Religion

In "God is Not Great", Christopher Hitchens takes on his biggest subject yet: the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In an acute reading of the world's major...

This reader brings together for each day of the year three prayer practices for contemplative living: first, a brief "active prayer"; second, spiritual reading; and, third, Lectio Divina. The brief...

An instant classic of contemporary spirituality, bringing together an engaging introduction to the Christian contemplative tradition for people inside or on the margins of the churches who feel drawn to...

Daily Strengths for Daily Needs is a charming and thoughtfully compiled book which has been created to provide the reader with daily spiritual refreshment and comfort. For each day of...

Daily Strengths for Daily Needs is a charming and thoughtfully compiled book which has been created to provide the reader with daily spiritual refreshment and comfort. For each day of...

Since his surprise appointment in March of 2013, Pope Francis has emerged as the most talked-about and most revolutionary pope in living memory. He has become a subject of fascination,...

Since his surprise appointment in March 2013, Pope Francis has emerged as the most talked-about and most revolutionary pope in living memory. He has become a subject of fascination, conversation,...

Spanning both the highly successful Sacred Space: The Prayerbook series and the multilingual, global sacredspace.com, Sacred Space moves with the modern world to create both a personal and globally collective...

Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Tom Wright captures the dauntless power of these letters. They were written by Paul while...

Christians in the West', claims David Watson, 'have largely neglected what it means to be a disciple of Christ. The vast majority of western Christians are church-members, pew-filler, hymn-singers, sermon-tasters,...

Alain de Botton's Religion for Atheists looks at the God debate with fresh eyesAll of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. And in this wise and...

"...clearly a must for all libraries...and for all readers interested in spirituality."Religious Studies ReviewJohn Cassian: Conferences translation and preface by Colm Luibheidintroduction by Owen Chadwick "I f you wish to...

How did Christianity get shared around the world? And how has Christian belief changed over the last 50 years? Providing some of the answers to these and many other questions,...

Father Brown, the fictional priest detective created by novelist G. K. Chesterton, is one of English literature's most compelling characters. In 53 short stories, published between 1910 and 1936, Chesterton's...

"Translates" the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith and contemporary life and culture.

For generations, the Book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that...

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world - overturning the literal reading of...

Buddhism is one of the major world religions today, with approximately 500 million followers worldwide and nearly 300,000 in the UK. Following the Buddha's Enlightenment in north India in the...

'In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. This sentence - and the words of all four gospels - is central to the teachings of the Christian...

Who am I? Am I this human body that is born and dies? Or am I something else? Although we cannot truly know the answer to such questions, we can...

Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth...

It is not only the holy cities of Mecca and Karbala to which Muslim pilgrims travel, but a wide variety of sacred sites around the world. Journeys are undertaken to...