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Being Hindu: Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World
Hindol Sengupta - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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Antifundamentalism in Modern America
David Harrington Watt - Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover
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David Harrington Watt's Antifundamentalism in Modern America gives us a pathbreaking account of the role that the fear of fundamentalism has played -- and continues to play -- in American culture. Fundamentalism has never been a neutral category of analysis, and Watt scrutinizes the various... |
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Recovery from Trauma, Addiction, or Both: Strategies for Finding Your Best Self
LISA M NAJAVITS - The Guilford Press
Format: Hardcover
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Trauma and addiction are two of the most common and difficult issues that people face--but it truly is possible to heal. In this motivating book, leading expert Lisa Najavits explains the link between trauma and addiction and presents science-based self-help strategies that you can use no matter... |
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God in the Qur'an
Jack Miles - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those... |
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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism
Jemar Tisby - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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The Color of Compromise takes readers on a historical journey: from America's early colonial days through slavery and the Civil War, covering the tragedy of Jim Crow laws and the victories of the Civil Rights era, to today's Black Lives Matter movement. Author Jemar Tisby reveals the obvious... |
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The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism: Second Edition
Geoffrey W. Dennis - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback
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Presenting lore that can spiritually enrich anyone's life, Jewish or not, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is devoted to the esoteric in Judaism - the fabulous, the miraculous, and the mysterious. In this second edition, Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis has added over thirty new entries and significantly... |
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World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored and Explained
John Bowker - DK; New edition
Format: Hardcover
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World Religions examines the central practices, important figures, and key teachings of many different religions, from Zoroastrianism--the oldest "living" religion--and the great faiths practised today, to newer religions such as Scientology.Each of the major faiths--Christianity,... |
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The Art of Solitude
Stephen Batchelor - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A moving and wide-ranging meditation on being alone with others in this world When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied... |
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