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NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there...

In this inspiring new program, bestselling author Wayne W. Dyer shows us that there is an omnipresent spiritual force right at our fingertips that contains the solution to our problems -- from ill health, to financial worries, to relationship difficulties. Drawing from various spiritual...

Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation dives deep into the occult roots of the movement, detailing the lives of some of its most prominent figures and the esoteric beliefs that inspired and motivated them. Since the 1970s, everything we learn about the history of the women's movement has been subject to gatekeeping by radicals who run women's studies departments in universities. But there's an entire history that has been obscured from public view.

The Gnostic Gospels provides engaging listening for those seeking a broader perspective on the early development of Christianity. Author and noted scholar Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon...

Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain - "al-Andalus" - as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: It is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity", Fernández-Morera sets the record straight.

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC’s hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and...

Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends — yet no historical phenomenon is its own cause. From Augustine to Marx, various views and perspectives have contributed to the modern understanding of the self.

This early 20th-century translation of the Hebrew Bible by the Jewish Publication Society brings to life the history of the Jewish people in a classical way. It includes the Hebrew texts as they actually appear in the Torah scroll and bears all the hallmarks of a classic work. 

Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion "God" frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word "God” functions in the world’s great theistic faiths.

Eckhart Tolle brings us a much-needed message of hope, revealing how we each have a role in leading humanity in a new direction. As the perils of our world seem to escalate beyond control, how can we reverse the direction we appear to be heading? According to Eckhart Tolle, the answer lies in...

Read by the author. Now a New York Times bestseller, discover solid answers to the provocative questions you’ve been asking about the supernatural world through the investigative work of a former spiritual skeptic. We hear stories all the time about the supernatural--miraculous healings...

Finde innere Ruhe und meistere den hektischen Alltag mit dieser praxisnahen Einführung in die buddhistische Meditation. Ob beim morgendlichen Pendeln oder zum Abschalten nach einem langen Arbeitstag, diese erdende Anleitung verwandelt inneren Stress in tiefe Gelassenheit. Entdecke einen...

In this final volume of the series, John Strickland tells the story of Christendom’s most tumultuous century. As nihilism began to cast its menacing shadow on the eve of the First World War, a self-styled “antichrist” named Friedrich Nietzsche and an obstinately Christian Fyodor Dostoevsky both offered ominous visions of what the West would become if “God is dead” and any moral act thus becomes permissible. Though total warfare seemed to confirm such predictions, a project arose in its wake to rebuild utopia with secular ideologies that, in the case of Nazism, opened the abyss even further.

Diese atmosphärische Religionsgeschichte erweckt antike Mythologie und vergessene vorchristliche Kulte zu neuem Leben. Perfekt für den Arbeitsweg oder einen nachdenklichen Spaziergang, nimmt dich diese Reise mit in eine Epoche, in der Naturgottheiten den gesamten Alltag der Menschen bestimmten...

"Die Geschichte unseres Lebens nachzulesen ist wichtig, um uns zu erinnern und denjenigen etwas weiterzugeben, die uns zuhören. Um aber lernen zu leben, müssen wir lernen zu lieben. Das sollten wir nicht vergessen!" Papst Franziskus. Zum ersten Mal erzählt Papst Franziskus die Geschichte seines Lebens anhand der Ereignisse, die die Menschheit in den letzten achtzig Jahren geprägt haben.

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all – ‘If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?’ And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of our time sets...

Das Buch besteht aus drei Essays und ist eine Erweiterung von Freuds Arbeit zur psychoanalytischen Theorie als Mittel zur Generierung von Hypothesen über historische Ereignisse. Freud stellt die Hypothese auf, dass Moses kein Hebräer war, sondern tatsächlich in den altägyptischen Adel hineingeboren wurde und wahrscheinlich ein Anhänger von Echnaton, einem altägyptischen Monotheisten, war.

Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’ honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period...

A rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be...

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it. Born into the Fundamentalist...