Aristotle's Children
Aristotle's ChildrenMedieval Philosophy. It's not a topic that excites many hearts and minds. As a teacher of this subject at university level, the reasons for this are not…
Body Piercing Saved My Life
Body Piercing Saved My LifeAndrew Beaujon's book is not about unusual body piercings but rather about the growth of the Christian Rock movement; the body piercing referred to i…
Contemplative Science
Contemplative ScienceWallace argues that modern science misses what is not materialist and can't be studied objectively. It misses the entirety of what…
Deeper Than Darwin
Deeper Than DarwinJohn Haught's Deeper than Darwin is concerned with the issue of whether, if Darwin's theory of evolution is correct, there is anything significant…
Encountering the Dharma
Encountering the DharmaIn this penetrating study of the Soka Gakkai, Seager takes us on a journey, both personal and scholarly, in search of the true meaning of the Soka Gakkai…
God Is Not Great
God Is Not GreatIn the late 1980s I was in a small city in Europe. There was a central square with a large church at one end and the municipal building at the othe…
Heaven and Hell
Heaven and HellHeaven and Hell is intriguing for those interested in the topic even if it gets a little repetitive and has more detail than some will want, at around 350 pages, but it is an extremely useful resource. Presumably some of Ehrman's claims will be controvers
Hidden Dimensions
Hidden DimensionsThis book goes where angels fear to tread and as such will be dismissed out- of-hand by many traditionally orientated scientists but embraced whole heart…
Hours with the Mystics
Hours with the MysticsWith the exception of Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness which is more evolutionary, Vaughan's 1856 work is the most sophisticatedly literary,…
Pathways to Spirituality
Pathways to SpiritualityThe inside flap tells us that Bill O'Hanlon is a bestselling author and that this is "a groundbreaking book about how a secular spirituality --…
Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth
Peaceful Death, Joyful RebirthAs a hospice patient advocate, I am surrounded by death on a daily basis. The transition from this world into the next has been something I have always…
Ten Lectures on Psychotherapy and Spirituality
Ten Lectures on Psychotherapy and SpiritualityTen Lectures on Psychotherapy and Spirituality takes us on a journey in the world of contemporary psychoanalysis, in the area of its coping with…
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The Cambridge Companion to Atheism
The Cambridge Companion to AtheismThe Cambridge Companion to Atheism -- an anthology edited by Michael Martin -- aims to acquaint its reader with atheism's "history…
The Dark Night of the Soul
The Dark Night of the SoulFacing death by cancer and a serious heart condition May experienced a seeming epiphany making him forget much of his former psychological training and o…
The Improbability of God
The Improbability of GodA companion volume to an earlier book by the same editors (The Impossibility of God), this book presents a collection of papers from an atheist…
The Language of God
The Language of GodFrancis S Collins, MD, PhD, headed up the Human Genome Project from 1993 until its completion in 2003. This international project officially began in 199…
The Power of Faith
The Power of FaithAt a time in the history of the world when a great many--perhaps most--educated people trust that they have overcome their religious impulses, that they…
The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism
The Psychology of Religious FundamentalismThis is a timely book as since 9/11 the phrase 'religious fundamentalism' has entered popular culture by being used, whether rightly or wrongly, to denot…
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The Puppet and the Dwarf
The Puppet and the DwarfAccording to Slavoj Zizek, what constitutes, as per the sub-title of this book, the "perverse core" of the Christian religion? In a properly L…