Religion/Spirituality

Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries

Annie Besant

Annie Besant’s Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries is a scholarly‑type treatise that seeks to…

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a philosophical essay that opens with a lyrical meditation on the relationship between humanity and…

India, Its Life and Thought

John P. Jones

John P. Jones’s India, Its Life and Thought is a scholarly survey of Indian society as seen through the eyes…

The Chautauqua Girls At Home

Pansy

The work is a domestic drama set among a circle of young women whose conversations revolve around faith,…

The Faith of Our Fathers

James Gibbons

James Gibbons’s The Faith of Our Fathers is a polemical work of Catholic apologetics first issued in 1876 and…

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

William James

The work is a scholarly series of twenty lectures that treat religion as a psychological phenomenon rather…

The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.

The work is a Middle‑English devotional poem that retells the biblical narratives of Genesis and Exodus in…

The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller

George Müller

The Life of Trust is a devotional journal that records George Müller’s inner struggles and outward movements…

The Ordinance of Covenanting

John Cunningham

The Ordinance of Covenanting is a theological treatise by John Cunningham that opens with a dense series of…

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present: Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce

P. C. Remondino

The work is a nineteenth‑century medical treatise that surveys the practice of circumcision from its earliest…

Libro della divina dottrina: Dialogo della divina provvidenza

Catherine, of Siena, Saint

Il Libro della divina dottrina è un dialogo mistico in cui la santa Caterina da Siena espone, con tono…

A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Albert Taylor Bledsoe’s work is a systematic philosophical treatise that sets out to defend the glory of an…

The Jewish State

Theodor Herzl

The work is a political pamphlet by Theodor Herzl, first issued in Vienna in 1896 as Der Judenstaat and later…

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

Crawford Howell Toy

This volume, the fourth in Crawford Howell Toy’s “Handbooks on the History of Religions,” offers a scholarly…

Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings

This volume is a sweeping anthology of ancient Egyptian writings, assembled to showcase the breadth of the…

The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Origen

This volume presents the second half of Origen’s extensive apologetic work, composed at the request of…

The Pursuit of God

A. W. Tozer

The Pursuit of God is a devotional theology written by A. W.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi

Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier’s Life of St. Francis of Assisi is a scholarly biography that weaves together documentary…

A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885

Cherágh Ali

This work is a scholarly apologetic treatise by Cherágh Ali, published in 1885, that sets out to demonstrate…

The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Clement, of Alexandria, Saint

This volume gathers the three principal works of Titus Flavius Clement, head of the second‑century…

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark

John William Burgon

The book is a scholarly defence of the final twelve verses of the Gospel of Mark, a passage whose…

India and the Indians

Edward Fenton Elwin

The work is a sprawling ethnographic study by Edward F. Elwin, a long‑time resident of the Poona district,…

Mexico and Its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

Robert Anderson Wilson