Religious Studies

Manifestation 2-in-1 brings together Manifestation Through the 12 Laws of the Universe and Manifestation Daily in one inspiring collection for anyone ready to understand the Universal Laws more deeply and apply them in everyday life. This 2-in-1 edition gives you both the foundation and the practice. First, you’ll explore the deeper meaning of the 12 Laws of the Universe and how they connect to manifestation, energy, belief, inspired action, synchronicity, abundance, and spiritual growth.

What does free speech really mean? How does our understanding of it differ around the world? Why does it divide us – and how can we find common ground? What free speech really means is hotly contested. Is it increasingly under attack in our democracies, or is it being weaponized by the...

You Believe in Eternity. So Why Does Life Still Feel This Heavy? You believe the right things. You’ve kept going, even when faith has felt more like a burden than a lifeline. But when life disappoints, you spiral. When the hard thing hits, you can’t find solid ground. And if you’re honest...

From an award-winning historian, the story of World War II exiles and one famed Paris hotel. Since its birth in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived...

Meet Black Madonna—Mother of Abundance, Holy Insurrectionist, Our Lady of F Around and Find Out This bold reclamation of the divine feminine offers a new vision of Black Madonna as a unifying figure of refuge, resistance, and renewal. When we are exhausted and burned out, Black Madonna invites...

Bhagavad-gita As It Is explores life's most enduring questions: Who am I? Why do I exist? How should I act in a world filled with uncertainty and conflict? Spoken on a battlefield at a moment of profound crisis, the Bhagavad-gita delivers timeless spiritual wisdom through a dialogue between Lord Krishna and the warrior Arjuna. As Arjuna stands paralyzed by doubt and moral confusion, Krishna guides him to a deeper understanding of the self, the purpose of action, and the principles of dharma, or the responsible action that leads to inner clarity and peace.

In 1946, a single English word appeared in the Bible for the first time. That word was homosexuals. Independent historian and researcher Kathy Baldock traces how this modern term—unknown to the biblical world—was inserted into 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, reshaping Christian theology, fracturing families, and fueling decades of church policy and culture wars that continue today.

How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the...

In this updated, expanded edition, starting with Freud’s “projection theory” of religion - that belief in God is merely a product of man's desire for security - Professor Vitz argues that psychoanalysis actually provides a more satisfying explanation for atheism. Disappointment in one's earthly father, whether through death, absence, or mistreatment, frequently leads to a rejection of God.

A recovered fin-de-siècle work on Satan, magic, the Church, and the forbidden life beneath official history. In 2020, a lyric from Jay Electronica’s “Ghost of Soulja Slim” sent Dennis Logan searching for the phrase Synagogue of Satan. What first appeared to belong to the familiar world of modern conspiracy literature led instead to a rare German text by Polish modernist writer Stanisław Przybyszewski: Die Synagoge des Satan, first published in 1897.

First time on audio! You Are Here: Keywords for Life Explorers is the magnum opus of our most important living Catholic author, David Steindl-Rast, the beloved Benedictine monk, living mystic, and pioneer of interfaith dialogue. Unlike anything he’s written before, You Are Here offers...

How did an entire nation's churches end up serving the regime that destroyed them?God's People tells the story of the Christian institutions that accommodated Adolf Hitler, and the Christ they reinvented to do it. In November 1933, twenty thousand members of the German Christian movement packed the Berlin Sportpalast to hear a schoolteacher demand that Christianity be purged along racial lines and rebuilt as a national religion. The movement was embarrassed. They got rid of the man. They kept the agenda.

Indispensable is a book bringing science and faith together to show the reader that you were built with a purpose. Written from a doctor's and teacher's perspective, the author takes complex subjects and breaks them down into an easy-to-understand format that focuses on the listener. The book's wide scope of information ranges from human anatomy and physiology to astronomy and cosmology, while linking related scripture and people from the Bible.

Las Leyes Universales de la VidaVivir en paz, propósito y conciencia¿Y si la vida no fuera aleatoria?¿Y si las dificultades, los patrones y las experiencias que enfrentas no fueran accidentes, sino el resultado de leyes invisibles que moldean silenciosamente tu realidad cada día?

The Bible calls us to live as disciples of Jesus in every area of our lives, including politics. But how do we live as faithful political disciples when politics has become so toxic? Too often, Scripture's political witness is reduced to a few verses to defend our partisan political team. For...

The Enuma Elish is one of the most important texts from the ancient world. In this Babylonian creation epic, Marduk defeats Tiamat, fashions heaven and earth from her divided body, and creates humanity from divine blood. More than myth, this poem became a theological declaration of imperial Babylon and a key witness to the religious world behind the Old Testament.

IIIT Books-In-Brief Series is a valuable collection of the Institute's key publications written in condensed form to give listeners a core understanding of the main contents of the original. Shaikh Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur is the most renowned Zaytuna Imam and one of the great Islamic scholars of the 20th century. The publication of this translation of Shaikh Ibn Ashur's Treatise on Maqasid al-Shari'ah is a breakthrough in studies on Islamic law in the English language.

A Catholic Classic—UPDATED AND EXPANDED! For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. Triumph offers an accessible, affirmative, and exciting entry into that history. Inside...

The signs of the times are everywhere, clearly pointing to the soon coming of Jesus Christ for the Church. This event is known as the "Rapture." It is the sudden evacuation of true followers of Christ from the earth before the time when God will pour out His wrath upon the wicked. The Blessed Hope of the church is the knowledge that we will not be on earth during that seven year time of tribulation in which half of the world perishes from war, disease, and famine.

IIIT Books-In-Brief Series is a valuable collection of the Institute’s key publications written in condensed form to give listeners a core understanding of the main contents of the original. With the end of the early Islamic period, Muslim scholars came to sense that a rift had begun to emerge between the teachings and principles of Islam and Muslims’ daily reality and practices.

You can argue about God forever, and not change your mind. Believers and non-believers often talk at cross purposes, both failing to grasp what is really going on when we argue about God. So where do we go when the facts run out? Philosophy. Braiding the thought of the Stoics, Spinoza, Kant and other leading philosophers together with meditations on religious experience, Christopher Insole takes us beyond the limits of reason to a place where we might find empathy and reverence for all of our fellow persons, each in the struggle to live a meaningful life.

Ontdek of wetenschap God kan uitsluiten door de theorieën van Darwin, Einstein en Hawking te verkennen, en krijg antwoorden op de grote vragen over mensheid, kosmos en bestaan.

Eight Seconds to Eternity isn’t written from a seminary classroom. It’s written from the arena. In a world where many avoid the book of Revelation because it feels confusing, intense, or overwhelming, professional barrel racer and bestselling author Marci Powell steps into it with clarity, grit, and unshakable faith.

Tunnelvisie: kind van de 'Maasbach-sekte' is het rauwe, razend spannende en onthullende verhaal van Danny Grootveld. Hij groeide op in de familie Maasbach, binnen de gesloten gemeenschap rond zijn charismatische maar controlerende oom, de tv-dominee die zijn jeugd vormde en zijn identiteit probeerde te breken.

Die Autorin beobachtet mit Sorge, wie weltweit in unterschiedlichen Religionsgemeinschaften zunehmend eine radikal-konservative Haltung aus den jeweiligen Schriften herausgelesen wird, weil die alten Texte wortwörtlich genommen werden. Anhand der beiden Weihnachtsgeschichten zeigt Sabine Häcker auf, dass die Bibel nur in ihrem historischen Kontext verstanden werden kann, denn die biblischen Erzählungen werfen Fragen auf: Warum erzählen Lukas und Matthäus so unterschiedlich von der Geburt Jesu? Wieso passen ihre Zeitangaben nicht zusammen?