Religion & Mysticism (comparative & cross-cultural)

A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age

This new edition of The Eye of the Heart, one of perennialist author Frithjof Schuons earliest works, features a fully revised translation from the French original as well as over 50 pages of new material, including previously unpublished selections from the authors letters and other private writings.

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From the bestselling author ofWaking UpandThe End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often controversial podcast

Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations. Sam Harris

A smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven.

What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there?

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries. Its sole reliance on reason and empirical data gives it an air of objectivity that has conferred upon it an almost unquestioning authority.