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SILENCE
A Christian HistoryDIARMAID MacCULLOCH
£10.95This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which w... Learn More -
FOOD, SEX AND STRANGERS
Understanding Religion as Everyday LifeGRAHAM HARVEY
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You Save: 53%Religion is integral to many people's relationship with the wider world, an aspect of their dwelling among other beings -- both human and other-than-human -- and something manifested in the everyday w... Learn More -
EDITH STEIN AND REGINA JONAS
Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death CampsEMILY LEAH SILVERMAN
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You Save: 45%Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstrated 'deviant' religious desires as they pursued their spiritual paths to serve their communities during the Holocaust. Stein, th... Learn More -
THE DARK BOX
A Secret History of ConfessionJOHN CORNWELL
£8.95Would you tell your deepest secrets to a relative stranger? And if you did, would you feel vulnerable? Confession has performed a complex role in society and created mixed feelings in its practitioner... Learn More -
OCTAVIA, DAUGHTER OF GOD
The Story of a Female Messiah and Her FollowersJANE SHAW
£9.95In 1919 a remarkable group of English women founded the Panacea Society, a new religion to tackle the world's grief. At the heart of the community was a charismatic and autocratic leader, Mabel Barltr... Learn More -
KABBALAH IN ITALY, 1280-1510
A SurveyMOSHE IDEL
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You Save: 67%This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost scholars of the doctrine. Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and li... Learn More -
A PEOPLE OF ONE BOOK
The Bible and the VictoriansTIMOTHY LARSEN
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You Save: 66%Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. Larsen explores the scripture-saturat... Learn More -
OUT OF EDEN
Adam and Eve and the Problem of EvilPAUL W KAHN
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You Save: 60%A book which begins with the sentence 'Evil makes us human' must surely compel attention; and this is no ordinary account of what is usually meant by the problem of evil. Instead, Kahn's aim is to exp... Learn More -
THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRIENDSHIP
MARK VERNON
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You Save: 79%Friendship, we believe or hope, is elastic enough to connect us across the web of complex lives, and strong enough not to snap. But is it? Vernon examines the love called friendship upon which so much... Learn More -
THE WISDOM BOOKS
Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes: a Translation with CommentaryROBERT ALTER
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You Save: 41%This new translation of and commentary on the Hebrew Bible holds some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The astounding poetry in the Book of Job is restored to its powerful ancient me... Learn More
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