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An open, frank and revealing dialogue with a rabbi from the man who became Pope Francis.On Heaven and Earth is an open and expansive conversation between Jorge Mario Bergoglio and...

Prayer is the raising of our hearts and minds to God. We are able to speak to and listen to God because He teaches us to pray. Prayer is also...

TEACH YOURSELF JUDAISM helps you to grasp the beliefs and practices of the Jewish faith and understand Judaism as a living religion. It presents the main element of Judaism in...

The Scripture, prayers, and reflections in Sacred Space: The Prayer Book will inspire you to a richer daily spiritual experience throughout the liturgical year and invite you to develop a...

'I have heard the supreme mystery, yoga, from Krishna, from the lord of yoga himself.' Thus ends the Bhagavad Gita, the most famous episode from the great Sanskrit epic, the...

Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Islam. Malise Ruthven's Very Short Introduction...

Since this book has brought Fr Boff into confrontation with the Roman Catholic authorities it is important to let him describe it himself.'We are living in privileged times. There is...

This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical...

Keeping Jesus at the heart of his teaching, the author sets out to show that Eastern spirituality has much to offer the Western Christian world. Rightly understood, he argues, it...

Discusses the writings and philosophy of the controversial ninteenth-century theologian who worked for changes both in the Anglican Church, and, after his conversion, in the Catholic Church

Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas's life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten.Today Aquinas is almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding...

Life has its rhythms, and so should prayer. Drawing on the traditions of Celtic Christianity, The Rhythm of Life is a beautiful daily prayer book that provides offices for each...

From a perspective derived from more than 20 years of study and practice, the author casts a critical eye over modern society and the teachings of Buddhism as they flow...

In The Nativity: History and Legend Geza Vermes penetrates the deeper meanings of the New Testament story that evolved into the festival we call Christmas. The Nativity is at the...

In this important, scholarly and wide-ranging text, Brian Morris provides a lucid outline of the nature of the explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx,...