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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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Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah
Roger Bennett · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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Announcing a smart, daring, original new take on the Torah. Imagine: 54 leading young Jewish writers, artists, photographers, screenwriters, architects, actors, musicians, and graphic artists grappling with the first five books of the Bible and giving new meaning to the 54 Torah portions... |
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Muslims and the Making of America
Amir Hussain · Baylor University Press
Pages: 150
Format: Print book
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"There has never been an America without Muslims" -- so begins Amir Hussain, one of the most important scholars and teachers of Islam in America. Hussain, who is himself an American Muslim, contends that Muslims played an essential role in the creation and cultivation of the United... |
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Lawrence Wright · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current... |
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The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Ben Shapiro · Broadside Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech,... |
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The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic
John Shelby Spong · HarperOne; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and popular proponent of a modern, scholarly and authentic Christianity, argues that this last gospel to be written was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus when in fact it is a literary,... |
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The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd: Finding Christ on the Buddha's Path
Addison Hodges Hart · Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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In the twelfth century, the Chinese Zen master Kakuan Shien produced the pictures, poems, and commentaries we know as the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures. They trace a universally recognizable path of contemplative spirituality, using the metaphor of a young ox-herder looking for his lost ox.According... |
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Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey into the Syrian Jihad
ASNE SEIERSTAD · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of two sisters' journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them homeTwo Sisters, by the international bestselling author Ã…sne Seierstad, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara, Somali immigrants raising a family... |
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Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works
James K. A. Smith · Baker Academic
Format: Paperback
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How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed... |
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Why We Need Religion
Stephen T Asma · Oxford University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen... |
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A History of Religion in 51/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses
S Brent Plate · Beacon Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A leading scholar explores the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion. Humans are needy. We need things: objects, keepsakes, stuff, tokens, knickknacks, bits and pieces, junk, and treasure. We carry special objects in our pockets and purses, and place... |
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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 Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever
Adam Leith Gollner · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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What have we not done to live forever? Adam Leith Gollner, the critically acclaimed author of The Fruit Hunters, weaves together religion, science, and mythology in a gripping exploration of the most universal of human obsessions immortality. Raised without religion, Adam Leith Gollner... |
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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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