How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures by Robin Dunbar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Religion
A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologist When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured? Every society in the history of humanity has live ...Show more
The Koran by N. J. Dawood
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Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Classics
N. J. Dawood's masterful translation of The Koran in a fully revised edition The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible word of God as first revealed to the prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago. Its 114 chapters recount the narratives and rules ...Show more
How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron
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Category: Religion
Discover newfound freedom in life's ever-constant flow of endings and beginnings with the wise words of Pema Ch dr n, beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart_x200B_. New in paperback! x200Bx200B As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment-the end of ...Show more
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis
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Category: Religion
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, Life is the story of a man ...Show more
Ageless Soul by Thomas Moore
$39.99 AUD
Category: Religion
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CARE OF THE SOUL COMES AN UPLIFTING MEDITATION ON THE ART OF GROWING OLDER `Thomas Moore convinces us that we age best when we embrace our age, live agelessly, and remember every day to find the endless joy nestled inside our soul'Dr Rudolph E. Tanzi, Profes ...Show more
Little Book of Buddhism by Bstan-dzin-rgya-Mtsho; Dalai Lama
$14.99 AUD
Category: Religion
Discover Buddhism with the world's most revered spiritual leaderThis jewel of a book offers the core teachings on Buddhism applicable in daily life from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is a classic timeless collection of advice and teachings about the importance of love and compassion, individual resp ...Show more
A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Religion
Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions and, despite the extraordinarily varied forms it has taken and diverse beliefs it has contained over three millennia, it has been generally understood by both Jews and gentiles as a single entity. There have been many histories of t ...Show more
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Category: Religion
"When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing. And at that moment you can have real communication with the Earth... We have to wake up together. And if we wake up together, then we have a chance. Our way of living our life a ...Show more
The Word - On the Translation of the Bible by John Barton
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Category: Religion
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of the Bible, this is the story of how the Bible has been translated, and why it matters The Bible is held to be both universal and specific, the source of fundamental truths inscribed in words that are exact and sacred. For much of the history of Ju ...Show more
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton
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Category: Religion
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLERA SUNDAY TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'With emotional and psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our culture. In the process, he has produced a masterpiece.' Sunday Times The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths whic ...Show more
The Qur'an
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a ...Show more
Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God by Catherine Nixey
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Category: Religion
'In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. This sentence - and the words of all four gospels - is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind.Yet in the years after the death of Christ there was not merely one ...Show more