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A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible (facsimile)
- £25.00
- A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible is an early American children's book. Published in 1788 by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, Massachusetts,[1][2] it is a Bible partially in rebus form (some words replaced by pictures). This is a facsimile of an early British edition.
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
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- American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced three seismic shocks, say Robert Putnam and David Campbell. In the…
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Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
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Art, Faith and Modernity
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- Which artists in British 20th century art painted religious images? Broadly speaking there seem to have been two categories: The first concerns artists who created religious images when the religious content was in response to a set subject, for example The Deluge in the 1920 Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting,…
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Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion
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- Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This book examines how the media frequently miss or misunderstand these stories because they do not take religion seriously, and how they misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. To the extent that journalists do not grasp…
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
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- One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. But these…
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Messiah
- £40.00
- Gore Vidal's "Messiah" is a chilling exploration of faith, manipulation, and the seductive power of belief. This dystopian novel delves into a future consumed by a new religion centered on the glorification of suicide. Through sharp satire, Vidal examines the nature of cults and the dangers of blind devotion. A…
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On Presence: Variations and Reflections
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- The Reverend Ralph Harper, a philosopher and theologian, has been credited with introducing existentialism to North America in 1948 with his work Existentialism: A Theory of Man. Forty years later, Harper delved deeper into the interior life of the human imagination in On Presence: Variations and Reflections. Winner of the…
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Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture
- £50.00
- A Photographic Pilgrimage to the Temples of Modernism Sacred Modernity documents the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe. Spurred on by the modernizing impulses of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, and in search for an appropriate architectural language that showed that the Catholic Church was…
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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
- £12.00
- The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in…
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The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion
- £19.00
- The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber's idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a 'disenchantment of the world'…
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There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
- £7.00
- In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever change the atheism debate.
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A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible (facsimile)
- £25.00
- A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible is an early American children's book. Published in 1788 by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, Massachusetts,[1][2] it is a Bible partially in rebus form (some words replaced by pictures). This is a facsimile of an early British edition.
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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
- £15.00
- American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced three seismic shocks, say Robert Putnam and David Campbell. In the…
- Add to basket
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Anatheism: Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
- £16.00
- Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew?…
- Add to basket
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Art, Faith and Modernity
- £25.00
- Which artists in British 20th century art painted religious images? Broadly speaking there seem to have been two categories: The first concerns artists who created religious images when the religious content was in response to a set subject, for example The Deluge in the 1920 Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting,…
- Add to basket
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Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion
- £25.00
- Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This book examines how the media frequently miss or misunderstand these stories because they do not take religion seriously, and how they misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. To the extent that journalists do not grasp…
- Add to basket
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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval
- £25.00
- One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current era of man-made climate change, the world has suffered repeated, severe climate-driven shocks. These shocks have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. But these…
- Add to basket
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Messiah
- £40.00
- Gore Vidal's "Messiah" is a chilling exploration of faith, manipulation, and the seductive power of belief. This dystopian novel delves into a future consumed by a new religion centered on the glorification of suicide. Through sharp satire, Vidal examines the nature of cults and the dangers of blind devotion. A…
- Add to basket
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On Presence: Variations and Reflections
- £15.00
- The Reverend Ralph Harper, a philosopher and theologian, has been credited with introducing existentialism to North America in 1948 with his work Existentialism: A Theory of Man. Forty years later, Harper delved deeper into the interior life of the human imagination in On Presence: Variations and Reflections. Winner of the…
- Add to basket
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Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture
- £50.00
- A Photographic Pilgrimage to the Temples of Modernism Sacred Modernity documents the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe. Spurred on by the modernizing impulses of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, and in search for an appropriate architectural language that showed that the Catholic Church was…
- Add to basket
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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
- £12.00
- The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in…
- Add to basket
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The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion
- £19.00
- The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Weber's idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a 'disenchantment of the world'…
- Add to basket
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There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
- £7.00
- In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever change the atheism debate.
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