Religion
Written by a leading sociologist, this fascinating and important book analyses what religion is, how it works and why it matters, using an approach combining…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
The Way of the Lover
Subtitled 'Sufism, Shamanism and the Spiritual Art of Love', this book takes the reader on a profound journey drawing on a wide variety of sources…… Read More »
Sufism
This is a new and seminal history of Islamic mysticism dealing with both the ascetic and mystical elements related to practice and teachings - also…… Read More »
A Matter of Life and Death
With a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this is a collection of 60 reflections on death and its implications, divided into five parts: personal encounters…… Read More »
Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure
Here is another book from a neo-Stoic perspective, partly as an antidote to self-help books and written in the spirit of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus…… Read More »
How to Die
Seneca (4 BC to 65 AD) speaks down the ages with his perennial reflections on the human condition and the inevitability of death. This is…… Read More »
A New Stoicism
There has been quite a revival of Stoicism in the last few years as a form of ethical naturalism. The author asks the interesting question…… Read More »
The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - A new translation and guide
Throughout the ages innumerable books have been written since the invention of the script. Many of which could save our lives, if we would live…… Read More »
An American Conscience – The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
I first read Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society in May 1979, and thereby hangs a tale. I was teaching in Edinburgh at the…… Read More »
Religion as Metaphor
This is a book that should be widely read, but sadly the publishers are pricing it out of the reach of ordinary readers – so…… Read More »