy · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The journalist Mona Eltahawy is no stranger to controversy. Through her articles and actions she has fought for the autonomy, security, and dignity of Muslim women, drawing vocal supporters and detractors. Now, in her first book, Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy has prepared a definitive... |
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The Reason for My Hope: Salvation
Billy Graham · W Group
Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover
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Back cover: What is the most hopeful word in History?For Billy Graham, that word is SALVATION.Salvation from what?From our selfish and self-destructive selves.From the messes we get ourselves into.From the sin that has haunted humanity from the beginning of time and the evil that pulls... |
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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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Living with the Gods: 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs
NEIL MACGREGOR · Knopf
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation--the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society.Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence... |
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Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity
Ronald Rolheiser · Image
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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When one reaches the highest degree of human maturity, one has only one question left: How can I be helpful? - TERESA OF ÁVILA Beloved author Ronald Rolheiser continues his search for an accessible and penetrating Christian spirituality in this highly anticipated follow-up to the contemporary... |
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Qur'an in Conversation
Michael Birkel · Baylor University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Qur'an is God's verbatim speech for most traditional Muslims. Qur'an in Conversation reflects how this sacred text of Islam comes into dialogue with the contemporary world through the voices of the eloquent interpreters gathered in this volume.In Qur'an in Conversation,... |
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Being Hindu: Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World
Hindol Sengupta · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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There are more than one billion Hindus in the world, but for those who don't practice the faith, very little seems to be understood about it. Followers have not only built and sustained the world's largest democracy but have also sustained one of the greatest philosophical streams... |
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