Religion Books

Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2)

John Morley

The present work closes a series of studies on the literary preparation for the French Revolution. It differs from the companion volumes on Voltaire and Rousseau, in being much more fully descriptive...

The Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra

Anonymous

Subhuti, if on the one hand, a daughter or son of a good family gives up her or his life in the morning as many times as there are grains of sand in the Ganges as an act of generosity, and gives as ma..

Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes

António Vieira

Father António Vieyra SJ was a Jesuit priest, Portuguese diplomat, orator, preacher, philosopher, writer, and member of the Royal Council to the King of Portugal...

The Philosophy of Despair

David Starr Jordan

Today is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole, we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is our tim..

The Calling of Dan Matthews

Harold Bell Wright

This story began in the Ozark Mountains. It follows the trail that is nobody knows how old. But mostly this story happened in Corinth, a town of the middle class in a Middle Western state.There is not..

Ojennusnuora

Epictetus

Ojennusnuora is a book on ethics written by Epictetus, a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to Nicopolis..

The Making of Religion

Andrew Lang

The Making of Religion is a spiritualism book written by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. Preface by the author:By the n..

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

David Hume

In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, philosopher David Hume examines whether belief in God can be rational. The work takes the form of a debate between three characters: Cleanthes, who argues tha..