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  • Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America.Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Bible

    A Biography

    Series series Books That Changed the World
    The renowned religious historian “preaches the gospel truth . . . explaining how the spiritual guide . . . came into being and evolved over the centuries” (Vanity Fair).As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world’s largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book and its ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion and the Decline of Magic

    Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England

    Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

    by Jeff Sharlet ...
    **An Instant New York Times Bestseller.A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for NonfictionOne of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023One of The New Republic's Best Books of 2023“A riveting, vividly detailed collage of political and moral derangement in America.” —Joseph O’Neill, New York Times Book ReviewOne of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • The Huguenots

    From the author of Louis XIV, an unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora.Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win—however briefly—freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

    Best Book Award • Mormon History AssociationA brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal).In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Everlasting Man

    Written in 1925, this enduring polemic still strikes a modern chord. In this book G.K. Chesterton explains how religion—a blend of philosophy and mythology—satisfies both the human intellect and the spirit, and sets man starkly apart from any other living creature. Addressing evolution, feminism, and cultural relativism within the context of religion, the book also examines religious skepticism. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A History of Religious Ideas Volume 1

    From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series A History of Religious Ideas
    “Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision.”—Martin E. Marty, The New York Times Book ReviewThis extraordinary work delves into the subject of religion in the prehistoric and ancient worlds—humankind’s earliest quests for meaning. From Neanderthal burials to the mythology of the Iron Age, to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Israel, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Jasher (Book of the Upright)

    by Anonymous ...
    The Book of Jasher is the English name of a work known in original Hebrew as Sefer haYashar, (ספר הישר; transliterated Sēper haiYāšār). It is the best-known of several "Lost books of the Old Testament", books which are referenced in the Hebrew Bible of which no copies are known to exist. The original Hebrew translates the Book of Jasher as the "Book of the Upright". ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Raising Hell

    A Concise History of the Black Arts and Those Who Dared to Practice Them

    An occultism reference chronicling the quest for metaphysical truth, from astronomers to astrologers, necromancers to sorcerers, alchemists to prophets.If the history of black magic and the occult reveals anything, it’s that the drive to marshal the unseen powers of the dark, and bend them to mortal will, is as old as mankind itself. Men and women have believed, in virtually every age and in every ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ismaili Assassins

    A History of Medieval Murder

    “A fascinating history . . . The Medieval conflict between Christians and Muslims has many similarities to the Middle East today.”—FiretrenchThe Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for their own lives. Under the powerful control of an enigmatic grand master, these devoted murderers often slayed ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mahabharata

    Complete Series Book

    The MahabharataKisari Mohan Ganguli, tr.The Mahabharata complete series of all Parva in this book. They are :-1: Adi Parva2: Sabha Parva3: Vana Parva4: Virata Parva5: Udyoga Parva6: Bhishma Parva7: Drona Parva8: Karna Parva9: Shalya Parva10: Sauptika Parva11: Stri Parva12: Santi Parva13: Anusasana Parva14: Aswamedha Parva15: Asramavasika Parva16: Mausala Parva<br ... ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Gospel Of Thomas

    The Gospel Of Thomasby Thomas O. Lambdin"The Gospel of Thomas is a New Testament-era apocryphon completely preserved in a papyrus Coptic manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. The book was bound in a method now called Coptic binding. Unlike the four canonical gospels, which combine narrative accounts of the life of Jesus with sayings, Thomas is a "sayings" text, a collection of logia ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Germany and the Holy Roman Empire

    What Bible prophecy reveals about Germany

    Many people are aware of the atrocities committed by Germany in World War II, but would consider them ancient history. These people are completely unaware of the legacy which Adolf Hitler drew upon in creating his Nazi war machine. His was merely the latest resurrection of a war-making empire with a long and bloody history. Did you know that the Bible prophesied of his regime-as well as the ... Read more

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  • Neighboring Faiths

    Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

    Essays on how Jews, Muslims, and Christians have coexisted—or not—over the centuries, from “a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion” (Commonweal).Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lies Have Ruined the World

    Every statement that a person makes is either true or falsethat is, a lie. In his comprehensive study, Lies Have Ruined the World, author Dennis Proux seeks to expose the dishonesty, myths, and fabrications provided by powerful influences in the most important areas of our lives, including religious institutions, government, and our legal system.Proux feels that all humans yearn to be free to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Foundations of Buddhism

    by Rupert Gethin ...
    Series series OPUS
    Buddhism is a vast and complex religious and philosophical tradition with a history that stretches over 2,500 years, and which is now followed by around 115 million people. In this introduction to the foundations of Buddhism, Rupert Gethin concentrates on the ideas and practices which constitute the common heritage of the different traditions of Buddhism (Thervada, Tibetan, and Eastern) which ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • An Insider's View of Mormon Origins

    by Grant Palmer ...
    Over the past thirty years, an enormous amount of research has been conducted into Mormon origins—Joseph Smith’s early life, the Book of Mormon, the prophet’s visions, and the restoration of priesthood authority. Longtime LDS educator Grant H. Palmer suggests that most Latter-day Saints remain unaware of the significance of these discoveries, and he gives a brief survey for anyone who has ever ... 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 ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    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

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Territories of Science and Religion

    An “extremely rewarding” exploration of how these two great human endeavors can not only coexist but enrich each other (Times Literary Supplement).The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: Our very concepts of science and religion ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Temple: Amazing New Discoveries That Change Everything About the Location of Solomon's Temple

    In a book that is being heralded as an “investigative masterpiece” with “astounding archeological and prophetic implications,” TEMPLE: Amazing New Discoveries That Change Everything About the Location of Solomon’s Temple, by Robert Cornuke, is sending shockwaves through the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian worlds.             Can you imagine the upheaval in political and religious thinking if the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The World of Myth

    An Anthology

    Edited by David Adams Leeming ...
    Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom. Whether an Egyptian story of creation ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Everlasting Man

    Complete and Unabridged

    Here is the book that converted C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity. This history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wells' Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity of Jesus. Whereas Orthodoxy detailed Chesterton's own spiritual journey, this book illustrates the spiritual journey of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $17.99 USD $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus