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The Battle for God
A History of Fundamentalism
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2001
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 978-0-345-39169-8 (0-345-39169-1)
In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen...Read more >
A History of Fundamentalism
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2001
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 978-0-345-39169-8 (0-345-39169-1)
In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen...
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Buddha or Bust
In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them All
Written by Perry Garfinkel
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8218-6 (1-4000-8218-8)
Why does an idea that’s 2,500 years old seem more relevant today than ever before? How can the Buddha’s teachings help us solve many of the world’s problems? Journalist Perry Garfinkel circumnavigated the globe to discover the heart of Buddhism and the reasons for its growing popularity–and ended up discovering himself...Read more >
In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them All
Written by Perry Garfinkel
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8218-6 (1-4000-8218-8)
Why does an idea that’s 2,500 years old seem more relevant today than ever before? How can the Buddha’s teachings help us solve many of the world’s problems? Journalist Perry Garfinkel circumnavigated the globe to discover the heart of Buddhism and the reasons for its growing popularity–and ended up discovering himself...
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Do You Believe?
Conversations on God and Religion
Written by Antonio Monda
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-28058-9 (0-307-28058-6)
Some of the most well-known and well-respected cultural figures of our time enter into intimate and illuminating conversation about their personal beliefs, about belief itself, about religion, and about God.
Antonio Monda is a disarming, rigorous interviewer, asking the most difficult questions (he often begins an interview point blank: “Do you believe...Read more >
Conversations on God and Religion
Written by Antonio Monda
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-307-28058-9 (0-307-28058-6)
Some of the most well-known and well-respected cultural figures of our time enter into intimate and illuminating conversation about their personal beliefs, about belief itself, about religion, and about God.
Antonio Monda is a disarming, rigorous interviewer, asking the most difficult questions (he often begins an interview point blank: “Do you believe...
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The Great Transformation
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-72124-0 (0-385-72124-2)
From one of the world’s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to...Read more >
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-72124-0 (0-385-72124-2)
From one of the world’s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to...
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In Search of Zarathustra
Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet
Written by Paul Kriwaczek
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3142-9 (1-4000-3142-7)
A fascinating journey through time and across Europe and Central Asia, in search of the prophet Zarathustra (a.k.a. Zoroaster)—perhaps the greatest religious lawgiver of the ancient world—and his vast influence.
In Persia more than three thousand years ago, Zarathustra spoke of a single universal god, the battle between good and evil, the...Read more >
Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet
Written by Paul Kriwaczek
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3142-9 (1-4000-3142-7)
A fascinating journey through time and across Europe and Central Asia, in search of the prophet Zarathustra (a.k.a. Zoroaster)—perhaps the greatest religious lawgiver of the ancient world—and his vast influence.
In Persia more than three thousand years ago, Zarathustra spoke of a single universal god, the battle between good and evil, the...
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Islam
A Short History
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6618-3 (0-8129-6618-X)
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing...Read more >
A Short History
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6618-3 (0-8129-6618-X)
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing...
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
Written by Mother Teresa and Brian Kolodiejchuk
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $22.95
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
ISBN: 978-0-385-52037-9 (0-385-52037-9)
This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history.
During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the...Read more >
Written by Mother Teresa and Brian Kolodiejchuk
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $22.95
Publisher: Doubleday Religion
ISBN: 978-0-385-52037-9 (0-385-52037-9)
This historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history.
During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the...
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No god but God
The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Written by Reza Aslan
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7189-7 (0-8129-7189-2)
Though it is the fastest-growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded in ignorance and fear for much of the West. In No God but God, Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed scholar of religions, explains this faith in all its beauty and complexity. Beginning with a vivid account of the social...Read more >
The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Written by Reza Aslan
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7189-7 (0-8129-7189-2)
Though it is the fastest-growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded in ignorance and fear for much of the West. In No God but God, Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed scholar of religions, explains this faith in all its beauty and complexity. Beginning with a vivid account of the social...
Peace Be Upon You
Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation
Written by Zachary Karabell
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7921-6 (1-4000-7921-7)
In a narrative that is at once thoughtful and passionate, hopeful but without illusions, award-winning historian Zachary Karabell reveals the history of peaceful coexistence among Muslims, Christians, and Jews over the course of fourteen centuries until the present-day.
The harsh reality of religious conflict is daily news, and the rising tensions between...Read more >
Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and Cooperation
Written by Zachary Karabell
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7921-6 (1-4000-7921-7)
In a narrative that is at once thoughtful and passionate, hopeful but without illusions, award-winning historian Zachary Karabell reveals the history of peaceful coexistence among Muslims, Christians, and Jews over the course of fourteen centuries until the present-day.
The harsh reality of religious conflict is daily news, and the rising tensions between...
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Spirit and Flesh
Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
Written by James M. Ault, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70238-9 (0-375-70238-5)
In an attempt to understand the growing influence of the Christian Right, sociologist and documentary filmmaker James Ault spent three years inside the world of a Massachusetts fundamentalist church he encountered while studying a variety of new-right groups. He observed—and where possible participated in—the daily lives of the members of a...Read more >
Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
Written by James M. Ault, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-375-70238-9 (0-375-70238-5)
In an attempt to understand the growing influence of the Christian Right, sociologist and documentary filmmaker James Ault spent three years inside the world of a Massachusetts fundamentalist church he encountered while studying a variety of new-right groups. He observed—and where possible participated in—the daily lives of the members of a...
Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
Written by Anne Lamott
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-49609-4 (0-385-49609-5)
Anne Lamott claims to know only two prayers by heart: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of Jesus as "Casper the friendly savior" and...Read more >
Some Thoughts on Faith
Written by Anne Lamott
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-49609-4 (0-385-49609-5)
Anne Lamott claims to know only two prayers by heart: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of Jesus as "Casper the friendly savior" and...
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