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Books : Religion & Spirituality : Christianity : Reference

• Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture

  Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright

  
  
   

• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Wordsworth Reference)

  Sir James George Frazer

  
  
   

• The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford Paperback Reference)

  David Hugh Farmer

  
  
   

• A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels

  Gustav Davidson

  
  
   

• The Nag Hammadi Library in English

  James Robinson

  
  The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophical texts gathered and translated into Coptic by fourth-century Gnostic Christians. These texts have since been translated into English by dozens of highly reputable experts. First published in 1978, this is the revised 1988 edition, supported by illuminating introductions to each document. The library itself is a diverse collection of texts that the Gnostics considered to be related to their heretical philosophy in some way. There are 45 separate titles, including a Coptic translation from the Greek of two well-known books: The Gospel of Thomas attributed to Jesus's brother Judas, and Plato's Republic. The word "gnosis" is defined as "the immediate knowledge of spiritual truth", thus this doomed radical sect believed in being here now, in withdrawing from the contamination of society and materiality, and that heaven is an internal state, not some place above the clouds. That this collection has come back into the light of day at this historical juncture is more than likely no coincidence. --P. Randall Cohan
  
   

• Religion in Britain Since 1945: Believing without Belonging: Believing Without Belonging (Making Contemporary Britain)

  Grace Davie

  
  
   

• Who Wrote the Bible?

  Richard Elliott Friedman

  
  
   

• The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

  Huston Smith

  
  
   

• The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

  Mircea Eliade

  
  
   

• The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics (Cambridge Companions to Religion)

  
  
   

• Complete Idiot's Guide to World Religions (Complete Idiot's Guide)

  Brandon Toropov

  
  
   

• The Strongest NIV Exhaustive Concordance (Strongest Strong's) (Strongest Strong's)

  Edward W. Goodrick, John R. Kohlenberger

  
  
   

• Studying Local Churches

  Helen Cameron, Philip J. Richter, Douglas Davies

  
  
   

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford Paperback Reference)

  
  
   

• Islam (The Basics)

  Colin Turner

  
  
   

• Basics of Biblical Greek: Workbook

  William D. Mounce

  
  
   

• The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

  
  
   

• Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar

  William D. Mounce

  
  
   

• Vine's Expository Dictionary of the Old & New Testament Words (Nelson's Super Value)

  W. E. Vine

  
  
   

• The New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions (Penguin Reference Books)