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The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience
Stories of Survival and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and loss. Those who were diagnosed before 1996 suffered an exceptionally high rate of mortality, and the survivors -- both the infected individuals and those close...
The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude:What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism(s) of the Second Temple Period. In The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude...
What Is Mathematics?:An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching and learning of mathematics has...
Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession
Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
The death of Pope John Paul II and consequent election of Pope Benedict XVI has shed light on a political process that the world has not been privy to for almost twenty-six years. People from around the world gathered in St. Peter's Square, wondering who the next Vatican leader would be and how the...
A Sunlit Absence:Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
"The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts," writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. "Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence." In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the...
Lost Christianities:The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine,...
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
A Brief History of Swearing
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. Whether they express anger or exhilaration, are meant to insult or to commend, swear words perform a crucial...
by Michael Coogan
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Eminent biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan offers here a wide-ranging and stimulating exploration of the Old Testament, illuminating its importance as history, literature, and sacred text. Coogan explains the differences between the Bible of Jewish tradition (the "Hebrew Bible") and the...
Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary...
Faith and Power:Religion and Politics in the Middle East
Religion and Politics in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal ), as "a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world" (Baltimore Sun ), and as "the...
Growing in Love and Wisdom:Tibetan Buddhist Sources for Christian Meditation
Tibetan Buddhist Sources for Christian Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
In Growing in Love and Wisdom, Susan Stabile draws on a unique dual perspective to explore the value of interreligious dialogue, the essential spiritual dynamics that operate across faith traditions, and the many fruitful ways Buddhist meditation practices can deepen Christian prayer. Raised as a...
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1970
The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies of renewal, doomsday predictions, and New Age...
The Lion's World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia
A Journey into the Heart of Narnia
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams offers fascinating insight into The Chronicles of Narnia, the popular series of novels by one of the most influential Christian authors of the modern era, C. S. Lewis. Lewis once referred to certain kinds of book as a "mouthwash for the imagination."...
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989
The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than natural fighting skills, until CIA agents came...