Religious category: 31793 books
Eternity's Sunrise
The Imaginative World of William Blake
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and...
by Charles Lemert
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was a Protestant preacher, an influential religious thinker, and an important moral guide in mid-twentieth-century America. But what does he have to say to us now? In what way does he inform the thinking of political leaders and commentators from Barack Obama and Madeleine...
by John Henry Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
"False ideas may be refuted by argument, but by true ideas alone are they expelled. I will vanquish," Newman promised, "not my accuser, but my judges..."
Of all the spiritual odysseys that dominate the literature of nineteenth-century England, Newman's Apologia Pro Vita...
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF YOGI
BONUS EDITION
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2019
HE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF YOGI
BONUS EDITION
This is an autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (January 5, 1893–March 7, 1952) first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, in a Bengali family.
Autobiography of a Yogi...
Billy Graham
A Parable of American Righteousness
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Marshall Frady's epic biography of Billy Graham, the world’s best-known Christian evangelist and America’s pastor.
With unparalleled access to Billy Graham and his family and associates, Frady presents an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the man, from his childhood upbringing in the...
by Paramhansa Yogananda
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The spiritual journey of the man who introduced yoga to the West, and inspired practitioners from George Harrison to Steve Jobs.
The remarkable life story of Paramhansa Yogananda is the groundbreaking work that introduced millions of Westerners to the practices of meditation and Kriya Yoga. Yogananda...
Bipolar Faith
A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Monica A. Coleman’s great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years. The rope was the violent instrument, but it was mental anguish that killed him. Now, in gripping fashion, Coleman examines...
by Prof. F. Bruce Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation—as exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the Protestant...
by James Martin,SJ
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year Winner of a Christopher Award Winner of a Catholic Press Association Book AwardMeet some surprising friends of God in this warm and wonderful memoirJames Martin has led an entirely modern life: from a lukewarm Catholic childhood, to an education at the...
The Imam's Daughter
The Remarkable True Story of a Young Girl’s Escape from Her Harrowing Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Hannah Shah is an Imam’s daughter. She lived the life of a devout Muslim in a family of Pakistani Muslims in England, but behind the front door, she was a caged butterfly. For many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At sixteen, she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan...
The Witness Wore Red
The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed...
Triumph
Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The author of The New York Times bestseller Escape returns with a moving and inspirational tale of her life after she heroically fled the cult she’d been raised in, her hard-won new identity and happiness, and her determination to win justice for the crimes committed against her family.
In...
The Unlikely Disciple
A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
The hilarious and heartwarming, respectful and thought-provoking memoir of a college student's semester at Liberty University, the "Bible Boot Camp" for young evangelicals, that will inspire believers and nonbelievers alike.
No drinking.
No smoking.
No cursing.
No dancing.
No R-rated...
by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1998
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by biographer William H. Shannon. It tells of the growing...