The Jains: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Jainism is often introduced through one wordahimsa, non-violence. But Paul Dundas’s The Jains shows how much larger the tradition is. Jainism combines…
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The Upanishads: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What are the oldest questions human beings have asked about consciousness, reality and the self? The Upanishads are not a single book…
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The Screwtape Letters: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters reverses the usual perspective of religious instruction. Instead of a human being receiving advice about temptation,…
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The Way of Zen: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Alan Watts’s The Way of Zen introduces Zen Buddhism by challenging the assumption that spiritual life is mainly about acquiring better beliefs.…
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Autobiography of a Yogi: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi is part spiritual autobiography, part pilgrimage and part introduction to Indian yogic traditions. Yogananda describes his…
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The Sabbath: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What if the most important part of time is not how much of it we have, but whether we can experience it…
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No god but God: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What happens when a major religious tradition is examined not only as a faith, but as a historical civilization shaped by revelation,…
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The Art of Happiness: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Most people say they want to be happy, yet we often organize life around goals that postpone happiness into an imaginary future:…
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces asks why stories separated by geography and centuries so often seem to contain familiar…
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A History of God: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
Few ideas have shaped human civilization as deeply as the idea of God. Karen Armstrong’s A History of God traces changing Jewish,…
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