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The Immortalization Commission
Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title At the heart of human experience lies an obsession with the nature of death. Religion, for most of history,...
  
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The Subtle Body
The Story of Yoga in America

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
In The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga’s transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar...
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Thirteen and a Day
The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Across America

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A striking look at the Jewish rite-and at American Jews in all their diversity Since its emergence here a century ago, the bar or bat mitzvah has become a...
  
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Seasons of Celebration

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This work, originally inspired by the liturgical renewal brought on by Vatican II, contains Thomas Merton's meditations on the seasons of the liturgical year....
  
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Taking Back God
American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality

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In Taking Back God Leora Tanenbaum recounts the stories of women across the United States, starting with herself, who love their religion but hate their...
  
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The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary

North Point Press
A landmark new translation and edition Written almost two millennia ago, Patañjali’s work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of...
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Irreligion
A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

Hill and Wang
Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? The mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In Irreligion he presents the case for...
  
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The Bhagavad Gita
A New Translation

North Point Press
A fresh, new prose translation of the classic Indian poem, ideally focused for students and teachers and for yoga teacher training The Bhagavad Gita, a...
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American Islam
The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion

Picador
There are as many as six million Muslims living in the United States, and in American Islam, Paul M. Barrett takes us into their homes, mosques, and private...
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Divided by God
America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It

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A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout...
  

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The Sabbath

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever...
  
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Thoughts In Solitude

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Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary...
  
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The Art of Prayer
An Orthodox Anthology

Faber and Faber, Inc.
A spiritual anthology drawn from the Greek and Russian traditions, concerned in particular with the most frequently used and best loved of all Orthodox...
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The Ramayana
A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic

North Point Press
The great Indian epic rendered in modern prose India's most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's great...
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Walking on Water
Reflections on Faith and Art

North Point Press
In Walking On Water, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship...
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Man Is Not Alone
A Philosophy of Religion

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A modern classic of Jewish theology, Man Is Not Alone is a profound, beautifully written examination of the ingredients of piety: how man senses God's...
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Taking the Path of Zen

North Point Press
There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert...
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The Philokalia, Volume 1
The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth

Faber and Faber, Inc.
The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First...
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
An American Pilgrimage

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to...
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Mystics and Zen Masters

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Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse...
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American Jesus
How the Son of God Became a National Icon

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Jesus the Black Messiah; Jesus the Jew; Jesus the Hindu sage; Jesus the Haight-Asbury hippie: these Jesuses join the traditional figure of Jesus Christ in...
  
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Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
Essays

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
This first collection of Heschel's essays - compiled, edited and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel, is a stunning reminder of the...
  
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King Jesus
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
King Jesus, long out of print, is one of the most controversial historical novels of all time. In it, Robert Graves has summoned his superb narrative powers,...
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The New Man

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The New Man shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity. What must we do to recover possession of...