Religion

The Carthusian Order forms the only completely enclosed religious order in the Roman Catholic Church. The monks live alone in silence and almost perpetual prayer. This comprehensive study provides a...

Contemporary society is the product of the disintegration of more or less natural or familial groupings. Community and Growth - now regarded as one of today's great classics - is...

Meditation, karma, Zen, Tantra, Nirvana - these are some of the many Buddhist ideas that have entered our Western popular idiom, usually inappropriately and half-baked. What is the truth of...

A meditation on the Rosary, the great prayer of Mary. Through a series of reflections we are drawn into the mysteries of the Rosary and invited to pause in a...

In examining a significant contemporary issue as the calendar approaches the holiday season, Life goes to "the Holy Land," the Middle East, to depict the places considered sacred by Jews,...

Jesus emerged from nowhere to become, in his short life - perhaps as few as 32 years - a thinker, teacher and preacher whose words and deeds would change the...

In this book, adapted for children aged 9 to 13, Michael is a boy in the fourth grade, stuck in what seems to be a pretty sorry life. Then Michael...

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody...

Eyewitness Guides are best-selling, high-quality visual information books.This title is a valuable resource to students whether they need to know about the wheel of existence, Christs Crucifixion or a Jewish...

Written by the co-author of "The Orion Mystery" and "The Mayan Prophecies", this book takes the reader through the past, revealing how secret knowledge was both preserved in the East...

The development of theology in recent times has been marked not only by diversity but also by division. With the aim of interpreting new information from philosophy and the sciences...

Muslim scholar Ahmed Osman argues that the Egyptian roots of Christianity were deliberately covered-up by the early Church at the time of the burning of the library at Alexandria -...

This introduction to Hinduism, based on a series of lectures given by the author, seeks to recount the history of this religion from the Indus civilization, the warrior Aryans to...