Western Religion

Transform your commute into an enlightening journey through the historical roots of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Perfect for curious minds seeking objective understanding, this calm and straightforward audio experience demystifies the world's most influential faiths. Navigate complex...

Ifa is not fortune-telling. It is one of the world’s most profound systems of sacred wisdom—a Yoruba tradition of guidance, destiny, character, spiritual correction, and divine insight. Ifa Divination for Beginners gives readers a clear, respectful, and accessible introduction to this ancient path without reducing it to superstition, spectacle, or shallow spiritual shortcuts. Written for newcomers, this book explains the heart of Ifa in plain language while honoring its Yoruba roots, sacred structure, and living tradition. Inside, you’ll discover: The origins of Ifa within Yoruba ...

In this final volume of the series, John Strickland tells the story of Christendom’s most tumultuous century. As nihilism began to cast its menacing shadow on the eve of the First World War, a self-styled “antichrist” named Friedrich Nietzsche and an obstinately Christian Fyodor Dostoevsky both offered ominous visions of what the West would become if “God is dead” and any moral act thus becomes permissible. Though total warfare seemed to confirm such predictions, a project arose in its wake to rebuild utopia with secular ideologies that, in the case of Nazism, opened the abyss even further.

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

In Communism and the Conscience of the West, Sheen explains the problems with society stemming from socialism and communism, which continue to infect universities and political discourse today. This timeless book exposes communism’s defects, its attitude toward the family, the decline of historical liberalism, and the rise of the antireligious spirit that pervades our world.

Some things are worth checking for yourself. This is one of them. If you have spent any time near meditation, philosophy, or the contemplative end of almost any religion, you have probably run into the word nonduality. You may also have noticed how rarely anyone explains it. The books tend to arrive in Sanskrit, or in a voice so certain that it becomes difficult to ask a question, or with a teacher attached. This one is written differently, and it begins from an ordinary observation. Most of us carry a quiet assumption we have never once examined: that there is someone in here, behind the ...

Since September 11, 2001, the Western world has been preoccupied with Islam and its role in terrorism. Yet, public debate about the faith is polarized. One camp praises "the religion of peace", while the other claims all Muslims are terrorists. Canadian human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed believes both sides are dangerously wrong. In Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam, Yasmine speaks her truth as a woman born in the Western world yet raised in a fundamentalist Islamic home. Despite being a first-generation Canadian, she never felt at home in the West.

Albrecht Dieterich Explained: Ancient Magic, Mystery Religions, The Mithras Liturgy, Ritual Power, Greek Religion, and the Origins of Western Esoteric Thought introduces readers to one of the most influential yet often overlooked scholars in the history of religious studies. Albrecht Dieterich helped transform how scholars understand the ancient world by taking magical texts, mystery religions, and ritual practices seriously as historical sources. His groundbreaking research revealed a vibrant spiritual landscape where myth, ritual, and sacred language shaped the everyday religious ...

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.

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.

The Age of Paradise is the first of a projected four-volume history of Christendom, a civilization with a supporting culture that gave rise to what we now call the West. At a time of renewed interest in the future of Western culture, author John Strickland—an Orthodox scholar, professor, and priest—offers a vision rooted in the deep past of the first millennium. At the heart of his story is the early Church’s “culture of paradise”, an experience of the world in which the kingdom of heaven was tangible and familiar.

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

Originally delivered in 1962 for artists—and made available now for the first time in English—St. John Paul II's (Karol Wojtyla's) penetrating spiritual exercises on divine beauty and its reflection in our humanity—and the art it produces—remain as timely as ever. The retreat itself, of course, forms the heart of this attractive volume.