DailyLit: Religion Books

Wikipedia Tours: Major World Religions

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Throughout history religion has proven to be a dramatic point of contrast between civilizations, and it plays a critical role in today's global society. Our world's myriad of faiths and belief systems, entangled in some places, clashing in others, has played a central role in many of the conflicts that plague various regions around the globe. But, through knowledge and understanding of the faith felt, believed, and lived by different groups, religion can offer us a way to bridge the cultural gaps, to make a multifaceted whole rather than splintered parts.

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The Koran

by Marmaduke Pickthall (Translator)

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Ten Eternal Questions

by Zoe Sallis (Editor)

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Ten Eternal Questions asks leading political, artistic, and religious figures the timeless spiritual questions. "What is your concept of God?" "Do you think this life is all there is?" are just two of the ten questions author Zoë Sallis puts to such diverse figures as Nelson Mandela and U2's Bono, Shimon Peres and Jack Nicholson, Paulo Coelho and the Dalai Lama. Chapters are organized by question with extracts drawn from Sallis's interviews with almost 40 personalities, among them Bob Geldof, Gore Vidal, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Gianfranco Ferre, Farah Pahlavi (the exiled Empress of Iran), Anjelica Huston, as well as other artists, scientists, and religious figures. In these days of increasing commercialism and religious polarization, this absorbing book speaks to an impulse for a stronger spiritual dimension in our lives and its range of answers—spontaneous, surprising, and insightful; provocative, considered, and personally revealing—offers readers much to ponder and reflect upon in their own quest to understand life's mysteries.

About the Author

Zoë Sallis was for many years the partner of film director John Huston, whom she met in 1960, and is the mother of actor/director Danny Huston. Formerly an actress herself, she now lives in London.

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Previously published by Chronicle Books.

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Letters to a Young Catholic

by George Weigel

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In this remarkable tour of the Catholic world, George Weigel helps us understand how Catholicism fosters what Flannery O'Connor called "the habit of being." Taking the reader by the hand, Weigel embarks on a journey to Catholic landmarks as diverse as Chartres Cathedral and St. Mary's Church in Greenville, South Carolina; the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and G.K. Chesterton's favorite pub; the grave of a modern martyr in Warsaw, and the Sistine Chapel. Weaving together insights from history, literature, theology, and music, Weigel uses these touchstones to illuminate the beliefs that have shaped Catholicism for two thousand years. With clarity and conviction, Weigel examines the foundations of Catholic faith and explores the topics of grace, prayer, vocation, sin and forgiveness, suffering, and—most importantly—love. Putting a dramatic face on this invitation to Catholicism, Weigel introduces some of the figures who have shaped his faith and thought—Michelangelo and Fra Angelico; Evelyn Waugh and Cardinal John Henry Newman; Father Jerzy Popieuszko and Pope John Paul II; Edith Stein and Mother Teresa—as he also shares anecdotes from his own Catholic life. To a world that sometimes seems closed and claustrophobic, he suggests, Christian humanism offers a world with windows and doors—and a skylight. In these letters, George Weigel conveys the power of a faith that is at once personal and universal, timely and eternal. His book will inspire not only the young generation of Catholics whose World Youth Day celebrations have launched an era of renewal for the Church, but also the faithful, the doubtful, and the searchers of every age.

Praise for Letters to a Young Catholic:

"Letters to a Young Catholic is an engaging, lucid and informative introduction to the teachings and traditions of Catholicism."
—Wall Street Journal

"This is a luminous work that would appeal to anyone interested in faith, hope, and life itself."
—Booklist

"A marvelous book; a great gift for young people of your acquaintance. But be sure to get a copy of yourself as well."
—First Things

"[Weigel] mixes the popular pilgrimage destinations with less familiar forays to discreet locations to reveal unexpected lessons of faith."
—The Catholic Register

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Previously published by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Paradise Regained

by John Milton

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Bible: 2nd Book of Moses (Exodus)

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Bible: 3rd Book of Moses(Leviticus)

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Bible: 4th Book of Moses (Numbers)

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Bible: 5th Book of Moses (Deuteronomy)

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Bible: Gospel According to Saint Matthew

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