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The Soul of the World
Roger Scruton · Princeton University Press |
In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood... |
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris · Simon & Schuster |
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Waking Up is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty... |
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Our Great Big American God: A Short History of Our Ever-Growing Deity
Matthew Paul Turner · Jericho Books |
Americans love God. We stamp God on our money, our bumper stickers, and our bodies. With a church on nearly every street, it's hard to deny our country's deep connection with the divine. Yet culture critic Matthew Paul Turner says that God didn't just change America-America... |
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Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State
Robert Wuthnow · Princeton University Press |
Tracing the intersection of religion, race, and power in Texas from Reconstruction through the rise of the Religious Right and the failed presidential bid of Governor Rick Perry, Rough Country illuminates American history since the Civil War in new ways, demonstrating that Texas's... |
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The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America
Joseph Berger · Harper Perennial; Original edition |
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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The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America
Joseph Berger · Harper Perennial; Original edition |
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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How the Bible Became Holy
Michael L Satlow · Yale University Press |
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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