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Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
James Carroll · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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James Carrolls urgent masterly Jerusalem Jerusalem uncovers the ways in which the ancient city became a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike anywhere else on earth That fervor animates American history as much as it does the Middle East in the present as deeply as in the past... |
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Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites, and Rituals
Nick Redfern · Visible Ink Pr
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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Claims and counter-claims. Accusations and allegations. NSA spying and suppressed evidence. Cover-ups and threats. Documented connections and intrigue. Suggestions of a New World Order. Are we to believe the coincidences are mere chance? Might the paranoid be on to something? Who really... |
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The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America
Joseph Berger · Harper Perennial; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to astonishing proportions, veteran New York Times journalist Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles—and the social and political... |
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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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Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness
Mark Nepo · Sounds True
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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In the midst of our most trying circumstances lives a miraculous gift-a healing process that shapes our journey of becoming our better, more wholehearted selves. With Inside the Miracle, bestselling author Mark Nepo presents his latest book, offering a collection of poems, reflections,... |
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God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath
Malcolm Lambert · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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With ramifications on geopolitics today, a vivid chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same... |
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