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The Amish, one of America's most intriguingly private, unique, and often misunderstood religious communities, have survived for 300 years! How has that happened? While much has been written on the Amish, little has been revealed about their history. This book brings together in one volume a thorough history of the Amish people. From their beginnings in Europe through their settlement in North America, the Amish have struggled to maintain their beliefs and traditions in often hostile settings.

In the same engaging style that has endeared him to listeners of Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Gunaratana delves deeply into each step of the Buddha's most profound teaching on bringing an end to suffering: the noble eightfold path. With generous and specific advice, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness offers skillful ways to handle anger, to find right livelihood, and to cultivate loving-friendliness in relationships with parents, children, and partners, as well as tools to overcome all the mental hindrances that prevent happiness.

"Sal a combatir sea cual fuere tu condición. Contribuye a la causa de Allah con tus bienes y lucha" (sura 9:41). "Yihad" es una palabra árabe que significa simplemente lucha, pero se suele interpretar por Guerra Santa. Por desgracia, hoy, está en boca de todo el mundo en esta sangrienta acepción. Hace catorce siglos el islam nacía bañado en sangre y al día de hoy no parece que esto haya cambiado mucho.

その山のふもとに生まれ育ち、少年のころから、あらゆる小路を幾度となく歩いては、様々な風景を目にしてきた、著者にとっての母なる山・比叡山。歴史を学んだのち、再び同じ路をたずね、峠を越え、川を渡りながら、仏教美術学者はあることに気づく。

自然観、無限と有限、対立と融合、自と他。さらには教育理念、国家観。そして生と死……。

A new, four-stage approach to the popular Buddhist practice known as loving-kindness meditation, with the aim of finding unconditional love in our own hearts, in our relationships, and in our perception of the world around us. The unconditional love that we all long for - in our own lives and in the world around us - can be awakened effectively with this unique approach to the Tibetan Buddhist practice of loving-kindness meditation.

In Onward Muslim Soldiers, the author of Islam Unveiled reveals why the threat of violent jihad is growing daily, despite America's recent victory in Iraq. Spencer uncovers the cause of global violence as he goes straight to Muslim sources.

Com base em questionamentos como esses, os autores criaram um dos mais populares cursos da Universidade Yale, em que discutem o sentido da existência humana e como podemos alinhar nossa vida prática com nossos princípios essenciais. O objetivo deste audiolivro é expandir essa discussão, apresentando argumentos e pontos de vista distintos – às vezes até opostos – para refletirmos sobre assuntos como vida e morte, bem e mal, sucesso e fracasso, ética e virtude, justiça e propósito.

Surviving the Dragon is the remarkable life story of Arjia Rinpoche, who was ordained as a reincarnate lama at the age of two and fled Tibet 46 years later. In his gripping memoir, Rinpoche relates the story of having been abandoned in his monastery as a young boy after witnessing the torture and arrest of his monastery family. In the years to come, Rinpoche survived under harsh Chinese rule, as he was forced into hard labor and endured continual public humiliation as part of Mao’s Communist "reeducation".

Breve Historia de la Mitología Griega nos ofrece un panorama completísimo de las deidades del mundo clásico. Fernando López Trujillo no se detiene en una enumeración de los Dioses Olímpicos y sus atributos, sino que primero nos hace ver la importancia rectora de la mitología en el mundo antiguo, para mostrar a continuación las apasionantes historias que pueblan esta mitología.

In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction of the New Atheists’s misrepresentations of the Christian past, countering their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.

A scientist and former evangelical argues that holding onto a belief in a literal, historical Adam has forced many Christians to reject science and become intellectually isolated from the modern world.

In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world’s oldest and greatest religions. Starting with a close examination of his own belief in Hinduism, he ranges far and wide in his study of the faith.

Aquí se encuentra el centro de toda filosofía y de cada filósofo o filósofa: en la búsqueda insaciable de la verdad. En este sentido podemos decir que Edith Stein era una gran filósofa. La búsqueda incansable de la verdad acuñó toda su vida y la entrega incondicional a esa verdad le dio su sentido y contenido propios.

During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit of God. He wrote all night, and when the train arrived at his destination, the rough draft was done. The depth of this book has made it an enduring favorite.

¿Qué tienen en común la caída del Imperio Romano, la creación de las primeras universidades y el auge del anticlericalismo en la Europa contemporánea? La Iglesia católica ha estado en el centro de algunos de los episodios más fascinantes y desconocidos de la historia. Desde los primeros concilios hasta la controversia de la Reforma, pasando por los secretos de los monasterios medievales y los desafíos del siglo XX, estas páginas te conducirán por momentos sorprendentes de la historia de la Iglesia católica.

Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces listeners to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.

"Maranata, descubriendo la profecía de las profecías", es una invitación a contemplar a Jesucristo en su faceta venidera y comprender su dramático plan para los últimos tiempos. Entre todas las profecías que encontramos en las Escrituras, la que más debemos esperar y anhelar es que veremos al Hijo de Dios volver físicamente a la tierra para reinar sobre todas las naciones. Desde la cruz hasta su regreso, hay un plan detallado por cientos de profecías bíblicas que hemos sido exhortados a no menospreciar.

Por muito tempo a deusa Perséfone tem sido representada como uma força eternamente dividida entre o mundo dos vivos e o mundo dos mortos; uma donzela cujo destino é controlado pela mãe, Deméter, deusa da colheita, e Hades, rei do mundo inferior. Ao menos, é isso que somos levados a acreditar... O caminho de Perséfone é um guia completo sobre a deusa, baseado em pesquisas históricas extensas. Ele também é uma jornada conduzida por Obsidiyana, sacerdotisa de Perséfone e bruxa ctônica, que nos leva da raiz dos cultos antigos a essa divindade até a devoção moderna na bruxaria.

Todo el mundo está de acuerdo en reconocer que la civilización occidental está en crisis: crisis de valores, crisis de recursos, crisis, en suma, de un sistema que parece abocado irremisiblemente a su disolución. El diagnóstico de René Guénon, principal representante de las doctrinas esotéricas en el siglo XX, se singulariza respecto a las numerosas interpretaciones que se han dado del fenómeno.