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  • The Triumph of Christianity

    How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

    New York Times Bestseller: A “marvelous” account of how the tiny sect of Christianity rapidly became the dominant religion in the West (Reza Aslan, New York Times–bestselling author of Zealot).How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire become the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Paranormal America (second edition)

    Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture

    An “engrossing and intellectually stimulating” portrait of the countless Americans who believe in paranormal phenomena (Journal of Religion and Culture).Popular culture makes clear that there’s a seemingly insatiable public appetite for information and entertainment about what we call the paranormal, supernatural, or mystical. But how many Americans believe in the paranormal, and who are they? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nonverts

    The Making of Ex-Christian America

    An entertaining and insightful exploration of the American ex-religious The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Or, perhaps it is better to say a non-religious revolution. Around a quarter of US adults now say they have no religion. The great majority of these religious "nones" also say that they used to belong to a religion but no longer do. These are the nonverts: think ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Deeper Shades of Purple

    Womanism in Religion and Society

    Edited by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas ...
    Series series Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
    A collection of leading voices on the study of Black women in religious lifeWomanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. Deeper Shades of Purple explores the achievements of this movement over the past two decades and evaluates some of the leading voices and different perspectives ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • City of Gods

    Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens

    This study of a New York neighborhood’s remarkable religious diversity “deserves a place alongside Robert Orsi’s The Madonna of 115th Street” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Known locally as the “birthplace of American religious freedom,” Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it’s become a microcosm of world religions. City of Gods explores the history ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pornography Wars

    The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession

    For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister**, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cultural.**In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in 1982, evangelical activist Tim LaHaye foretold that the entire pornography industry would soon be driven out of business. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Work Pray Code

    When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

    by Carolyn Chen ...
    How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Under the Banner of Heaven

    A Story of Violent Faith

    by Jon Krakauer ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU.“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco ChronicleDefying both civil authorities and the Mo. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • American Cosmic

    UFOs, Religion, Technology

    by D.W. Pasulka ...
    More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions. Over the course of a six-year ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Right Side of History

    How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

    by Ben Shapiro ...
    A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California–Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that Western ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Darling

    A Spiritual Autobiography

    An award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9/11Hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality.Rodriguez’s stylish new memoir—the first book in a decade from ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Religious Orgy in Tennessee

    A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial

    by H.L. Mencken ...
    "The native American Voltaire, the enemy of all puritans, the heretic in the Sunday school, the one-man demolition crew of the genteel tradition."—Alistair CookeFiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken’s coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial so galvanized the nation that it eventually inspired a Broadway play and the classic Hollywood movie Inherit the Wind ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between

    by Jeff Sharlet ...
    “A master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion’s underexplored realms.”—Michael Washburn, Washington PostIn this gorgeous collection of essays that has drawn comparisons to the work of Joan Didion, John McPhee, and Norman Mailer, best-selling author Jeff Sharlet reports back from the far reaches of belief, whether in the clear mountain air of “Sweet Fuck All, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

    American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

    by Tim Alberta ...
    Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and *Air Mail*Best Book of the Year"Brave and absorbing." -- New York Times“Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues.” -- Washington Post... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Next Story

    Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion

    by Tim Challies ...
    Even the least technical among us are being pressed from all sides by advances in digital technology. We rely upon computers, cell phones, and the Internet for communication, commerce, and entertainment. Yet even though we live in this “instant message” culture, many of us feel disconnected, and we question if all this technology is really good for our souls. In a manner that’s accessible, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Why the Jews Rejected Jesus

    The Turning Point in Western History

    Why did the Jews reject Jesus? Was he really the son of God? Were the Jews culpable in his death? These ancient questions have been debated for almost two thousand years, most recently with the release of Mel Gibson’s explosive The Passion of the Christ. The controversy was never merely academic. The legal status and security of Jews—often their very lives—depended on the answer.In WHY THE JEWS ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Waking Up

    A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

    by Sam Harris ...
    For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

    by R. H. Tawney ...
    Series series Verso World History Series
    A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalismIn one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. He tracks the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages, shedding light on the question of why Christianity ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Emergence and Evolution of Religion

    By Means of Natural Selection

    Series series Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all human societies? The authors of the book—each with a different background across the social sciences and humanities—assimilate conceptual leads and empirical findings from anthropology, evolutionary biology, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Working on God

    Why do I exist? Is this all there is? What is my true nature? What is most important in life? How should I live? These are humanity's oldest spiritual questions. At the year 2000, however, many who ask them are profoundly estranged from religion. To some, religion is belief in the unbelievable--incom-patible with intelligence and learning. To others, it's just another bureaucratic institution- ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dying to Be Normal

    Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics

    Finalist, Best LGBTQ Nonfiction Book, Lambda Literary Awards 2020 On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to mourn the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who had been murdered in Wyoming eight days earlier. Politicians and celebrities addressed the crowd and the televised national audience to share their grief with the country. Never before ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

    **New Yorker — "The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far"The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation.**The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called “burned-over district” of upstate New York, which was producing seers and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The First Thousand Years

    A Global History of Christianity

    “[A] brilliant survey of the development of Christianity . . . tells a riveting story of a struggling young religion searching for an identity.” —Publishers WeeklyThis sweeping history begins with the life of Jesus and narrates the remarkable story of Christianity as it unfolded over the next thousand years. Unique in its global scope, the book encompasses the vast geographical span of early ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Living Ancestors

    Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco

    by Zeljko Jokic ...
    This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the “part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD