The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

10 best books like The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance (Dorothee Sölle): Our Man in Havana, The Prince of Tides, The Canterbury Tales, Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, The Divine Comedy, Misty of Chincoteague, Faceless Killers, Holy Bible: The New King James Version, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

Our Man in Havana

Author	Graham Greene
ISBN	0140184937

Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,'...

The Prince of Tides

Author	Pat Conroy
ISBN	0553381547

PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary...

The Canterbury Tales

Author	Geoffrey Chaucer
ISBN	0140424385

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions...

Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography

Author	Mark Mathabane
ISBN	0684848287

The Classic Story of Life in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness...

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Author	David Wallace-Wells
ISBN	0525576703

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...

The Divine Comedy

Author	Dante Alighieri
ISBN	0679433139

The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory...

Misty of Chincoteague

Author	Marguerite Henry
ISBN	1416927832

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Among them is the most mysterious of all, Phantom, a rarely seen mare that eludes all efforts to capture her--that is, until a young boy and girl lay eyes on her and determine that they can't live without her....

Faceless Killers

Author	Henning Mankell
ISBN	1400031575

It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word...

Holy Bible: The New King James Version

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0718015592

Enhance your time reading and exploring God's Word. Experience a whole new level of visual comfort and biblical study with Thomas Nelson's "NKJV Personal Size Giant Print End-of-Verse Reference Bible." This Bible is filled with references and study aids to strengthen your Bible reading. Plus, it...

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

Author	Barbara Brown Taylor
ISBN	0062406582

The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...

The Silent Land

Author	Graham Joyce
ISBN	0385533802

When Jake and Zoe are buried under a flash avalanche while skiing in the French Pyrenees, they miraculously dig their way out from under the snow--only to discover the world they knew has been overtaken by an eerie and absolute silence. With their phones cut off, and the village evacuated of every living...

Jesus and the Disinherited

Author	Howard Thurman
ISBN	0807010294

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900–81) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution...

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Author	Leslie Jamison
ISBN	0316259616

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams, an exploration of addiction, and the stories we tell about it, that reinvents the traditional recovery memoir.

With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage,...

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Author	Richard Rohr
ISBN	0470907754

A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...

God: A Human History

Author

Reza Aslan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God.

In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth...

Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

Author	Diana Butler Bass
ISBN	0062659510

The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle.

If gratitude is good, why is it so hard to do? In Grateful, Diana Butler Bass untangles our conflicting understandings of gratitude and sets the table for a renewed practice of giving thanks.

We...

On Religion

Author

John D. Caputo

On Religion is a thrilling and accessible exploration of religion faith today. If God is dead, why is religion back? Digging up the roots of all things religious, John D. Caputo inspects them with clarity and style. Along the way, some fascinating questions crop up: What do I love when I love my God? What...

Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today

Author	John Shelby Spong
ISBN	0062641298

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, bestselling author and controversial bishop and teacher John Shelby Spong delivers twelve forward-thinking theses to spark a new reformation to reinvigorate Christianity and ensure its future.

At...

Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I (The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion Book 2)

Author

David Fitzgerald

About the book:
David Fitzgerald’s award-winning 2010 book Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All pointed out the top ten fatal flaws of Christianity’s origin story. Now, Jesus: Mything in Action presents the most compelling new findings in Jesus Myth theory and...

Dancing with Words: Storytelling as Legacy, Culture, and Faith

Author	Ray Buckley
ISBN	0881774073

Jesus built relationships with people through simple, clear stories. And we are people of the story, seeking to name and share our stories in nearly everything we do. Dancing With Words provides help for all church leaders--both clergy and lay--to explore the history and importance of storytelling...

Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. II (The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion Book 3)

Author

David Fitzgerald

Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. III (The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion Book 4)

Author

David Fitzgerald

Coming Back to Earth: From Gods, to God, to Gaia

Author	Lloyd Geering
ISBN	1598150162

According to Lloyd Geering the doctrines of Incarnation and Trinity, which began as attempts to reflect the indwelling of God in human beings, were soon distorted to proclaim the reality of a sacred realm in the heavens. But the collapse of supernaturalism, he says, has produced a new and different...

Precarious Japan

Author	Anne Allison
ISBN	0822355620

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic...

Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular

Author	Midori Yamamura
ISBN	0262029472

Yayoi Kusama is the most famous artist to emerge from Japan in the period following World War II. Part of a burgeoning international art scene in the early 1960s, she exhibited in New York with Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, and other Pop and Minimalist luminaries, and in Europe with the Dutch...

Yayoi Kusama

Author	Laura J. Hoptman
ISBN	0714839205

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has pursued her principal themes of infinity, self-image, sexuality and compulsive repetition since she took the New York art world by storm in the late 1950s with her Infinity Nets -- heroically-scaled paintings covered in endlessly repeating net-like patterns, which...

Traditional Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements and Forms

Author	Mira Locher
ISBN	4805309806

Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. Intricate carved wood transoms and precisely woven tatami mats—each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story. In Traditional Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these stories encompasses the particular...

Beautiful World Japan

Author	Lonely Planet
ISBN	1788682998

Delve inside the myriad landscapes of Japan with this stunning collection of photographs and discover the nations extraordinary diversity of places, people and experiences from moments in awe-inspiring cities to quiet escapes in remote, exotic corners.

Beautiful World Japan ...

Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

Author	Roger J. Davies
ISBN	4805311630

Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and remarkably readable journey through Japan's cultural history.

This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview...

Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women

Author

Akasha Gloria Hull

• A celebration of the journey of African-American women toward a new spirituality grounded in social awareness, black American tradition, metaphysics, and heightened creativity.

• Features illuminating insights from Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Lucille Clifton, Dolores...