The Place of Tolerance in Islam

Written by Khaled Abou El Fadl

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 8, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0229-2 (0-8070-0229-1)

Khaled Abou El Fadl, a prominent critic of Islamic Puritanism, leads off this lively debate by arguing that Islam is a deeply tolerant religion. Injunctions to violence against nonbelievers stem from misreadings of the Qur’an, he claims, and even jihad, or so-called holy war, has no basis in Qur’anic text or... Read more >

The Feminine Face of God
The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
Written by Sherry Ruth Anderson
Contribution by Patricia Hopkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: July 1, 1992
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-35266-5 (0-553-35266-0)

A pioneering look at the spirituality of North American women that suggests women develop their spirituality very differently from men and require their own female guides and role models. Using interviews with more than 100 women–including Jean Bolen and Maya Angelou–the authors explore the diverse paths of women’s spiritual growth. 272... Read more >

The Case for God

Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38980-0 (0-307-38980-4)

A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind... Read more >

The Case for God

Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26918-8 (0-307-26918-3)

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and... Read more >

The Great Transformation
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.95
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 >

History of God

Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 9, 1994
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-38456-0 (0-345-38456-3)

Do we need God? Why does God exist? In her provocative response to questions like these, Karen Armstrong traces the development of the idea of one god in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

For over 4,000 years the idea of a single divine being has existed. In this masterful and illuminating work... Read more >

Jerusalem
One City, Three Faiths
Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 29, 1997
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-39168-1 (0-345-39168-3)

Karen Armstrong shows how Jerusalem has become that defining place for adherents of the three religions of Abraham. In her view, the city has been not only a symbol of God on earth, but is also a deeply rooted part of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim identity. She traces Jerusalem's physical... Read more >

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 27, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74288-9 (0-307-74288-1)

In this important and thought-provoking work, Karen Armstrong—one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world—provides an impassioned and practical guide to helping us make the world a more compassionate place.

The twelve steps she suggests begin with “Learn About Compassion,” and close with “Love Your... Read more >

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59559-1 (0-307-59559-5)

One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world—author of such acclaimed books as A History of God, Islam, and Buddha—now gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place.

Karen Armstrong believes that while compassion is... Read more >

Interior Castle

Written by Teresa Of Avila
Translated by E. Allison Peers

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Image
On Sale: January 4, 1972
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-03643-6 (0-385-03643-4)

One of the most celebrated works on mystical theology in existence, as timely today as when St. Teresa of Avila wrote it centuries ago, this is a treasury of unforgettable maxims on self-knowledge and fulfillment. Read more >

The Rite
The Making of a Modern Exorcist
Written by Matt Baglio

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Image
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52271-7 (0-385-52271-1)

In The Rite, journalist Matt Baglio uses the astonishing story of one American priest's training as an exorcist to reveal that the phenomena of possession, demons, the Devil, and exorcism are not merely a remnant of the archaic past, but remain a fearsome power in many people's lives even today.

Father Gary... Read more >

Dynamic Catholicism

Written by Thomas Bokenkotter

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Image
On Sale: August 5, 1986
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-23243-2 (0-385-23243-8)

Dynamic Catholicism is a comprehensive, plain-language guide that provides students with a basic introduction to the Catholic faith and the historical evolution of the Church's teachings. Bokenkotter traces the myriad ways throughout history in which the Church has answered questions like: Who is Jesus? Or Mary? Who are the saints? What... Read more >

The Meaning of Mary Magdalene
Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity
Written by Cynthia Bourgeault

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-495-2 (1-59030-495-0)

Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity–yet, if you look in the Bible, you’ll find only a handful of verses that speak of her. How did she become such a compelling saint in the face of such paltry evidence? In her effort to answer... Read more >

Proverbs of Ashes
Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 18, 2002
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6797-0 (0-8070-6797-0)

Rebecca Parker was a young minister in Seattle when a woman walked into her church and asked if God really wanted her to accept her husband’s beatings and bear them gladly, as Jesus bore the cross. Parker knew, at that moment, that if she were to answer the woman's question truthfully... Read more >

New Testament Essays

Written by Raymond E. Brown

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Image
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59164-7 (0-307-59164-6)

For those who have had an introduction to Sacred Scripture, Father Raymond E. Brown, S.S., the outstanding American biblical scholar, has organized this collection of fourteen of his essays on various aspects of the New Testament. Although there are some essays of a popular nature, most of them are studies in... Read more >

Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall

Written by Sir Thomas Browne
Edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-488-3 (1-59017-488-7)

Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases of a near Shakespearean fecundity; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and... Read more >

A Chosen Faith
An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism
Written by John Beuhrens and Forrest Church

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 1998
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1617-6 (0-8070-1617-9)

For those contemplating religious choices, Unitarian Universalism offers an appealing alternative to religious denominations that stress theological creeds over individual conviction and belief. In this new edition of the classic introductory text on Unitarian Universalism, which includes a revealing, entertaining foreword by best-selling author Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to... Read more >

A House for Hope
The Promise of Progressive Religion for the Twenty-first Century
Written by John Beuhrens and Rebecca Ann Parker

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0150-9 (0-8070-0150-3)

For over a generation, conservative religion has seemed dominant in America. But there are signs of a strengthening liberal religious movement. For it to flourish, laypeople need a sense of their theological heritage. A House for Hope lays out, in lively and engaging language, the theological house that religious liberalism has... Read more >

The Pilgrim's Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Written by John Bunyan

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72568-5 (0-375-72568-7)

A Vintage Spiritual Classic

Now available together in a single volume, these two classics were written by seventeenth-century England’s most famous prisoner of conscience, Baptist John Bunyan (1628–1688). Imprisoned for twelve years for his preaching, he wrote first a dramatic allegory of Christian life and followed it with the compelling story of... Read more >

Ka
Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
Written by Roberto Calasso

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77547-8 (0-679-77547-1)

"A giddy invasion of stories--brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful." --The New York Times Book Review

"So brilliant that you can't look at it anymore--and you can't look at anything else. . . . No one will read it without reward."
--The Boston Globe

With the same narrative fecundity and imaginative sympathy he brought... Read more >

Dating Jesus
A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl
Written by Susan Campbell

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1072-3 (0-8070-1072-3)

By the age of twelve, Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time, and in her mind, Jesus had been flirting back. Why wouldn’t he? She went to his house three times a week, listened to his stories, loudly and lustily sang songs to him. She even professed her... Read more >

All the World an Icon
Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings
Written by Tom Cheetham

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-455-4 (1-58394-455-9)

All the World an Icon is the fourth book in an informal "quartet" of works by Tom Cheetham on the spirituality of Henry Corbin, a major twentieth-century scholar of Sufism and colleague of C. G. Jung, whose influence on contemporary religion and the humanities is beginning to become clear. Cheetham's books... Read more >

Orthodoxy

Written by G.K. Chesterton

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Image
On Sale: July 1, 1991
Price: $10.99
ISBN: 978-0-385-01536-3 (0-385-01536-4)

Chesterton's classic explanation of the essentials of the Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief. Written in 1908, it displays all the intellectual clarity and literary skill of one of this century's greatest and most thoughtful authors. Read more >

The Cathedral of the World
A Universalist Theology
Written by Forrest Church

Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0621-4 (0-8070-0621-1)

Described by Cornel West as “a towering public intellectual and the leading universalist philosopher of his generation,” Forrest Church was one of the preeminent liberal theologians of our time. His final gift, The Cathedral of the World, draws from the entire span of Church’s life’s work to leave behind a clear... Read more >

The Separation of Church and State
Writings on a Fundamental Freedom by America's Founders
Edited by Forrest Church

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7747-4 (0-8070-7747-X)

Now in paperback, a primer of essential writings about one of the cornerstones of our democracy by the original authors of the Constitution, edited by preeminant liberal theologian Forrest Church.

Americans will never stop debating the question of church-state separation, and such debates invariably lead back to the nation’s beginnings and the... Read more >