Religion: general

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything [9781843545743]

God Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates …

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Living with the Gods: 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs [9780241308295]

A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germ…

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In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy [9781472966148]

In the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. This brilliant piece of investigative w…

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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve [9781847922724]

Humans cannot live without stories. But one story has proved itself the most durable and hauntingly real of all time. The mythic tale of Adam and …

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Seven Types of Atheism [9780241199411]

A meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by one of Britain's leading philosophers Fo…

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A History of Judaism [9781846141553]

Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions. Despite the extraordinarily diverse forms it has taken, the Jewish people hav…

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Royal Books and Holy Bones: Essays in Medieval Christianity [9781472953230]

In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decl…

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Radicals [9781785150371]

From the author of The Dark Net In the last few years the world has changed in unexpected ways. The power of radical ideas and groups is growing.…

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The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry [9780593080399]

Known as the `four horsemen' of the New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of …

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The God Delusion [9781784161927]

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded a…

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A History of God [9780099273677]

The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggl…

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Atheist's Bible [9780715641361]

All thinking men are atheists , Ernest Hemingway famously wrote. True? Here are quips, quotes and questions from a distinguished assortment of geniuse…

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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason [9780743268097]

This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical t…

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The Puzzle of God [9780006281436]

Peter Vardy's much acclaimed introduction to the study of ideas about God - now revised and updated. A clear, well-written guide to philosophical thin…

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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve [9780099587224]

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times What is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us? What does it tell us ab…

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12 Stories of Christmas [9780718011963]

Experience the wonderment of Christmas with this endearing collection of original stories. Even though he's got 3.5 million copies of books in print, …

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30-Second Religion: The 50 most thought-provoking religious beliefs, each explained in half a minute [9781782405917]

30-Second Religion decants and demystifies the key beliefs, deities, origins, and iconography of the worlds major religions, denominations, and less w…

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A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion [9781472512772]

How should we understand and interpret the strange but familiar thing that we call religion ? What are the foundations of a methodical approach to th…

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A Brief History of the Crusades [9781841197661]

Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a…

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A Chronology of World Christianity [9780826496331]

Christianity has carried on down the centuries, and its doctrine has been regarded as unaffected by changes in cultural, intellectual, social and poli…

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