History
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The Gnostic Gospels
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Pagels, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 19 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724532
- Language: English
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Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science
$32.50 Add to cartPhilosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religion
The foundations of modern social science were b- Series: Terry Lectures
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 030023306X
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Best Trick
$30.00 Add to cartPart true crime story, part religious and literary history, an investigation into the nature of evil and the figure of the Devil by acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan
Throughout history, humans have
- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0802119131
- Language: English
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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–And Doesn’t
$18.99 Add to cartThe United States is one of the most religious places on earth, but it is also a nation of shocking religious illiteracy.
- Only 10 percent of American teenagers can name all five major world religions a
- Author: Prothero, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0060859520
- Language: English
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A Little History of Religion
$15.00 Add to cartA rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity’s earliest days to our own times
Religion is distinctly human. We can’t help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Holloway, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283229
- Language: English
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Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
$16.99 Add to cartA provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point of view of traditional” religion from the religious scholar and critically acclaimed author of August
- Author: O’Donnell, James J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0061845396
- Language: English
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Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
$32.95 Add to cartThe formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe’s last ‘pagan’ peoples. But the reality was different. At the margins, often under the … [more below]
- Author: Young, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1009586572
- Language: English
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To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse
$34.99 Add to cartCritical theory has many faces; its complexities and nuances present a challenge to those seeking to engage with its thought. In order to understand critical theory today, we must first understand it
- Author: Trueman, Carl R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1087754399
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Best Trick
$20.00 Add to cartPart true crime story, part religious and literary history, an investigation into the nature of evil and the figure of the Devil by acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan
Throughout history, humans have
- Author: Sullivan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164978
- Language: English
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Shamanism: The Timeless Religion
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a brilliant, young, Harvard-trained anthropologist and contributor to The New Yorker comes a fascinating investigation into the spiritual practice of shamanism, from its beginnings to the present… [more below]
- Author: Singh, Manvir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 593537548
- Language: English
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God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism
$24.00 Add to cart“Lively… points out that the conflict between the worship of many gods and the worship of one true god never disappeared.” —Publishers Weekly
“Jonathan Kirsch has written another blockbuster about t
- Author: Kirsch, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0142196339
- Language: English
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Prepared by Grace, for Grace: The Puritans on God’s Ordinary Way of Leading Sinners to Christ
$25.00 Read moreFew teachings of the Puritans have provoked such strong reactions and conflicting interpretations as their views on preparing for saving faith. Many twentieth-century scholars dismissed preparation a
- Author: Beeke, Joel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 297
- Publish Date: May 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1601782349
- Language: English
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Palestine Posts: An Eyewitness Account of the Birth of Israel
$19.95 Read moreMordecai Chertoff came to Palestine in 1947 as a twenty-five-year-old, determined to make his contribution to the emerging Jewish state… In vivid and often moving letters to his family Mordecai desc… [more below]
- Author: Chertoff, Daniel S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1592645127
- Language: English
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The Great Concern: Preparation for Death
$22.00 Read moreAre you prepared to die?
Sadly, too many people are not ready to face the inevitable.
In this book, Edward Pearse delivers ancient wisdom and encourages us to make preparation for death our great c
- Author: Pearse, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1601787944
- Language: English
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The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
$19.99 Add to cartGoing far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta–ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks–this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man w… [more below]
- Author: Lee, H?l?ne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1556525583
- Language: English
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Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups: People’s Place Book No. 12
$8.95 Read moreThis book tells a story which until now has not been available in such an interesting and comprehensive form. What holds these people together? Why are they growing in number? Where do they live? The … [more below]
- Series: People’s Place Book #12
- Author: Scott, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1561481017
- Language: English
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Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church
$34.95 Read more“The history of Christian theology is in large part a history of heresies, because Jesus and the claims he made . . . seemed incredible,” writes the author. Heresies presents “the story of how succeed… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Harold O. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 161970823X
- Language: English
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African Origins of Major “Western Religions”
$29.95 Add to cartDr. Ben critically examines the history, beliefs, and myths that are the foundation of Judaism. Christianity, and Islam.
- Author: Ben-Jochannan, Yosef A. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 363
- Publish Date: April 02 1991
- ISBN10: 0933121296
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – An extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought–from the New York Times bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0385721242
- Language: English
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Buried Lives: The Protestants of Southern Ireland
$38.95 Read moreThe early twentieth century saw the transformation of the southern Irish Protestants from a once strong people into an isolated, pacified community. Their influence, status and numbers had all but dis… [more below]
- Author: Bury, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1845888804
- Language: English
