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The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade ProphetWall Street Journal's Five Best Books About Cults The true story ofcult leader Cyrus Teed and his hollow earth theoryFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida....
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Basic Teachings of the Buddha: A New Translation and Compilation, with a Guide to Reading the TextsIn Basic Teachings of the Buddha, Glenn Wallis selects sixteen essential dialogues drawn from more than five thousand Pali-dialect suttas of the Buddhist canon. The result is a vibrant introductory guide to studying Buddhist thought, applying its principles to everyday life, and gaining a...
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Daodejing: The New, Highly Readable Translation of the Life-Changing Ancient Scripture Formerly Known as the Tao Te ChingThis translation presents Daoism's basic text in highly readable contemporary English. Incorporating the latest scholarship in the field (including the most recent discoveries of ancient manuscripts in the 1970s and '90s), the book explains Daodejing's often cryptic verses in a clear and concise way....
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The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the GospelsBorn in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. Before Hayyim Soloveitchik developed the standard Brisker method of Talmudic study, or Joseph Dov Soloveitchik helped to found American Modern Orthodox Judaism, Elijah Soloveitchik...
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Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century ThoughtThere emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians working in secular universities or writing for an audience not defined by any one...
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The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Isma'ilis Against the Islamic WorldThe sect known as the Assassins, a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the Man in the Mountain encountered by the Crusaders. But it was not defeat at...
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Nordic Religions in the Viking AgeThe popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining Viking conquerors as much more numerous, technologically superior, and somehow inherently more warlike than their neighbors has overshadowed the cooperation...
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Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages"Lyrical in parts, this is a deep and reflective reading of those clusters of contradictory images which attempted to make sense of the exultant and the vulnerable in medieval bodies. Dyan Elliott offers a potent combination of the rigor of textual analysAuthor: Dyan ElliottPublisher:...
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Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban NorthStemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested...
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Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian EastPlaces Orthodox sources--icons, hymns, and prayers--on motherhood into conversation with each other. In so doing, this work brings an anchored vision of motherhood to the twenty-first century--especially the embodied experience of motherhood. +Author: Carrie Frederick FrostPublisher: Paulist PressPublished: 06/04/2019Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 7.90h x...
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A Basic Guide to the Old TestamentA simple tool for a first reading of the Bible that answers the first questions that are posed by the reader who has little familiarity with the Bible and helps with the critical reading of the Bible, i.e., to maintain the right distance to...
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Navigating Toward Adulthood: A Theology of Ministry with AdolescentsThe theological and ministerial task at the heart of ministry with adolescents is assisting adolescents to recognize and grow into the multiple relationships in their lives, including their relationship with God. The author divides her work into four parts. In Part I, she establishes...
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The Church as Woman and Mother: Historical and Theological FoundationsHelps readers understand the imaging of the church as a woman and mother in its beginnings and the implications for the contemporary church. +Author: Cristina Lledo GomezPublisher: Paulist PressPublished: 09/04/2018Pages: 292Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80dISBN: 9780809153329This title is only available...
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Renouncing Everything: Money and Discipleship in LukeOn a planet with billions of impoverished people, the perennial questions of money and morality become more poignant with each generation. On a planet with billions of Christians, Jesus's teachings on possessions, especially in the Gospel of Luke, are of vital importance. Yet Luke's...
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Sacred Rituals for Every DayCelebrates the unique quality and gift of each day through small rituals. +Author: Anselm GrünPublisher: Paulist PressPublished: 08/01/2017Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 7.10h x 5.00w x 0.20dISBN: 9780809153305About the AuthorGrn, Anselm: - Anselm Grn, OSB, is a German Benedictine father. He is in charge of...
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Christians, Muslims, and Mary: A HistoryMoving through history, views of Mary's role in Christian-Muslim relations have constantly shifted back and forth from bridge to barrier and back again. This book focuses on history, and the use (sometimes polemical, sometimes irenic) of Mary as either a bridge or barrier between...
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101 Questions & Answers on Women in the New TestamentThe topic of women in the New Testament surfaces as a very important one in twenty-first- century Christianity. Since the percentage of women in these churches remains very high, it becomes imperative that women of faith understand their biblical foremothers. Moreover, Christian men, especially...
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Loving Creation: Christian Spirituality, Earth-Centered and JustDescribes the transformation of mind and heart that is required for a new way of life on our planet, offering a holistic Christian spirituality that is both Earth-centered and justice-oriented.Author: Kathleen FischerPublisher: Paulist PressPublished: 11/01/2009Pages: 211Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60dISBN:...
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I Walk with JesusI Walk with Jesus is a book that puts us in touch with the central meaning of the Gospel: we follow the way of Jesus when we serve those who are suffering and needy, and we are strengthened in this by prayer, the Word...
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Meeting Saint Paul with the Pope: Wednesday Audiences During the Pauline Jubilee YearDuring the special Pauline Jubilee Year, Pope Benedict XVI used his Wednesday audiences as an opportunity to meet one of the most influential persons in the history of Christianity, Saint Paul. Meeting Saint Paul is the complete collection of these twenty-one papal reflections.Author: Pope...
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