Zealot

• Author : Reza Aslan
• Publisher : Random House
• Release Date : 2013-07-16
• ISBN : 9780679603535

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.” The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of

• Author : Jo Thornely
• Publisher : Hachette Australia
• Release Date : 2020-07-21
• ISBN : 0733640508

'a smart, daring and refreshing book' - Weekend Australian 'deliciously sinister' - Herald Sun Why would anyone join a cult? Maybe they're unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they're disappointed with their lives and want to find something bigger or holier that makes sense of this confusing, chaotic and dangerous world. Or maybe they just want to give themselves the best possible chance of having sex with aliens. Whatever the reason, once people

• Author : Swanee Hunt
• Publisher : Duke University Press
• Release Date : 2006-10-04
• ISBN : 0822338750

An autobiography by Swanee Hunt, daughter of the legendary oil magnate H. L. Hunt, Bill Clinton's Ambassador to Austria, and internationally renowned philanthropist.

• Author : Arie Perliger
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release Date : 2020-08-18
• ISBN : 9780231552097

In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by right-wing ideologies. The need to understand the nature and danger of far-right violence is greater than ever. In American Zealots, Arie Perliger provides a wide-ranging and rigorously researched overview of

• Author : Daniel Koehler
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2021-11-30
• ISBN : 9781108842945

Explore the world of radicalization through the stories of those who switched between extreme political or religious ideologies.

• Author : H. W. Brands
• Publisher : Anchor
• Release Date : 2021-10
• ISBN : 9780525563457

"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary to destroy slavery.

• Author : Amos Oz
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Release Date : 2018-11-13
• ISBN : 9781328987563

The acclaimed author presents “three passionate lectures about the state of politics in Israel” in this “humorous, mournful, enraged, and uplifting” volume (Kirkus). A National Jewish Book Award Finalist Israeli author Amos Oz has won numerous awards for his novels capturing the cultural and political complexities of his country, including the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award. But these essays on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish

• Author : Donna Lettow
• Publisher : Aspect
• Release Date : 2009-09-26
• ISBN : 9780446565646

Duncan MacLeod, member of an age-old race of immortal beings, is in Paris helping a friend organize a museum exhibit of ancient cultures destroyed by the Romans. While unwrapping a priceless scroll of the Torah, Duncan remembers Avram Mordecai, a young Immortal who was determined to see the Romans defeated and the lands of Israel returned to the Hebrews. When Duncan meets Maral, a Palestinian delegate to the Arab-Israeli peace talks, he falls irrevocably in love. But as the tense

• Author : Reza Aslan
• Publisher : Random House
• Release Date : 2017-11-07
• ISBN : 9780553394733

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large. In layered prose and with thoughtful,

• Author : Judith Shulevitz
• Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Release Date : 2011-04-05
• ISBN : 9780812971736

What is the Sabbath, anyway? The holy day of rest? The first effort to protect the rights of workers? A smart way to manage stress in a world in which computers never get turned off and work never comes to an end? Or simply an oppressive, outmoded rite? In The Sabbath World, Judith Shulevitz explores the Jewish and Christian day of rest, from its origins in the ancient world to its complicated observance in the modern one. Braiding ideas together

• Author : Christopher Priest
• Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
• Release Date : 2021-06-23
• ISBN : 9781302938413

Collects U.S.Agent (2020) #1-5. The Super-Soldier you love to hate! John Walker, the one-time Captain America and former U.S.Agent, has been stripped of his official status and is now operating as an independent government contractor protecting covert interests. Now Walker’s latest security detail draws him into a conflict between a small town and the corporate giant trying to destroy it. Along the way, Walker acquires a new partner and a new enemy — while being haunted by

• Author : G. K. Johnson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2020-03-11
• ISBN : 1951084276

"Comradery goes awry. Restless young men are separated in the political angst of Roman rule over Judea. One seeks vengeance to satiate his demons. The other is taken into the underbelly of Holy Jerusalem"--

• Author : Anne Huijbers
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release Date : 2018-01-22
• ISBN : 9783110540291

Zealots for souls draws attention to the impact of the Observant reforms within the Order of Preachers, and ambitiously stirs up a broad scope of questions pertaining to the institutional narratives produced within the order between c. 1388 and 1517. Through the narratives and the forms of remembrance they fostered, the author traces the development of contemporary characteristics of the Dominican self-understanding. The book shows the fluid boundaries between the genres (order chronicles, convent chronicles, collective biographies), highlights the interplay between the

• Author : Braxton DeGarmo
• Publisher : Christen Haus Publishing
• Release Date : 2016-02-16
• ISBN : 9781943509225

Who is trying to eliminate the British Royal Family? And why? After all, the monarchy is largely ceremonial and symbolic. What does the Stone of Destiny have to do with an ancient Biblical promise? Where is the Throne of David? God promised David that someone would sit on his throne throughout eternity. It’s that earthly throne that Christ will claim upon His return. And yet, where did it go after King Zedekiah was overthrown and exiled to Babylon in 585

• Author : Oliver Thomson
• Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
• Release Date : 2018-07-15
• ISBN : 9781445677965

A page-turning account of often misunderstood events which draws attention to the bloodshed caused by religious extremism in Britain's history.