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The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
Massumeh Farhad · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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In the early twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire was in political turmoil. Officials moved valuable artworks--including thousands of sumptuous Qur'an (Koran) manuscripts and loose pages dating from the 7th to 17th century--to Istanbul to ensure their safety. Penned by celebrated... |
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Got Religion?: How Churches, Mosques, and Synagogues Can Bring Young People Back
Naomi Schaefer Riley · Templeton Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why are young people dropping out of religious institutions? Can anything be done to reverse the trend? In Got Religion?, Naomi Schaefer Riley examines the reasons for the defection, why we should care, and how some communities are successfully addressing the problem. The traditional... |
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Can We Save the Catholic Church?
Hans Kung · William Collins
Format: Paperback
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The Catholic Church has been nearly destroyed by its resistance to change, censured for its abuses. Pope Francis has promised reform: radical theologian Hans Küng here presents what Catholics have long been yearning for: modern responses to the challenges of a modern world.In 1962 the Second... |
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Preaching in Hitler's Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich
Dean G. Stroud · Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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What did German preachers opposed to Hitler say in their Sunday sermons? When the truth of Christ could cost a pastor his life, what words encouraged and challenged him and his congregation? This book answers those questions.Preaching in Hitler's Shadow begins with a fascinating look... |
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How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying About God and the Bible
Richard Smoley · Tarcher
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how much of Scripture is historically false--yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed the primeval world and that direct us today toward a deep, inner, authentic experience of the truly... |
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Reimagined: 45 Years of Jewish Art
Mark Podwal · Glitterati Inc
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Mark Podwal is today's premiere artist of the Jewish experience, with a prolific portfolio of work lauded by visionaries ranging from Elie Wiesel to Harold Bloom. His paintings and ink-on-paper drawings are not only beautiful but also offer profound and nuanced commentary on Jewish... |
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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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Seven Types of Atheism
John Gray · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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From the provocative author of Straw Dogs comes an incisive, surprising intervention in the political and scientific debate over religion and atheismWhen you explore older atheisms, you will find that some of your firmest convictions -- secular or religious -- are highly questionable. If this... |
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Three Gifts of Therese of Lisieux: A Saint for Our Times
Patrick V Ahern · Image
Pages: 127
Format: Print book
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"Thérèse has been such a presence in my adult life - it is as if I have known her personally; she is as real and alive to me as my lifelong friends... I've identified three gifts that Thérèse has given me, which I would like to offer in this book to everyone seeking to find... |
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
Karen Armstrong · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general... |
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Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America
Ranya Tabari Idliby · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 239
Format: Book
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For many Americans, the words 'American' and 'Muslim' simply do not marry well; for many the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of one American Muslim family -- the story of how, through their lives, their schools, their... |
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Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions
Timothy Keller · Dutton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Encounters With Jesus, New York Times bestselling author and renowned pastor Timothy Keller shows how people were changed when they met Jesus personally—and how we can be changed today through our own encounter with him. What is my purpose in life? What is a good life? Why is there... |
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
ROBERT WRIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human... |
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Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
Paul A Offit · Basic Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio's Amish country - despite the fact that these are all vaccine-preventable diseases. Although America is the most medically advanced place in the world,... |
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