Western Religion

In this first book of The Complete Heretic's Guide to World Religion series, historian and award-winning atheist author Dave Fitzgerald takes us behind the Salt Lake curtain for a glimpse at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and answers your questions: Where did this multi-billion dollar tax-exempt corporation come from? Did Joseph Smith really sleep with all those women? Are the Mormons going to take over the whole world, and if so, is there any way to stop them? But that's not all!

 A History of Western Philosophy and Theology is the fruit of John Frame's 45 years of teaching philosophical subjects. No other survey of the history of Western thought offers the same invigorating blend of expositional clarity, critical insight, and biblical wisdom. 

A spinster teacher...a grieving widower...a marriage of convenience and a second chance with the man she's always loved. When Samuel Walker proposes a marriage of convenience to Rose Hatfieldso soon after the death of his wife, she knows he doesn't love her. She's loved him since their school days. Those long-suppressed feelings spring to life as she marries him. She must sell her childhood home, quit her teaching job, and move to a new city. Marrying Rose is harder than Samuel expected, especially with the shadow of his deceased wife everywhere in his life. And he has two young children to...

Western civilization has given us modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of law, a sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts we take for granted.

The West and Islam - the sword and scimitar - have clashed since the 17th century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Roman emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a centuries-long jihad on Christendom. Sword and Scimitar chronicles the decisive battles that arose from this ages-old Islamic jihad, beginning with the first major Islamic attack on Christian land in 636.

Patience Cavanaugh has lost hope in romance. The man she yearned to marry is dead, and her dreams are gone with him. Now she is consumed with restoring a dilapidated boardinghouse in order to support herself. Despite Patience's desire for solitude, Jedediah Jones, the local marshal with a reputation for hanging criminals, becomes an ever-looming part of her life.

The Age of Voltaire, the ninth volume of The Story of Civilization, is an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the 18th century.

In Islam, Israel and the West, Danny Burmawi makes sure you get Islam right. Writing as a former Muslim who left the Middle East for freedom in the West, Burmawi exposes what Islam truly is: not simply a private religion, but a political-theological system with global ambitions.

Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy. In this 1961 classic, Watts demonstrates his deep understanding of both Western psychotherapy and the Eastern spiritual philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta...

The Hidden Lamp is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In this audio, we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road.

You'll get FOUR full-length novels in one boxed set, As each woman arrives in town to marry her mail-order beau, she gets drawn into the mayhem. Through every trial, however, the brides’ new husbands stand by their side. Tiny Twin Creeks’, California, has a mystery! When the town’s brand-new mail order brides stumble upon the pieces to an ancient treasure map, the brides suddenly find more than they bargained for in the way of heart-pounding adventure and life-threatening excitement. It will take a lot to solve the mystery—but whatever the treasure turns out to be in the end, the ...

'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with religious fundamentalism' Sunday Times 'Andrew Doyle has written a masterful broadside against the woke that will also discomfit the anti-woke, proposing to both the radical notion that rather than...

The Magus: Kundalini and the Golden Dawn is the culmination of my spiritual journey through the Western Mystery Tradition after experiencing a full and sustained Kundalini awakening. Once I joined a secret and esoteric school called the Golden Dawn, I was introduced to Ceremonial Magick—a Spiritual Alchemy practice geared towards Chakra tuning and cleansing—whose ultimate purpose is personal transformation and Enlightenment.

What if the "missing books of the Bible" were not a conspiracy to fear, but a history to understand? If you have searched for the Ethiopian Bible online, you have likely found hype, warnings, and dramatic claims about forbidden books, Enoch, fallen angels, and hidden truth. This audiobook gives curious listeners a calm, clear guide to one of the most fascinating and misunderstood subjects in biblical history.

After escaping a forced marriage and enduring brutal punishment for converting from Islam to Christianity, Sabatina James shares her extraordinary journey from a devout Muslim upbringing to a life marked by persecution, exile, and unwavering faith. The Price of Love offers an unflinching look at the high cost of apostasy, the rise of radical Islam, and the silence that often surrounds both.

For nearly two thousand years, the ancient mystery schools preserved one of the most sophisticated traditions of inner transformation the Western world has produced. Eleusis ran continuously for nearly two millennia. Pythagoras founded a disciplined community whose influence shaped the future of philosophy. The Mithraic cult spread across the Roman Empire and left behind hundreds of identifiable temples, inscriptions, and initiatory images. Behind these institutions was a shared conviction: real knowledge was not merely information. It was transformation. The institutions ended. The work ...

If you have ever wondered exactly how we got from the Christian society of the early centuries, united in its faithfulness to apostolic tradition, to the fragmented and secular state of the West today, The Age of Division will answer all your questions and more. In this second of a four-volume cultural history of Christendom, author John Strickland applies insights from the Orthodox Church to trace the decline and disintegration of both East and West after the momentous but often neglected Great Schism.

4 Benefits of SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY GRIT: THE TEEN PROTOCOLS1. Hardwire an Unshakeable Identity in a "Glitchy" World. In a digital age where social media algorithms and "trending truths" try to hack your self-worth, this book provides the ultimate system restore. You will discover your Imago Dei Signature—the divine watermark that proves you aren't a cosmic accident or a "User ID," but a masterpiece designed by the Architect with a specific, un-deletable purpose. 2. Install a "Deception-Proof" Internal Firewall. Tired of feeling confused by "cancel culture" or the endless "your truth" malware?

You’ve heard the word Vodun. You’ve seen it misused in films, headlines, and half-true stories. But you’ve likely never been shown what it actually is. This book changes that. An Introductory Guide to Vodun invites you into one of the world’s oldest and most enduring spiritual traditions—one built not on fear or fantasy, but on ethics, ancestry, balance, and responsibility. It strips away myth and replaces it with meaning. And it does so with clarity that welcomes beginners without oversimplifying what matters. Vodun is not a relic of the past. It is a living system that continues...

For Protestants or Catholics seeking to understand Eastern Orthodoxy, the Cross is a good place to start. In the West a multitude of different views sprang up over the last millennium, but Orthodox Christian beliefs have remained unchanged. The contrast between those views is suggested by the two images on the book's cover, showing how differently the meaning of the Cross was understood, East and West.