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  • Interpreting the Sacred

    Ways of Viewing Religion

    by William Paden ...
    William Paden's classic exploration in religious studies, with a new introductionIn the current climate, Interpreting the Sacred provides a fresh, thorough way to consider and compare various religious belief systems. Paden puts forth the idea that our understanding of religion influences our understanding of ourselves and our world. Updated with a new introduction, this book is for anyone who ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Faith Club

    A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding

    by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner ...
    "Welcome to the Faith Club. We're three mothers from three faiths—Islam, Christianity, and Judaism—who got together to write a picture book for our children that would highlight the connections between our religions. But no sooner had we started talking about our beliefs and how to explain them to our children than our differences led to misunderstandings. Our project nearly fell apart."After ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Judaism and Christianity:

    A Contrast

    by Rabbi Stuart Federow ...
    Many people focus on the similarities between Judaism and Christianity, but the religions are quite differentand its not just because one accepts Jesus as the messiah and the other does not.The rise of Christians calling themselves messianic Jews, the successes of Christian missionaries, Jews ingratiating themselves to Evangelical Christians because of their support for the State of Israel, the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Message and the Book

    Sacred Texts of the World's Religions

    by John Bowker, Atlantic Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd. ...
    Grand in its sweep, this survey of the sacred writings of the major religions of the world offers a thoughtful introduction to the ideas and beliefs upon which great faiths are built. Under the expert guidance of John Bowker, a religious scholar and author of international stature, readers explore the key texts of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Confucian, Daoist, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Resurrected?

    An Atheist and Theist Dialogue

    by Gary R. Habermas, Antony G. N. Flew ...
    The Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is the central tenet of the Christian faith. St. Paul put it succinctly: if Christ did not rise from the dead, our faith is in vain. This remarkable dialogue between the leading Christian scholar of the Resurrection and the world's best-known philosophical atheist resulted from a three-hour discussion on a popular religious television talk show, moderated by ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Religious Worlds

    The Comparative Study of Religion

    by William E. Paden ...
    From Gods, to ritual observance to the language of myth and the distinction between the sacred and the profane, Religious Worlds explores the structures common to all spiritual traditions. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Perpetua

    The Third Testament For The Third Millennium

    by Kevin Carey ...
    Series Book 1 - The Third Testament for the Third Millennium
    Perpetua, a 19 year old girl from South London, says that she is God. She gathers a motley collection of followers and begins her travels, performing miracles and spreading her gospel of unconditional love along the way.Her message provokes a strong and ultimately lethal reaction from Christianity's warring factions, politicians and journalists bent on profit instead of the truth. Her story is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Race

    A Theological Account

    by J. Kameron Carter ...
    In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • The Undoing; Islam By Its Own Words

    by Abe Abel, Sol Solomon ...
    A taster of some of the content in our books "Islam Undone" and "Islamic Apocalypse". It uncovers the roots of Islamism, terror & jihad, sex-slavery, FGM & the mistreatment of women, anti-Semitism, xenophobia & genocides, in the Koran and other Islamic holy books. Proves with ease that Islam's Allah is not the same of the Jewish/Christian God Almighty, showing that the Koran does not replace, ... Read more

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  • Two Faiths, One Covenant?

    Jewish and Christian Identity in the Presence of the Other

    by Dianne Bergant, Mary C. Boys, Yehuda Gellman, Edward Kessler, Steven J. McMichael, David Novak, Michael A. Signer, John T. Pawlikowski, Lenn E. Goodman0 ...
    Series series The Bernardin Center Series
    Judaism and Christianity are religions bound together by their claims to the same biblical covenant initiated by God with Abraham and his descendants. Yet, despite the inseparable connection between the election of Israel and that of the church, between the 'old' and the 'new' covenant, this shared spiritual patrimony has been the source of a type of violent sibling rivalry competing for the same ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Evil That Men Do

    Faith, Injustice and the Church

    by Marcus Paul ...
    At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being committed globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adherents, Marcus Paul makes an unflinching and counter-cultural examination of some of the worst periods in the Church's history.Were the crusades entirely inexcusable religious wars? Was the Inquisition the bloody and sadistic "Black Legend" of popular ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Cosmic Common Good

    Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics

    by Daniel P. Scheid ...
    As ecological degradation continues to threaten permanent and dramatic changes for life on our planet, the question of how we can protect our imperiled Earth has become more pressing than ever before. In this book, Daniel Scheid draws on Catholic social thought to construct what he calls the "cosmic common good," a new norm for interreligious ecological ethics. This ethical vision sees humans as ... Read more

    $50.39 USD