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  • Gandhi in a Canadian Context

    Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada

    Edited by Alex Damm ...
    Gandhi in a Canadian Context examines a range of intriguing and under-studied connections between India’s greatest nationalist leader, Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948), and facets of life in Canada, including Gandhi’s interest in and contact with Canada and Canadians early in the twentieth century, and the implications of Gandhi’s thinking on a range of issues in Canadian society today. This collection ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

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  • Heretics

    by GK Chesterton ...
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874  14 June 1936) was a poet, novelist, playwright, literary commentator, editor, biographer, journalist, orator and theologian. He was often dubbed as the “prince of paradox” for his light whimsical style that often addressed serious issues such as politics and religion. The latter was as a member and defender of the Christian faith and the former was shaped ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Tenth Parallel

    Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

    by Eliza Griswold ...
    A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the world's 2 billion Christians. Here, in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque

    Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • Ancient Religions, Modern Politics

    The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective

    by Michael A. Cook ...
    Why Islam is more political and fundamentalist than other religionsWhy does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions, Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • One Nation, Under Gods

    A New American History

    by Peter Manseau ...
    A groundbreaking new look at the story of America.At the heart of the nation's spiritual history are audacious and often violent scenes. But the Puritans and the shining city on the hill give us just one way to understand the United States. Rather than recite American history from a Christian vantage point, Peter Manseau proves that what really happened is worth a close, fresh look.Thomas ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • None of the Above

    How the Unaffiliated are Redefining Religion and Keeping Faith

    by Elie Mikhael Nasrallah ...
    The notion of redefining religion’s role in our lives is not an academic exercise. It is an urgent modern imperative. This book confronts all religious dogma. It challenges the idea and practice of the need for a middle man between man and God. It invites the reader to consider the modern rise of the “Nones”--the religiously unaffiliated--and to join this magnificent silent social tsunami. It ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

    by Voltaire, Nicholas Cronk ...
    Translated by John Fletcher ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?' Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It is also a highly entertaining book: this is no 'dictionary' in the ordinary sense, nor does it treat 'philosophy' in the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • My Way

    A Muslim Woman's Journey

    by Mona Siddiqui ...
    Polarized debates about 'Islam' and 'the West' are now so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be. The vast majority of Muslims do not wish to see Islam used as a divisive force within the largely secular societies in which they live. How then can Muslim stereotyping be challenged? Mona Siddiqui is one of the foremost Western authorities on the reconciliation of 21st-century ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Essays On Cultural Pluralism

    A Philosophical Approach To Interfaith Spirituality In The Age Of Science

    by Jamal Khwaja ...
    Ours are times when religion is systematically being used: unconsciously by some and deliberately by others, in the service of politics and personal gain, rather then spirituality. However, perceptive and honest minds among all religious communities view different religions as diverse “languages of the spirit”, each valid and nourishing in its own way. An impartial study of different religions ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads

    Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges

    Edited by Sohail H. Hashmi ...
    Surveying the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day, Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is the first book to investigate in depth the historical interaction among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas about when the use of force is justified. Grouped under the three labels of just war, holy war, and jihad, these ideas are explored throughout twenty chapters that ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Power of Tantra

    Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies

    by Hugh B. Urban ...
    In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock. For European colonizers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved example of the worst tendencies of the so-called 'Indian mind': a pathological mixture of sensuality ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD