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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Truth Encounter	Anthony Pezzotta	Introduction: An encounter with God is an encounter with truth -- The word of truth -- The truth about salvation -- The truth about salvation, part I -- The truth about salvation, part II -- The tru…	OL10237470W
The gospel of Buddha	Paul Carus	Judging by the preface, a book that was welcomed by both Southern and Northern Buddhists. In the story we follow Gautama Buddha from his youth, to his quest for knowledge, to enlightenment, and ultim…	OL1105291W
After the Prophet	Lesley Hazleton	Narrative history at its most compelling, After the Prophet relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam.Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle o…	OL14921844W
The end of days	Gershom Gorenberg	In this work, journalist Gershom Gorenberg portrays a deadly mix of religious extremism, violence, and Mideast politics, as expressed in the struggle for the sacred center of Jerusalem. Known to Jews…	OL15138749W
Living Buddha, living Christ	Thích Nhất Hạnh	Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the cou…	OL15373820W
The bread of angels	Stephanie Saldana	A romantic memoir of a young woman's year in Damascus. In 2004, 27-year-old Stephanie Saldaña traveled to Syria on a Fulbright fellowship to study the role of the prophet Jesus in Islam. She was also…	OL15408612W
A history of Jewish-Muslim relations	Abdelwahab Meddeb	"This is the first encyclopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, the book fea…	OL17079332W
Soumission	Michel Houellebecq,Lorin Stein	It’s 2022. François is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. …	OL17106654W
I Am N	Voice of the Martyrs (Organization)	Yousef, whose mother threatened to kill him for having a Bible, now smuggles Bibles the way his family once smuggled drugs. After Parveen’s employer beats her for attending church, Parveen begins …	OL17588849W
The chance of salvation	Lincoln A. Mullen	The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, and yet Americans have often thought that people's faith determines their eternal destinies. The result is that Americans switch religions…	OL17635407W
The evolution of God	Wright, Robert	In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Throu…	OL18098196W
For the sake of heaven and earth	Irving Greenberg	A pioneer in the area of pluralism and interfaith relations, Rabbi Irving Greenberg has spent a lifetime working to overcome the history of hostility between Judaism and Christianity. This book is st…	OL1841542W
Torah and gospel	Philip J. Scharper	Papers delivered at a symposium held January 1965, at St. Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pa.	OL20542960W
The Old and New Testaments	James H. Charlesworth,Walter P. Weaver	How, if at all, is the New Testament related to the Old? Does the traditional view of the Old Testament as promise and the New Testament as fulfillment still hold? Why are religious services organize…	OL20603237W
Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th - 15th centuries)	John Tolan	The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of re…	OL20930343W
Christ and Bahá'ulláh	George Townshend	An Irish convert to Bahaism, a former Canon of Dublin, presents his belief that Baha'u'llah was the returned Christ prophesied in the Bible.	OL20944149W
The faith club	Suzanne Oliver,Priscilla Warner,Ranya Idliby	Traces how three American women of different faiths worked together to understand one another while identifying the connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, during which they openly disc…	OL20954065W
Partings	Hershel Shanks	When did Judaism and Christianity become two separate faiths? Had the process already begun in the decades following Jesus' crucifixion, or did it take centuries for the first serious and inexorable …	OL20957316W
Christian exegesis of the Qurʼān	J. Scott Bridger	Can Christians read biblical meaning into qur'ānic texts? Does this violate the intent of those passages? What about making positive reference to the Qur'ān in the context of an evangelistic presenta…	OL20974372W
The Jihad of Jesus	Dave Andrews	We are caught up in the cycle of so-called ''holy wars.'' In The Jihad Of Jesus, Dave Andrews argues that while this inter-communal conflict is endemic, it is not inevitable. Depending on our underst…	OL20974534W