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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGeorge Washington's Sacred Fire
Peter A. Lillback, Jerry Newcombe · 1,208 pages
Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Steven Waldman · 290 pages
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a "Christian nation." Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state throughout the land. None of these claims are true, argues Beliefnet
The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell · 254 pages
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, their deep-rooted idealism, their political and cultural relevance in today’s world, and their myriad oddities.In The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell travels once again through America’s past, this time to seventeenth-century New England. Fro
The Light and the Glory
Peter Marshall, David Manuel · 447 pages
Uses a Christian perspective to examine the history of America from the first voyage of Columbus to the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, with an emphasis on faithfulness to God's word.
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
David L. Holmes · 225 pages
The Invention of Air
Steven Johnson · 254 pages
Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America’s Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and friendship in the midst of sweeping historical change th
The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World
W. Cleon Skousen
Doctrine and Covenants
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith Jr. · 1,103 pages
Bloodline Of The Holy Grail
Laurence Gardner · 464 pages
Parallel Myths
J.F. Bierlein · 353 pages
An entertaining and thought-provoking look at the common threads woven through the world's greatest myths -- and the central role they have played through time.
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
Susan Jacoby · 256 pages
This book is a biography that restores America's foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism to our still contested twenty-first-century public square. From the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism comes a provocative portrait of Robert Green Ingersoll, known as "the Great Agnostic" and the foremost spokesman during America's Gilded Age for secularism and the
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs
Paul Koudounaris · 192 pages
An intriguing visual history of the veneration in European churches and monasteries of bejeweled and decorated skeletons Death has never looked so beautiful. The fully articulated skeleton of a female saint, dressed in an intricate costume of silk brocade and gold lace, withered fingers glittering with colorful rubies, emeralds, and pearls―this is only one of the specially photographed relics f
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
William Dalrymple · 496 pages
In the spring of A.D. 587, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile wor
The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters
O no Yasumaro · 611 pages
**Written by imperial command in the eighth century, The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters is Japan's classic of classics, the oldest connected literary work and the fundamental scripture of Shinto.** A more factual history called the Nihongi or Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) was completed in A.D. 720, but The Kojiki remains the better known, perhaps because of its special concern with the
Devotional culture in late medieval England and Europe
Stephen Kelly, Perry, Ryan (Medievalist) · 660 pages
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
Joseph Loconte · 235 pages
"The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis"--Amazon.com.
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
Richard Tarnas · 592 pages
From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Richard Tarnas explores the planetary correlations of epochal events like the French Revolution, the t
The Second Messiah
Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas · 384 pages
Cracking the Da Vinci Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Facts Behind Dan Brown's Bestselling Novel
Simon Cox · 160 pages