Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Pilgrimage and England's Cathedrals

    Past, Present, and Future

    Edited by Dee Dyas, John Jenkins ...
    Series series History (R0)
    "A brilliant breakthrough in pilgrimage studies. An exemplary study that shows how to bring together different academic and institutional interests in a common cause – understanding the relationship between pilgrimage and English cathedrals over time. A publication that will, hopefully, inspire similar collaborative studies around the globe."- John Eade, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • The Dynamics of Pilgrimage

    Christianity, Holy Places, and Sensory Experience

    by Dee Dyas ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
    This book offers a systematic, chronological analysis of the role played by the human senses in experiencing pilgrimage and sacred places, past and present. It thus addresses two major gaps in the existing literature, by providing a broad historical narrative against which patterns of continuity and change can be more meaningfully discussed, and focusing on the central, but curiously neglected, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Bible in Western Culture

    The Student's Guide

    The influence of the Bible in Western culture is immeasurable, but these days few of us know much about it. Presenting concise and accessible introductions to the Bible's most important characters, stories and themes, this text encourages better understanding, study and analysis of the Christian element in Western culture.With no prior biblical knowledge required, this clearly presented volume ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • What is the Point of Being a Christian?

    WINNER OF THE MICHAEL RAMSEY PRIZE FOR THE BEST IN THEOLOGICAL WRITINGWinner of the Michael Ramsey prize for the best in theological writing. Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe is in demand the world over with Bishops, priests, lay people and above all young people. This book is his response.What is the Point of being a Christian? One is pointed to God, who is the point of everything. If one thinks of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Signs of the Times: Seven Paths of Hope for a Troubled World

    by Jean Vanier ...
    Fifty years ago, Jean Vanier founded L’Arche, a new kind of Christian community which would welcome people with severe intellectual difficulties in a shared life of freedom and mutual respect. A year later, the Second Vatican Council released its vision of a Church which would put society’s weakest and most marginalised members at its heart. Since then, L’Arche has become a world-renowned symbol ... Read more

    $8.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living with Contradiction

    An Introduction to Benedictine Spirituality

    A modern interpretation the Rule of St. Benedict to infuse Christian spirituality to all aspects of our daily livesThese simple and inviting reflections on the Rule of St. Benedict take as their starting point our search for wholeness in a world that is fragmented and increasingly polarized. Many people today struggle to balance the demands of professional and personal lives, and find little ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catholicism

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Despite a long history of external threats and internal strife, the Roman Catholic Church remains a vast and influential presence in our modern world. But what were its origins, and how has it changed and adapted over the centuries? After Pope Benedict XVI dramatically resigned in early 2013 (the first Pope to resign since the fifteenth century), and Pope Francis was elected, many wondered what ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The "Book of Common Prayer"

    A Biography

    by Alan Jacobs ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . ." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated English culture and letters. Here Alan Jacobs tells ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Blessed Virgin Mary in England: Vol. Ii

    A Mary-Catechism with Pilgrimage to Her Holy Shrines

    "O Blessed Confidence, O Safe Refuge, Mother of God and Our Mother!"St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033?1109), Doctor of the Church"What is not generally known and only infrequently studied is the role of Our Lady over the centuries as a catechist: teacher of the faith, in a very real sense, primary teacher because she is Mother of God and Mother of the Church and faithful If any one factor might be ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Our Church

    A Personal History of the Church of England

    by Roger Scruton ...
    For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Naked Hermit

    A Journey to the Heart of Celtic Britain

    Descending into the darkness of a long-abandoned hermit's cave, wading naked into an icy sea to pray, spending the night on a sacred mountain, Nick Mayhew-Smith recounts an extraordinary one-man mission to revive the ancient devotions of Britain's most enigmatic holy places.Based on ground-breaking research into the transition from Paganism to Christianity, this book invites the reader on a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Oxford Guide to The Book of Common Prayer

    A Worldwide Survey

    The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer is the first comprehensive guide to the history and usage of the original Book of Common Prayer and its variations. Expert contributors from around the world and from every major denomination offer an unparalleled view of The Book of Common Prayer and its influence. The Oxford Guide to Common Prayer is more than simply a history: it describes how ... Read more

    $21.89 USD