Religious category: 31793 books
A People of Hope
Archbishop Timothy Dolan in Conversation with John L. Allen Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
One of the world's most respected religion journalists profiles New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan, one of the country's—and possibly the world’s—most important Catholic leaders through lengthy exclusive interviews.
Unique among the current leadership of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Dolan...
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
"A masterpiece of women’s wisdom."—Christiane Northrup, M.D.
"The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story."—Publishers Weekly
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of...
Darling
A Spiritual Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
An award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9/11
Hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing...
Raising the Ruins
The fight to revive the legacy of Herbert W. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Herbert W. Armstrong was the world's leading televangelist and one of the most prominent religious leaders of the 20th century, watched, read and followed by millions worldwide. But his legacy of Bible-based humanitarianism came under attack after he died. The cabal of leaders who took control of...
Junipero Serra
California's Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A portrait of the priest and colonialist who is one of the most important figures in California's history
In the 1770s, just as Britain's American subjects were freeing themselves from the burdens of colonial rule, Spaniards moved up the California coast to build frontier outposts of empire...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
*Includes historic artwork depicting St. Francis and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a Table of ContentsA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors Catholic...
Memories of Muhammad
Why the Prophet Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters, leading Islamic scholar Omid Safi presents a portrait of Muhammad that reveals his centrality in the devotions of modern Muslims around the world. This religious biography offers new insights into Islam, covering such hot button issues such as the...
Sister Aimee
The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The true story of America’s first superstar evangelist that “fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism” (The New York Times Book Review).
Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to “miracle woman”—the...
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Mother of the Civilization of Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless...
Fields of Grace
Faith, Friendship, and the Day I Nearly Lost Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In this remarkable tale of hope and survival, Hannah Luce tells how, as the sole survivor of a terrible plane crash, she came to grips with her faith: “a calamitous, fascinating memoir, written with surprising spiritual sophistication” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
On May 11, 2012,...
Mary Magdalene
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a magnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance in Christianity.
Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has been both revered and reviled, a woman...
by Rebecca Dana
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
“For a generation of women who grew up watching Sex and the City, Manhattan is the Promised Land—or as Rebecca Dana puts it in her hilarious, self-deprecating new memoir, it’s ‘my Jerusalem—the shining city off in the distance, the only place to go’…[An] insightful tale of two fish out...
by John B. Firth
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Constantine the Great (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus) lived from 272 337 A.D. Also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine, he was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 and is perhaps best known for being the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He and co-Emperor Licinius...
by Steinsaltz, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
When Menachem Mendel Schneerson became the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad-Lubavitch consisted of a small group of Chasidim recovering from near annihilation in the Holocaust. During his forty years of leadership, Rabbi Schneerson transformed Chabad into a global movement marked by extensive outreach...