Religious category: 31793 books
And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy
Stories From the Byways of American Women and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A thoughtful, complex spiritual quest and narrative revisionist history
Written from a female perspective, contextualized within a feminist history of American religious traditions: And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy is an exploration of the American religious experience as reformed and revised...
by Allameh Muhammad Heydari
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
This book tries to answer some serious questions and respond to relative doubts concerning faiths and belief in God. It is recommended for those suffering from unacceptable interactions with religious people and those who would like to be more with the true nature of religion. It is also discusses...
In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx
Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This absorbing and insightful biography illuminates the life of the controversial champion of Social Gospel in early-20th-century America.
Radical religious and political leader Harry F. Ward started life quietly enough in a family of Methodist shopkeepers and butchers in London. But his relentless...
On the Cantatas of J.S. Bach: Trinity I-VII
The Bach Cantatas, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Bach the composer, like many of us today, contends with fundamental human concerns such as self-worth, the courage of trust, the acceptance of death, satisfaction with life, the hope found in joy, suffering amidst the essential beauty of the world, the misery of loss, and the majesty of redemption.
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The Eyes of an Atheist
A Collection of Responses to Common Theistic Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Religious people have been known to push their beliefs onto others; in fact several religions require it. This book utilizes reason, logic, some psychology, and the experiences of someone who has been in several hundred religious debates with believers, mainly those of the Judeo-Christian faiths....
by Jacob Needleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
In his most deeply personal work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today?s clamorous debates over the existence of God, illuminating an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.
I n this new book, philosopher Jacob Needleman? whose...
"Fire From the Midst of You"
A Religious Life of John Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2002
John Brown is usually remembered as a terrorist whose unbridled hatred of slavery drove him to the ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. Tried and executed for seizing the arsenal and attempting to spur a liberation movement among the slaves, Brown was the ultimate cause celebre for...
Girl Meets God
On the Path to a Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2002
“A passionate and thoroughly engaging account of a continuing spiritual journey within two profoundly different faiths” (The New York Times Book Review).
The child of a Reform Jewish father and a lapsed Southern Baptist mother, Lauren Winner eventually chose to become an Orthodox Jew—but...
Healing Spiritual Wounds
Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
An effective plan to help those suffering from wounds inflicted by the church find spiritual healing and a renewed sense of faith.
Raised as a conservative Christian, minister and author Carol Howard Merritt discovered that the traditional institutions she grew up in inflicted great pain and...
by Steven Bigham
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This book is a collection of studies on the general theme of Orthodox icons. 1) As the title of the book indicates, the first article deals with the similarity between religious images of the Romanesque period (900-1200) in Western Europe and Orthodox icons. As the difference between icons and later...
by Gary Gutting
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Through interviews with twelve distinguished philosophers—including atheists, agnostics, and believers—Talking God works toward a philosophical understanding and evaluation of religion. Along the way, Gary Gutting and his interviewees challenge many common assumptions about religious beliefs.
As...
by Wayne Dunaway
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Jesus, forgiveness, encouragement, suffering, faith, and growth. These are the subjects covered in this book, and when you start reading you will be hooked. It is a rhyme every time and a book like this is hard to find. There are seventy poems teaching things to know, so that we can rejoice and continue...
Falwell Inc.
Inside a Religious, Political, Educational, and Business Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Spiritual Street Fighter. Radical Educator. Christian Entrepreneur.
The late Reverend Jerry Falwell was a controversial and divisive religious and political figure whose legacy will long outlive him. Falwell Inc. is the first close examination of how he built his conservative empire, from the...
Al-Ghazali, Averroes and the Interpretation of the Qur'an
Common Sense and Philosophy in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book examines the contrasting interpretations of Islam and the Qur’an by Averroes and Al-Ghazali, as a way of helping us untangle current impasses affecting each Abrahamic faith. This has traditionally been portrayed as a battle between philosophy and theology, but the book shows that Averroes...