The Religions Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$50.00 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
This is an innovative and accessible guide to the world's religions. The Religions Book clearly explains the key concepts behind the earliest religious beliefs right up to the world's newest faiths, getting to the heart of what it means to believe. Principles of the five main world religions - Hinduism, ...Show more
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
$32.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion | Reading Level: very good
In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major r ...Show more
Geography of Religion by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
$74.99 NZD
$87.99 (14% off)
Category: Bibles & Religion
As violence continues in the Middle East, understanding history - and especially the history of religion - is imperative to understanding our world today. This timely and elegant volume does just that by combining stunning images, maps, and commentary by experts. Geography of Religion is an invitation t ...Show more
NIV Pocket Bible by New International Version
$49.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion | Series: New International Version
A stylish and durable pocket-sized Bible with a contemporary and distinctive grey and orange colourway.
The Aleppo Codex: the True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible by Matti Friedman
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a thrilling story about a book that meant everything. This true-life detective story unveils the journey of a sacred text-the tenth-century annotated bible know as the Aleppo Codex-from its hiding place in a Syrian synagogue to the newly founde ...Show more
Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack by Rupert Shortt
$36.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion | Reading Level: good
The aim of this book is twofold: One is to counter the huge weight of column inches being spent on the perceived, and actual, persecution of Islam. The second is to turn up the volume on the side of Christians rather than Atheists (a position which has been underpinned so vociferously by Dawkins et al i ...Show more
Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325 by Geza Vermes
$30.00 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
Geza Vermes, translator and editor of "The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls" and worldwide expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the ...Show more
Buton's History of Buddhism.. by Buton Rinchen Drup
$70.00 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
This 14th century lively history introduces basic Buddhism as practiced throughout India and Tibet and describes the process of entering the Buddhist path through study and reflection. In the first chapter, we read about the structure of Buddhist education and the range of its subjects, and we're treate ...Show more
The Brick Bible: The Complete Set by Brendan Powell Smith
$47.99 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
The Brick Bible series has taken the world by storm, and now, for the first time, Brendan Powell Smith's visually striking The Brick Bible: A New Spin on the Old Testament and The Brick Bible: The New Testament are available in a beautiful hardcover box set. With over two thousand color photographs depi ...Show more
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BCE - 1492CE by Simon Schama
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
It is a story like no other- an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes ...Show more
The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis by Garry Wills
$37.00 NZD
Category: Bibles & Religion
Garry Wills, the prizewinning historian, argues that changes have been the evidence of life in the Catholic Church. It has often changed, sometimes with bad consequences, more often with good. In this brilliant and incisive study, he gives seven examples of deep and serious changes that have taken place ...Show more