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  • Tradition and Modernity

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Community of Believers

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    The Community of Believers offers the proceedings of the 2013 Building Bridges seminar, a dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars under the stewardship of Georgetown University.These essays consider such themes as the Church as mystical body of Christ versus the Church as proclamation; the roots and uses of the term ummah and its development over time; Christian desires for ... Read more

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  • Prayer

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural texts, and personal reflections featuring leading scholars analyzing the meaning and function of prayer within their traditions. Drawn from the 2011 Building Bridges seminar in Doha, Qatar, the essays in this volume explore the devotional practices of each tradition and how these practices are taught and learned. ... Read more

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  • God's Creativity and Human Action

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    A record of the 2015 Building Bridges Seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, this collection of essays explores the nature of divine and human agency through themes of creation’s goal, humankind’s dignity and task, and notions of sovereignty. Part I sets the context for the book with “Human Action within Divine Creation: A Muslim Perspective” by Mohsen Kadivar of Duke University and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Evolution of God

    by Robert Wright ...
    In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure ... Read more

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  • God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...

    God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us

    The author of The Gospel of Inclusion continues to rouse organized religion as he raises controversial issues and provides enlightening answers to the deepest questions about God and faith.What is God? Where is God? Who is the one true God? Questions such as these have driven a thousand human struggles, through war, terrorism, and oppression. Humanity has responded by branching off into multiple ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sacred Paths of the West

    This text combines study of the dynamic historical development of each religious tradition with a comparative thematic structure. Students are encouraged to discover and explore the nature of religious experience by comparing basic themes and issues common to all religions, finding connections with their own personal experiences. By sensitively introducing descriptive material within a comparative ... Read more

    $160.00 USD

  • Islam in the Modern World

    Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

    The foremost U.S. authority on Islam and, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses today’s hot button issues—including holy wars, women’s rights, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the future of Moslems in the Middle East—in this groundbreaking discussion of the fastest-growing religion in the world.One of the great scholars in the modern Islamic intellectual tradition, and the acclaimed author of books ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    Based on the Book by Karen Armstrong

    by Worth Books ...
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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of A History of God tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Karen Armstrong's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of A History of God by Karen Armstrong includes:Historical contextChapter-by ... Read more

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  • Life After Death

    A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion

    by Alan Segal ...
    A magisterial work of social history, Life After Death illuminates the many different ways ancient civilizations grappled with the question of what exactly happens to us after we die.In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Alan F. Segal weaves together biblical and literary scholarship, sociology, history, and philosophy. A renowned scholar, Segal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Grand Central Question

    Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews

    All religions and worldviews seek to answer the fundamental questions of human existence: Why am I here? What does it mean to be human? Why is there evil in the world and how do we deal with it? But not every worldview places equal emphasis on each issue. The main worldviews each tend to stress a different central question.Secular humanism focuses on: What is the inherent value of human beings ... Read more

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  • God: A User's Guide

    - Jesus spent decades in India.- Ethiopians, not Jews, are the real chosen people.- A religion in Iran predicted the Virgin Birth, hundreds of years before Christ.- Abraham was an Iraqi.- Lenin was a Saint.- Worms have souls.- There’s no such thing as the Holy Trinity.- All religions are the same.These are not conspiracy theories – but the genuine beliefs of the some of the world’s major religions ... Read more

    $6.99 USD