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The Witch's Mirror: The Craft, Lore & Magick of the Looking Glass

Mickie Mueller · Llewellyn Worldwide
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

Discover the fascinating history, tradition, and modern uses of the witch's mirror. From choosing and making the perfect mirror to using it to boost self-esteem and prosperity, this book provides valuable information for witches of all levels. Fun and easy to use, The Witch's Mirror...
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The Bible's Cutting Room Floor: The Holy Scriptures Missing From Your Bible

Joel M. Hoffman · Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The Bible you usually read is not the complete story. Some holy writings were left out for political or theological reasons, others simply because of the physical restrictions of ancient bookmaking technology. At times, the compilers of the Bible skipped information that they assumed everyone...
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God's Message to the World:: You've Got Me All Wrong

Neale Donald Walsch · Rainbow Ridge Books
Format: Print book

Is it possible that everything we think we know about God, and what God wants, is wrong?Could humanity s ideas about all this be the greatest inaccuracies . . . ever? Would it matter if they were? The author of the multi-million-selling Conversations with God series places the question...
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

Kevin M. Kruse · Basic Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of "Christian America" is an invention - and a relatively recent one at that.As Kruse argues, the belief that America...
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The Bible's Cutting Room Floor: The Holy Scriptures Missing From Your Bible

Joel M. Hoffman · Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition
Format: Kindle Edition

Offers an examination of the texts that did not make it into the canonical bible, as well as the diverse reasons for their omission and why some of them are relevant to the lives of modern people.
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Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

David Limbaugh · Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller!In Jesus on Trial, David Limbaugh applies his lifetime of legal experience to a unique new undertaking: making a case for the gospels as hard evidence of the life and work of Jesus Christ. Limbaugh, a practicing attorney and former professor of law, approaches...
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The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text

Michael David Coogan · Yale University Press, 2014.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

In this lively and provocative book, Michael Coogan guides readers into the ancient past to examine the iconic Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue. How, among all the laws reportedly given on Mount Sinai, did the Ten Commandments become the Ten Commandments? When did that happen?...
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Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart: Rewriting the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century

Lex Bayer · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 178
Format: Hardcover

Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart asks an essential question for the 45 million Americans who self-identify as nonreligious: "So, you don't believe in God; now what?" This question is increasingly important, as one-third of young adults under the age of thirty consider themselves...
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Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball

Onaje X O Woodbine · Columbia University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

J-Rod moves like a small battle tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem." Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring...
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Redeeming the Kamasutra

Wendy Doniger · Oxford University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken...
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The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide

Michael E Hobart · Harvard University Press
Pages: 520
Format: Hardcover

In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin...
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