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  • Holy Horrors

    An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness

    by James A. Haught ...
    When you think of saints, you envision stained-glass pictures of piety. But the truth can be horribly different. Consider Saint Pius V: As Grand Inquisitor, he sent Catholic troops to kill 2,000 Waldensian Protestants in southern Italy. After becoming pope, he sent Catholic troops to kill Huguenot Protestants in France. Pius also launched the final crusade against Muslims, sending a Christian ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Holy Horror

    The Bible and Fear in Movies

    by Steve A. Wiggins ...
    What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself.Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Horror and the Holy

    Wisdom-Teachings of the Monster Tale

    by Kirk Schneider ...
    Dr. Schneider draws upon a detailed and telling analysis of eleven well-known horror stories: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Invisible Man, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Birds, Forbidden Planet, Vertigo, and Alien. He finds that a spiritual understanding of life can be attained through horror. Classic horror st... ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Christ’s war

    Holiness, heroism and horror in Carolingian poetry, c.730–c.900 CE

    by Dr Matthew Bryan Gillis ...
    Series series Artes Liberales
    Christ’s war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the late ninth century during the Northmen’s attacks. It argues that the Franks understood their wars to be holy when their soldiers were without sin and, therefore, were holy themselves. God heard their prayers as they begged for divine aid, and he helped them overcome and ... Read more

    $91.49 USD

  • Holy Terrors

    by Arthur Machen ...
    Where the beautiful and the terrifying meet. A final testament to the hidden, sublime realities of the world.Holy Terrors is a major collection of works by Arthur Machen, compiled toward the end of his career. It brings together some of his most potent and disturbing short fiction, presenting a comprehensive look at his core philosophy: that the world is a fragile illusion veiling an ultimate ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors

    The Child Villains of Horror Film

    by Dominic Lennard ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Holy Horrors of Thy Heart

    by Scarlet Marie ...
    Holy Horrors of Thy Heart is brought to you by personal thoughts and emotions collaborating into my own personal literature of poems and events and things I have personally experienced and dealt with throughout my life and marriage that I feel many women experienced but might be too contrite or too scared to express. Hopefully this gives other women a relatable outlet. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Lost History of Christianity

    The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died

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  • In the Shadow of the Sword

    The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

    by Tom Holland ...
    A thrillingly panoramic historical account of the rise of Islam, hailed as “a veritable tour de force” (The Wall Street Journal), from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is History“Accessible but delightful . . . as fun to read as any thriller, and with far richer intellectual nutritional content.”—The Daily BeastWritten with verve and panache, In the Shadow of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • God's Battalions

    The Case for the Crusades

    by Rodney Stark ...
    The author of The Rise of Christianity reviews the history of the seven major crusades from 1095-1291 in this work of religious revisionist history.Distinguished and award-winning scholar Rodney Stark takes on the current vogue in liberal thinking to argue that, in fact, the Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, ... Read more

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  • God's Crucible

    Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215

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    From the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author, God’s Crucible brings to life “a furiously complex age” (New York Times Book Review).Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God’s Crucible is a bold portrait of Islamic Spain and the birth of modern Europe from one of our greatest historians. David Levering Lewis’s narrative, filled ... Read more

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