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仏教といえば、「悟りをめざす清らかな教え」というイメージを持っている人が多いと思います。ところが、仏教のはじまりは、そんなイメージとは正反対。あまりに人間臭く危険なドラマに満ちていました。

一五二五年，宗教改革の渦中，幼児洗礼を拒むキリスト教の一派が誕生した．異端として迫害されながらも聖書の教えを守り，非暴力を貫いた彼らの信仰は，戦争の止まない現代に生きる私たちに何を語りかけるのか．

From the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States. In Jesus and John Wayne, a book that has changed how countless Americans understand their faith, historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez showed how evangelicals...

How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile, persecution, and recurring plans for their annihilation. Many have attempted to explain this singular success as a result of divine intervention. In this engaging book, David N. Myers charts the...

From an award-winning historian, the story of World War II exiles and one famed Paris hotel. Since its birth in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived...

Blood for the Gods explores one of the darkest and most uncomfortable patterns in human history. Across continents and centuries, societies repeatedly killed in the name of belief, order, and necessity. From ancient rituals to modern systems, the methods changed, but the logic often remained the same. This book traces how ritual killing emerged from fear, became organized through religion and power, and slowly transformed rather than disappeared.

To say that the Christian Church has an "image problem" doesn't quite capture it. From the Crusades and the Inquisition to the racism and abuse present in today's Church—both in Catholic and Protestant traditions—the institution that Christ established on earth has a lot to answer for. But the Church has also had moments throughout history when it has been in tune with Jesus' teachings—from the rise of charity to the invention of hospitals. John Dickson gives an honest account of the mixed history of Christianity, the evil and the good.

As part of the major heritage interview program conducted in 2006 by the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) in collaboration with the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Roman Polanski recorded his account of his childhood in Poland during the war. It was while writing that he remembered asking his father, in 1973, to write his memoirs. He recently rediscovered this account, which he had never read before. It now forms the second part of this unique book, Letters to My Son by Ryszard Polanski.

A Catholic Classic—UPDATED AND EXPANDED! For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. Triumph offers an accessible, affirmative, and exciting entry into that history. Inside...

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