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Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648
Mark Greengrass · Viking; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable new volume in the critically acclaimed Penguin History of Europe seriesFrom peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of the sixteenth century. Martin Luthers challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs... |
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An Atheist's History of Belief: Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention
Matthew Kneale · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 262
Format: Print book
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What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltering in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits? And why has belief thrived since, shaping thousands of generations of shamans, pharaohs, Aztec priests and Mayan rulers, Jews, Buddhists, Christians, Nazis, and Scientologists?As... |
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The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide
Michael E Hobart · Harvard University Press
Pages: 520
Format: Hardcover
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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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How the Bible Became Holy
Michael L Satlow · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping narrative, Michael Satlow tells the fascinating story of how an ancient collection of obscure Israelite writings became the founding texts of both Judaism and Christianity, considered holy by followers of each faith. Drawing on cutting-edge historical and archeological... |
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Pain: A Novel
Zeruya Shalev · Other Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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A powerful, astute novel that exposes how old passions can return, testing our capacity to make choices about what is most essential in life.
Ten years after she was seriously injured in a terrorist attack, the pain comes back to torment Iris. But that is not all: Eitan, the love... |
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Cilka's Journey: A Novel
Heather Morris · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience.
Her beauty saved her -- and condemned her.
Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau... |
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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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City of God: Faith in the Streets
Sara Miles · Jericho Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Paradise is a garden...but heaven is a city. From the acclaimed author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak comes a powerful new account of venturing beyond the borders of religion into the unpredictable territory of faith. On Ash Wednesday, 2012, Sara Miles and her friends left their church... |
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Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive
T. D. Jakes · FaithWords; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An instant 1 New York Times bestseller for six weeks, Bishop T.D. Jakess smash-hit INSTINCT shows readers how to tap into their God-given intuition to achieve ultimate success. Whether you call it following your heart, a gut feeling, a hunch or intuition, instinct-the inner knowledge bubbling... |
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Faith: Essays from Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists
Victoria Zackheim · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Kindle Edition
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Delve into this thought-provoking collection of personal essays from award-winning and bestselling authors who explore the perennial question: What do I believe?
Whether believer, skeptic, agnostic, atheist, or something other, these twenty-four authors share a fascinating,... |
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Your Legacy: The Greatest Gift
James Dobson · FaithWords
Format: Hardcover
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We live in a culture that seeks to destroy the embryonic faith of our children and usher them into politically correct ideology, godless systems of belief, and gross immorality that would have shocked previous generations. This is what confronts todays Christian parents and many of them... |
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The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God
Peter Watson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 626
Format: Paperback
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014 From one of England's most distinguished intellectual historians comes "an exhilarating ride ... that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of" (The Boston Globe) one of the West's most important intellectual movements:... |
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My Accidental Jihad
Krista Bremer · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer would not have been able to imagine her life today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children with Arabic names in the American South. Nor could she have imagined the prejudice she would encounter or the profound ways her marriage would change... |
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