Religious category: 31793 books
Unorthodox
The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.
As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism,...
The Orientalist
Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.
Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...
Hiding Out
A Memoir of Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
“[Hiding Out] brims with drunkenness, sexuality and urgency...a “can’t-put-down” read." — Washington Post
Actress and playwright Tina Alexis Allen’s audacious memoir unravels her privileged suburban Catholic upbringing that was shaped by her formidable father—a man whose...
The Pontiff in Winter
Triumph and Conflict in the Reign of John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Over more than a quarter of a century, John Paul II has firmly set his stamp on the billion-member strong Catholic Church for future generations and he has become one of the most influential political figures in the world. His key role in the downfall of communism in Europe, as well as his apologies...
Jezebel
The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
There is no woman with a worse reputation than Jezebel, the ancient queen who corrupted a nation and met one of the most gruesome fates in the Bible. Her name alone speaks of sexual decadence and promiscuity. But what if this version of her story, handed down to us through the ages, is merely the...
Augustine
A New Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Saint Augustine -- the celebrated theologian who served as Bishop of Hippo from 396 C.E. until his death in 430 C.E. -- is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the Western world. His autobiography, Confessions, remains among the most important religious writings in the Christian...
God's Perfect Child
Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
From a former Christian Scientist, the first unvarnished account of one of America's most controversial and little-understood religious movements.
Millions of americans-from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman-have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist....
by Chris Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This biography of St Francis views him as an enigma. By all accounts he was a simple man with a complex character. Francis was born into a family life of wealth and privilege, yet he chose a life of extreme poverty and simplicity. He walked away from a promising career in his father’s successful...
by Eliyahu Stern
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Elijah ben Solomon, the "Genius of Vilna,” was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence.
While the experience of Jews in modernity has often been described as a process...
The Prisoner and the Kings
How One Man Changed the Course of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
The Prisoner and the Kings is a riveting historical account of a prisoner in a Turkish penal colony and the letters he sent to religious and secular leaders that changed the world. Between 1867 and 1873 a solitary prisoner in a Turkish penal colony wrote a series of letters to the kings and emperors...
by Scott Terry
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth: How a Gay Child Was Saved from Religion offers an illuminating glimpse into a child’s sequestered world of abuse, homophobia, and religious extremism. Scott Terry’s memoir is a compelling, poignant and occasionally humorous look into the Jehovah’s Witness...
Hillel
If Not Now, When?
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
“What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor. That is the whole Torah, all the rest is commentary. Now, go and study.”
This is the most famous teaching of Hillel, one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era. What makes it so extraordinary...
Fatal Discord
Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history—Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther—whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of philosophical and religious thought.
Erasmus...
by Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two...