Religion and Spirituality

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Updated October 21, 2024
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Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis. For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various...
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Sarah McCammon
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no...
Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Nijay K. Gupta
Paper Book
"A fresh and rigorously researched take on Christianity's founding."--Publishers Weekly The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs...
Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Shai Held
Paper Book
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love. A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the...
Bad Jew: A Perplexed Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
Noah Feldman
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other. What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question...
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
Benjamin E. Park
Paper Book
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 prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smith's would endure, becoming the most significant homegrown religion in...
The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
Mohamad Jebara
Paper Book
"Appropriately epic and consistently erudite, yet accessible for lay readers." --Kirkus (Starred review) Based on extensive scholarship, an innovative biography of the central text of Islam Over a billion copies of the Qur`an exist - yet it remains...
I Am Asking in the Name of God: Ten Prayers for a Future of Hope
Papa Francesco
Paper Book
The beloved Pope Francis's long-awaited prayers for the ten most pressing issues the world is facing today, inspiring action to radically unite humanity in hope for a peaceful future "The clock is ticking, and all life is in danger, yet we still have time. . . ....

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