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Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960's.
With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes ...
Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of ...
This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian ...
In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism ...
"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about ...
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book describes not only the main ideas and ...
'Unforgettable...a delicious cacophony of conversations and clamorous arguments echoing across history'
Daily Telegraph
The landmark history of a people, culture and a world.
It ...
At the time of Jesus's birth, the world was in ferment. Across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia -societies rife with gods ...
In 2005 a Vatican-run university opened its doors to priests from around the world, running a course for would-be exorcists. Looking for a story, Rome-based ...
A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly ...
Diarmaid MacCulloch, acknowledged master of the big picture in Christian history, unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. He considers ...