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WINNER OF THE 2019 DUFF COOPER PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 With emotional and psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our culture. In the process, he has produced a masterpiece. Sunday Times The Bible is the central..

In this book David E. Cooper explores our relationship to nature - to animals, to plants, to natural places - and asks how it can be shaped into an appropriate one which contributes to the good of peoples lives as a whole. Religions and philosophies have much to say about our relationship with natur..

Every day the small wooden people called Wemmicks do the same thing: stick gold stars or grey dots on one another. In this childrens tale, Eli the woodcarver helps Punchinello understand how special he is - no matter what other Wemmicks may think. Its a vital message for children everywhere: that th..

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly connection, and their veneration is a fascinating w..

Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From cell phones and video games to blogs and..

Winner of the Henry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentarie..

Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2022 A The Times Books of the Year 2022 Three thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, led by a father god..

This book offers you an opportunity to internalize and directly experience the great wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, a collection of verses authored by the Chinese prophet Lao-Tzu. The words Tao Te Ching translate as living and applying the Great Way. Although just 81 short verses, the Tao encourages..

The Bhagavad Gita, The Song of the Lord, is probably the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Easwarans clear, accessible translation is the best-selling edition. The Gita opens dramatically, with prince Arjuna collapsing in anguish on the brink of a war that he doesnt want to fight. Arjuna ..