Religion/Spirituality

The New World of Islam

Lothrop Stoddard

The work is a sweeping historical survey of Islam’s rise, decline, and contemporary upheaval as seen from a…

The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses

Henry Drummond

The work is a devotional collection that grew out of a single, vivid evening in an English country house in…

Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The Summa Theologica, Prima Pars is the first portion of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s systematic theology,…

The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition

Ludwig Feuerbach

The work is a philosophical treatise that seeks to translate the Christian religion from its symbolic…

The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300

Walter James Hoffman

The work is a scholarly ethnographic report compiled for the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of…

Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John

William Alexander

The work is a scholarly commentary on the three Johannine epistles, written by the Irish bishop‑author…

Select works of Porphyry: Containing his four books on abstinence from animal food; his treatise on the Homeric cave of the nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the perception of intelligible natures. With an appendix, explaining the allegory of the wandering of Ulysses

Porphyry

This volume gathers four of Porphyry’s surviving treatises, each introduced by a scholarly preface that…

T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him

Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt); Talmage, Eleanor McCutcheon Collier

The work is an autobiographical memoir written by the celebrated preacher Thomas De Witt Talmage, presented…

Bible Readings for the Home Circle

This volume presents a systematic guide for family‑based Bible study, opening with a sweeping affirmation of…

Astrology: How to Make and Read Your Own Horoscope

Sepharial

The work is a compact handbook that sets out, in a systematic fashion, the principles and practice of…

Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley: To the year 1795, written by himself: with a continuation, to the time of his decease, by his son, Joseph Priestley: and observations on his writings, by Thomas Cooper, President Judge of the 4th. district of Pennsylvania: and the Rev. William Christie.

Joseph Priestley

The work is a three‑part memoir that combines the autobiographical sketch of Joseph Priest Priestley himself,…

St John Damascene on Holy Images (πρὸς τοὺς διαβάλλοντας τᾶς ἁγίας εἰκόνας). Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (κοίμησις)

Saint John of Damascus

This work is a two‑part collection by Saint John of Damascus, an eighth‑century theologian who defended the…

Shinto (the Way of the Gods)

W. G. Aston

The work is a scholarly survey of Shinto, the ancient Japanese cult of kami, written by William George Aston.

Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X.

Martin Luther

The work is a polemical treatise by Martin Luther, written in the early sixteenth‑century German Reformation…

Five Stages of Greek Religion

Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray’s Five Stages of Greek Religion is a scholarly essay collection that traces the evolution of…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08

This volume is a sprawling anthology that gathers together a wide variety of literary material from antiquity…

The Freedom of Science

Josef Donat

The work is a scholarly treatise on the relationship between scientific inquiry and Christian faith, written…

Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1

Benedictus de Spinoza

The work is a philosophical‑political essay in which Spinoza launches a sweeping critique of superstition,…

The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine

Various

The Catholic World, Vol. 15 gathers the scholarly essays and reviews that appeared in the magazine between…

Das Stunden-Buch

Rainer Maria Rilke

Das Stunden‑Buch ist ein Gedichtband, in dem Rainer Maria Rilke seine Stimme in einer ununterbrochenen…

Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination

Adams, John G. (John Greenleaf); Chapin, E. H.

This volume is a nineteenth‑century hymn collection assembled by John G. Adams and E. H.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

This volume is a scholarly overview of the Talmud, presented as a single, continuous essay that begins by…

The Sacred Tree; Or, the Tree in Religion and Myth

Mrs. J. H. Philpot

The Sacred Tree; or, the Tree in Religion and Myth is a scholarly‑type survey that sets out to collect,…

Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary

James Endell Tyler

This work is a theological treatise by James Endell Tyler that sets out to examine, from a scriptural and…