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Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with hadīth, this book analyze……続きを見る

Shaman, Saiva and Sufi by R.O. Winstedt. "This book is the outcome of a close study of the language and beliefs of the Malays during a period of residence in the Malay Peninsula that has now reached……続きを見る

An amazing, often overlooked story of the man who brought Yoga and Tibetan culture to America. Theos Bernard’s colorful, enigmatic, and sometimes contradictory life captures an intersection of East ……続きを見る

* This is not a cheap scanned copy, but a fully searchable and formatted collection! JESUS THE MESSIAH is the official abridged edition of Alfred Edersheim’s monumental and classic work “The Life of……続きを見る

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularizationーthe exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbr……続きを見る

If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an anci……続きを見る

In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of ter……続きを見る

Lawgiver and liberator. Seer and prophet. The only human permitted to converse with God "face-to-face." Moses is the most commanding presence in the Old Testament. Yet as Jonathan Kirsch shows in th……続きを見る

The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and official theology of the "founding fathers" of ……続きを見る

For over a century, the Carmelite Sister Th?r?se of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873-1897) has been revered as Catholicism's foremost folk saint of modern times. Universally known as "the Lit……続きを見る

This fascinating, informative, and beautifully illustrated books translates the Passover seder's Four Questions into twenty-three languages and provides capsule histories of the Jews in the countrie……続きを見る

The final ten days of the war in heaven unleashed God’s stones of accusation upon the worlds surrounding Earth, as heaven’s edict of judgment destroyed the face of Mars and the Moon. Nothing was spa……続きを見る

This is a detailed description of the various Sufi orders and movements which entered into the Balkans, the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Eastern Europe following the Ottoman conquests. Many ……続きを見る

This book offers a new interpretation of William James's ethical and religious thought. Michael Slater shows that James's conception of morality, or what it means to lead a moral and flourishing lif……続きを見る

The International Bestseller "A true story that surpasses any novel by John le Carré."ーEl Pa**ís (Spain) For five centuries, the Vaticanーthe oldest organization in the world, maker of kings and sh……続きを見る

This is an historical survey of all the religious traditions of Korea in relation to the socio-cultural trends of seven different periods of Korean history. The book includes a discussion of the his……続きを見る

Tertium Organum P.D. Ouspensky "This is P.D. Ouspenky's Tertium Organum, which he believed was the third major philosophical synthesis, the previous being those of Aristotle and Bacon. Original……続きを見る

Revised 08/11/2015 A brief introduction to the history of Wicca and it's present day practices.This is not a complete compendium, but a workshop for beginners. Written both as a method to create und……続きを見る

The Syrian Goddess translated by Herbert A. Strong Lucian of Samosata's account of Astarte worship in the late classical era, in what is now Turkey. "Lucian of Samosata's De Dea Syria, (the Syr……続きを見る

Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. American sympathies for the State of Israel are consistently and often substantially higher……続きを見る

In The Seven Woods by W. B. Yeats A short book of poetry and a play by Yeats on Irish mythological themes. "In the Seven Woods is a volume of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1904. This i……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how the Founding Fathers viewed faithーand how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of ch……続きを見る

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual boo……続きを見る

This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization,……続きを見る

In recent decades, reception history has become an increasingly important and controversial topic of discussion in biblical studies. Rather than attempting to recover the original meaning of biblica……続きを見る

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics o……続きを見る

Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly……続きを見る

According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6)……続きを見る

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Gray focuses on the social, administrative, political, and spiritual dimensions of the lives of three Congrégation superiors - Marie Barbier, Marie-Josèphe Maugue-Garreau, and Marie Raizenne. By exp……続きを見る