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The Great Circle-Dance of the Religions

By David Stendl-Rast

The driving force of the spiritual quest is our longing to belong.

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Prophesy Deliverance!

In this, his premiere work, Cornel West provides readers with a new understanding of the African American experience based largely on his own political and cultural perspectives borne out of his own life’s experiences.

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Cornel West
2025
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The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism

Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West’s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism.

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Cornel West
1989
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Moses and Monotheism

This volume contains Freud’s speculations on various aspects of religion, on the basis of which he explains certain characteristics of Jewish people in their relations with Christians.

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Sigmund Freud
1955
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How Jesus Christ Is Depicted In Islam

Jesus Christ is the central figure in the New Testament of the Bible, but he is also valued in Islam, and holds importance in the Quran.

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Jesus
2017
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A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband ‘Master’

Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn’t sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment—a year of biblical womanhood.

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Rachel Held Evans
2012
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Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present

Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more “inner” reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F.

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Robert M. Wallace
2021
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Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

What happens when we die? A recent Pew Research poll showed that 72% of Americans believe in a literal heaven and 58% believe in a literal hell. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible.

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Bart D. Ehrman
2025
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The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

From one of the most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word “God” functions in the world’s great faiths Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion—God—frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described.

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David Bentley Hart
2014
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The Living Philosophy of Simone Weil

Albert Camus called the philosopher Simone Weil “the only great spirit of our times.” T.S. Eliot said she was the greatest saint of the 20th century. Charles de Gaulle said she was insane.

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Simone Weil
2021
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Why Study Simone Weil with Philip Goodchild

Prof. Philip Goodchild introduces the thought of Simone Weil (1909-1943) who has been described as a philosopher, a religious thinker, a mystic, and linked with any number of philosophers from Plato to Marx.

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Simone Weil
2016
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Comparing Belief Traditions