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| Peace of Mind: Words of Wisdom to Comfort and Inspire
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Alan Jacobs, ed.
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| Publisher: Watkins. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781906787585. Daedalus Item Code: 20327 |
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| "Perhaps the one quality, more than any other, that we human beings earnestly desire is peace of mind," posits mysticism scholar and poet Alan Jacobs. Here he offers an anthology of inspirational ... (Read More)
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| Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty
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Alan Jacobs, ed.
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| Publisher: Watkins. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781842931097. Daedalus Item Code: 31324 |
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| This anthology gathers 600 inspirational poems spanning four millennia of world literature, including translations from Sanskrit, Egyptian, Hindi, Persian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Homeric Greek. A ... (Read More)
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| Prayers in Code: Books of Hours from Renaissance France
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Martina Bagnoli, ed.
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| Publisher: Walters Art Museum. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780911886726. Daedalus Item Code: 30484 |
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| With 24 color reproductions and a half-dozen additional figures, this compact catalog from the Walters Art Museum discusses the miniature paintings and drawings found in a group of magnificently ... (Read More)
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| Prehistoric Belief: Shamans, Trance and the Afterlife
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Mike Williams.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752449210. Daedalus Item Code: 31342 |
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| A deeply researched yet readable analysis of the belief systems of the prehistoric people of Europe, this is an archaeological survey of the spread of humans from Africa, the rise of social groups, ... (Read More)
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| A Priest's Guide for the Great Festival: Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi
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Richard H. Davis.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195378528. Daedalus Item Code: 30763 |
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| The Mahotsavavidhi, a 12th-century Sanskrit text, provides detailed guidelines for a Saiva temple priest in performing a nine-day "great festival" for the god Siva. Its author, Aghorasiva, is ... (Read More)
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| The Proof of God: The Debate That Shaped Modern Belief
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Larry Witham.
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| Publisher: Atlas & Co. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780977743360. Daedalus Item Code: 11149 |
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| By turns history, biography, and philosophical inquiry, this compact volume follows one of the seminal arguments of Western religious belief across centuries. In 1078, Anselm of Bec produced what we ... (Read More)
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| Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead
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Peter Manseau.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805086522. Daedalus Item Code: 12565 |
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| The impulse to preserve and revere the body parts of the holy deceased has been a part of the human experience since the Buddha lost his baby teeth and John the Baptist lost his head, says Peter ... (Read More)
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| The Real Question Remains: Gurdjieff: A Living Call
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Henri Tracol.
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| Publisher: Morning Light. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781596750326. Daedalus Item Code: 24062 |
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| It would be fitting to say of Henri Tracol that throughout his life he called many sides of himself into action toward the "harmonious development" advocated by Russian spiritualist George Gurdjieff. ... (Read More)
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| Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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Alain de Botton.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307476821. Daedalus Item Code: 29383 |
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| What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? This provocative book from the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work argues that we ... (Read More)
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| The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
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Timothy Beal.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151013586. Daedalus Item Code: 30415 |
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| "In his well-received Biblical Literacy, [Timothy] Beal explored ways to think about Bible stories and how they have become ingrained in our culture. Here he discusses the Bible as a book and ... (Read More)
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