Conoce la historia de las grandes religiones del mundo y sus principales ensenanzas a traves de sus textos sagrados, sus objetos de culto, su arquitectura y su arte. Descubre los origenes de las tradiciones culturales y de los dogmas religiosos clave, y examina las similitudes y diferencias de los credos antiguos y actuales. Escrita con claridad y sensibilidad, esta fascinante guia ilustrada ofrece informacion detallada sobre los principales sistemas...

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world. Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious traditions without watering down your own? In his most important book yet, widely acclaimed author and speaker Brian McLaren proposes a new faith alternative,...

Religion around the World: A Curious Kid's Guide to the World's Great Faiths explores the world's major religious traditions, making the traditions, beliefs, practices, and history of each accessible to kids ages 8-12--

In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality has a role today, and why science,...

In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. I