Product Description: In this lively, round-the-world trip, law professor and humorist Jay Wexler explores the intersection of religion and the environment.Did you know that    • In Hong Kong and Singapore, Taoists burn paper money to appease “hungry ghosts,” filling the air with smoke and dangerous toxins?    • In Mumbai, Hindus carry twenty-foot-tall plaster of Paris idols of the elephant god Ganesh into the sea and leave them on the ocean floor to symbolize the impermanence of life, further polluting the scarce water resources of western India?    • In Taiwan, Buddhists practicing “mercy release” capture millions of small animals and release them into inappropriate habitats, killing many of the animals and destroying ecosystems?    • In Central America, palm frond sales to US customers for Palm Sunday celebrations have helped decimate the rain forests of Guatemala and southern Mexico?    • In New York, Miami, and other large US cities, Santeria followers sprinkle mercury in their apartments to fend off witches, poisoning those homes for years to come?    • In Israel, on Lag B’omer, a holiday commemorating a famous rabbi, Jews make so many bonfires that the smoke can be seen from space, and trips to the emergency room for asthma and other pulmonary conditions spike?Law professor and humorist Jay Wexler travels the globe in order to understand the complexity of these problems and learn how society can best address them...read more

Product Description: Around the globe religion is under attack. Humanists, secularists and atheists depict believers as deluded and dangerous. The aim of this book is to challenge this perception. Sensible Religion defends the validity and emphasises the excitement of the religious quest across the faiths...read more

Product Description: This gift book for young girls is the perfect next step in the Tyndale princess line. As young girls grow and leave behind some of the fully illustrated picture books, they still want to feel special, and they still need to know they are loved as God’s daughters...read more

In Rise Above, a book of devotions, teen surfing star Bethany Hamilton shares with young girls her courage and enthusiasm for God, inspiring them to face life head on and stand strong in their faith.

Product Description: This book is the work of an international group of religious and scholars, under the leadership of Redemptorist Archbishop Joseph Tobin, formerly Secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life. With a wealth of pastoral experience and theological insight from orders both old and new, this book studies the legacy left behind by a Council that stood at the bridge between the modern and the postmodern age...read more

Product Description: Have you ever struggled with your body image or in a moment of depression asked, “Why am I ugly?” Bestselling author Elizabeth George wants you to experience the confidence of knowing that you are beautiful in God’s eyes. Many young women struggle with eating disorders or distorted body images because they believe the world’s version of ultimate beauty, perfection, or femininity...read more

Product Description: In this book, parents and children are invited to connect with 62 key words of kabbalistic wisdom arranged in alphabetical order. Using language distilled to its very essence and beautifully evocative illustrations, these pages pave the way for children to not just understand the meaning of each word, but engage with it on the level of feeling...read more

Joining Mississippi's Freedom Riders, proud African-American Deon Booker begins a devastating journey, accompanied by heiress Alicia Canfield, whose new law degree fails to protect her from racial violence. Original.

Product Description: Baby’s First Bible makes the perfect gift to celebrate a new birth. Make this joyous occasion extra-special with the gift of God’s Word. Prayers and adorable illustrations complement the complete text of the King James Version...read more

Product Description: Baby’s First Bible makes the perfect gift to celebrate a new birth. Make this joyous occasion extra-special with the gift of God’s Word. Prayers and adorable illustrations complement the complete text of the King James Version...read more

Product Description: Was das Heilige ist und wie man daruber sprechen kann, ist eine offene Frage in der religionswissenschaftlichen und theologischen Forschung. Die Beitrage analysieren Diskurse uber Heiliges in spatantiken Religionskulturen. Terminologien, Handlungen und Reflexionen in Bezug auf Heiliges werden in ihrem jeweiligen religiosen Bezugssystem thematisiert...read more

Product Description: Are we looking at the imminent death of religious life in the church, at a future full of hope, or at something in between? This book, based on papers given at a colloquium run by the Religious Life Institute (Heythrop College, University of London), addresses urgent questions around the renewal and survival of religious life from a British and Irish, religious and lay perspective...read more

Product Description: Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be...read more

Product Description: This complete Bible in an Easy-to-ReadTM translation contains 40 full-color illustrations, and map. It provides an ideal way for parents to read God's Word to their children, and for elementary school-aged children to read God's Word for themselves...read more

What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world. Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it—because the world’s religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world. For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.

Product Description: Insights from a pioneering leader in world religion, on the intersections of the sacred & the secular."As Christians―indeed as people of faith of any tradition―we are called to tend to the needs of the least among us. Our response to them must be the response of faith...read more

Product Description: I wake up and feel my hands to see if I still exist. I do, and I wasn't dreaming. I've always felt my life has been different but I never thought that something like this would ever happen to me. It's like being in a fairy tale, or an imaginary dream - but this is reality...read more