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by Muhammad
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The Quran (literally meaning "the recitation"; also romanized Qurʾan or Koran) is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Arabic: الله, Allah). Its scriptural status among a world-spanning religious community, and its major place within...
Chicano While Mormon
Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith. The narrative follows him as an immigrant boy in San Antonio, Texas, who finds religion, goes to segregated schools, participates in the first major school boycott of the...
Visions of a Better World
Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
In 1935, at the height of his powers, Howard Thurman, one of the most influential African American religious thinkers of the twentieth century, took a pivotal trip to India that would forever change him—and that would ultimately shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United States.
When...
The Mirror of God
Christian Faith as Spiritual Practice--Lessons from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
What are the benefits of being a spiritual person? This is the question that James Jones explores in his newest book, The Mirror of God. Jones contends that true religious belief is not a passive process and that one must work hard towards believing in God through acts such as prayer, meditation and...
by Michael J. Findley
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
John and Ann Winthrop just need a place where their family can be free of religious persecution. The New Hope wilderness settlement starts to look like a vain hope as winter approaches, their supplies run low, and a group of suits arrive in a helicopter.
Jon Edwards tries to moderate the demands...
by Brian Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Book2 of The Stolen Gospels
Long ago, the ancient gospels of Jesus’s female apostles were stolen by powerful churchmen and relegated to the rubbish heaps of history. But those apostles have been reborn as female children, and are dictating new gospels that will be incorporated into a radical...
by Brian Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Lori Vale, a rebellious teenager, is thrust into the middle of a violent religious conflict when her mother is murdered, and the girl is taken to a heavily guarded fortress in an ancient Greek monastery. There, a group of radical women is creating an earthshaking religious text, the Holy Women’s...
Broken Sight
The Face of the Deep, #2.5
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
**Be careful what you fight for... **
In a realm where religious freedom has just been restored, Commander Brian Gaudette feels more isolated than before. His wife left with their daughter. His crew is bickering. Even his God seems distant.
A distress call from a remote planet offers...
And GOD saw it all was very good
Catholic LGBT People in Europe Telling Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
“The stories of the LGBT Catholics in this book will make a difference in your life” assures Sister Jeannine Gramick in her prologue. Here you will find 34 personal stories divided into the six themes (Family; Is Catholicism home; A religious life?; A long journey; Significant events; Working...
Anatheism
Returning to God After God
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split...
Birmingham's Rabbi
Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
American Jewish history has been criticized for its parochial nature because it has consisted largely of chronicles of American Jewish life and has often failed to explore the relationship between Jews and other ethnic groups in America.
Rabbi Morris Newfield led Temple Emanu-El...
Religion and Rationality
Essays on Reason, God and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including...
Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture
Volume III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. The cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' 18th century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such religious...