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81) The forevers
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Hot Key Books
Description
Follows the changing relationships and ethics of a group of seventeen-year-old teenagers as they prepare for the Earth to be destroyed by an asteroid.
83) Cults: coercion and control : the world's most notorious cults (and the people who escaped them)
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Publisher
Summersdale
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Belief system or brainwashing? Captivated or captive? Community or cult? Uncover stories of the world's most infamous cults in this true crime compendium. Filled with stories of notorious cults, this book details their origins, beliefs, leaders, followers and victims, and uncovers the unthinkable horrors hidden by these 'utopian' societies.
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Profile Books
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Kenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series 'Civilisation' is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. 2018 sees an ambitious BBC re-make, embracing global civilisations and exploring different themes in the universal histories of art and culture. In this book, Mary Beard investigates two aspects of what it means to...
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Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2025
Description
When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: a worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But quickly it became clear that Hindu 'idolatry' was far more complex than white men's stereotypes allowed, and that Hindus had little desire to convert....
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Watkins
Pub. Date
2009
Description
This title is a revealing insight into what happened during Jesus' 'missing years'. It reviews all the evidence for this legend impartially and addresses questions about whether Jesus ever went to India or Tibet, whether Notovitch was a fraud, and whether the Aquarian Gospel is authentic or not.
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Georgetown University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
This title explores how evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revoutionary consequences for Christianity. In an evolutionary perspective the incarnation involved God entering the evolving human species to help it imitate the trinitarian altruism in whose image it was created.
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Penguin Life
Pub. Date
2023
Description
As a vicar, Kate is often greeted with the phrase 'I'm not religious, but I love that hymn', or 'I want a church wedding', but the truth is, having faith isn't an all-or-nothing situation and we all deserve to enjoy the parts that bring us comfort. In this book, Kate reveals the surprising truth about what faith means to her and how, ultimately, it can make us all happy. Kate is not your average vicar, in fact, she says herself that believing in the...
91) The serpent king
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Publisher
Andersen Pr
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Three teenagers deal with their individual family and personal circumstances during their last year of high school.
92) The face of God
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Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Atheist culture involves a turning away from God. Here, Scruton shows how self destructive this is for us and our culture. Starting with the so-called scientific world view, Scruton argues that this is the real source of our current doubts about belief in God.
95) Silence
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Picador
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A Japanese Catholic, Endo tells the story of two 17th century missionaries attempting to shore up the oppressed Japanese Christian movement. Father Rodrigues has come to Japan to find the truth behind unthinkable rumours that his famous teacher Ferreira has renounced his faith.
98) In god we doubt
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Television and radio broadcaster John Humphrys takes us along the spiritual road he himself has travelled. He was brought up a Christian and prayed every day of his life until his growing doubts finally began to overwhelm his faith.
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SCM Press
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Beginning with a 'Street Nativity Play' that didn't end as planned, and finishing with an open-ended conversation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, 'Being Interrupted' locates an institutionally-anxious Church of England within the wider contexts of divisions of race and class in 'the ruins of empire', alongside ongoing gender inequalities, the marginalization of children, and catastrophic ecological breakdown. In the midst of this bleak picture,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The UK's parish churches, chapels, cathedrals, convents, abbeys and monasteries, spanning 1600 years, are a spectacularly rich but often overlooked heritage. Many are visited for their architectural and aesthetic qualities - they make up 45% of all Grade 1 listed buildings in the country - but rarely is the deeper historical story that they tell explored and joined up into a single narrative in our sceptical, secular times. This book tells that story...