Essence of Happiness by The Dalai Lama

$20.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

ESV Anglicised Pew Bible (Blue Colour) by HarperCollins Publis

$35.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

A new Pew Bible using the ESV translation, in British English, with a large typeface and lightweight design, with classic blue cover The ESV Anglicised Pew Bible is a new edition of the world's fastest-growing translation.Its durable hardcover format, high-quality Bible paper and clear typeface, combin ed with a lightweight format make it perfect for use in church.Includes:- British English text- Double-column, paragraph formatThis edition also includes 65 responsive readings reflecting major Biblical themes.Perfect for use by a congregation.(Also available in Black and Burgundy) ...Show more

Huia Come Home by Jay Ruka

$34.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

Once the sacred guardian of New Zealand's native forests, the huia was a symbol of the land's unique beauty and spirituality. The rare bird's tragic extinction in the early 1900s represents a shot to the heart of Aotearoa and is a potent metaphor for a country's conflicted history. Using the story of th e untimely extinction of the huia, Jay Ruka offers a fresh perspective on the narrative of Aotearoa; a tale of two cultures, warring worldviews, and the things we lost in translation. Revisiting the early missionaries, the transformative message of the gospel and the cultural missteps of the Treaty of Waitangi, Huia Come Home invites us to reconnect with the unique story offered by the indigenous Maori lens. ...Show more

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Desmond Tutu; Douglas Carlton Abrams; Dalai Lama XIV

$37.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

I want to wish all of you joy-because there is no better gift.Two spiritual masters, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, share their wisdom in this uplifting book. I promise you, it?s the best $26 you can spend.' Oprah WinfreyNobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships - or, as they would say, because of them - they are two of the most joyful people on the planet. In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu travelled to the Dalai Lama?s home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness?s eightieth birthday and to create this book as a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question- how do we find joy in the face of life?s inevitable suffering? They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our times and revealed how to live a life brimming with joy. This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecedented week together, from the first embrace to the final goodbye. ...Show more

Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright

$29.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

From one of America's most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.   At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer--and the reason we make other people suffer--is that we don't see the world clearly. At the heart of Buddhist meditative practice is a radical promise: We can learn to see the world, including ourselves, more clearly and so gain a deep and morally valid happiness.   In this "sublime" (The New Yorker), pathbreaking book, Robert Wright shows how taking this promise seriously can change your life--how it can loosen the grip of anxiety, regret, and hatred, and how it can deepen your appreciation of beauty and of other people. He also shows why this transformation works, drawing on the latest in neuroscience and psychology, and armed with an acute understanding of human evolution.   This book is the culmination of a personal journey that began with Wright's landmark book on evolutionary psychology, The Moral Animal, and deepened as he immersed himself in meditative practice and conversed with some of the world's most skilled meditators. The result is a story that is "provocative, informative and...deeply rewarding" (The New York Times Book Review), and as entertaining as it is illuminating. Written with the wit, clarity, and grace for which Wright is famous, Why Buddhism Is True lays the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age and shows how, in a time of technological distraction and social division, we can save ourselves from ourselves, both as individuals and as a species. ...Show more

Britain's Trees - A Treasury of Traditions, Superstitions, Remedies and Folklore by Jo Woolf

$30.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

This lovely book will enable the reader to identify Britain's trees and enjoy reading the rich folklore and traditions connected with them. From hawthorn to holly, from beech to blackthorn, each of Britain's 40 or so native trees are illustrated and a text weaves together the fascinating natural history , folklore, traditions, and remedies connected with them. The stories of some of Britain's oldest and most beloved trees, some dating back thousands of years, are included too. As well as a fascinating book to dip into, the illustrations mean it also functions as a handy identification guide.  ...Show more

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton

$38.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER A SUNDAY TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'With emotional and psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our culture. In the process, he has produced a masterpiece.' Sunday Times The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths w hich hold it sacred, it is the bedrock of their religion, a singular authority on what to believe and how to live. For non-believers too, it has a commanding status: it is one of the great works of world literature, woven to an unparalleled degree into our language and thought. This book tells the story of the Bible, explaining how it came to be constructed and how it has been understood, from its remote beginnings down to the present. John Barton describes how the narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies, poems and letters which comprise the Bible were written and when, what we know - and what we cannot know - about their authors and what they might have meant, as well as how these extraordinarily disparate writings relate to each other. His incisive readings shed new light on even the most familiar passages, exposing not only the sources and traditions behind them, but also the busy hands of the scribes and editors who assembled and reshaped them. Untangling the process by which some texts which were regarded as holy, became canonical and were included, and others didn't, Barton demonstrates that the Bible is not the fixed text it is often perceived to be, but the result of a long and intriguing evolution. Tracing its dissemination, translation and interpretation in Judaism and Christianity from Antiquity to the rise of modern biblical scholarship, Barton elucidates how meaning has both been drawn from the Bible and imposed upon it. Part of the book's originality is to illuminate the gap between religion and scripture, the ways in which neither maps exactly onto the other, and how religious thinkers from Augustine to Luther and Spinoza have reckoned with this. Barton shows that if we are to regard the Bible as 'authoritative', it cannot be as believers have so often done in the past. ...Show more

Pope Francis: The Story of the Holy Father by Marie Duhamel

$99.99 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

This one-of-a-kind book is a comprehensive biography of the pope completely illustrated with more than 250 photographs and 50 removable documents. Beginning with his birth as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina in 1936, the book follows his life from his childhood and overcoming a life-threatening pneum onia as a young adult, to his studies in a Jesuit seminary and rise from priest to bishop to cardinal to pope. The book explores his concern for the poor and chronicles his recently travel around the world. The enclosed documents include facsimiles of Bergoglio's birth certificate, photographs from his childhood, pages from a school notebook, handwritten notes as Pope Francis, and even a support card for his beloved San Lorenzo soccer club. With a foreword by Federico Lombardi, director of the Press Office of the Holy See in Rome, and the endorsement of the Vatican, Pope Francis is an glorious celebration of this popular pontiff and his remarkable papacy. ...Show more

The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World by Scot McKendrick; Kathleen Doyle

$144.99 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

For two millennia the Bible has inspired the creation of extraordinary art. Within this history illuminated biblical manuscripts are among the best tools for understanding early Christian painting and artistic interpretations of the Bible.This extensively illustrated new book, compiled and written by tw o internationally renowned experts, transports readers, by way of forty-five featured manuscripts, across the globe and through 1,000 years of history. Passing chronologically through many of the major centers of the Christian world, from Constantinople and imperial Aachen to Canterbury, Mozarabic Spain, Crusader Jerusalem, northern Iraq, Paris, London, Bologna, and Rome, Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle shed light on some of the finest but least-known paintings from the Middle Ages, and on the development of art, literature, and civilization as we know it. ...Show more

Metahuman: A Personal Guide to Ultimate Transformation, Peak Experiences and Revolutionising How You Live and Work by Deepak Chopra

$38.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

Is it possible to venture beyond daily living and experience heightened states of awareness? The New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra says that higher consciousness is available here and now. In Metahuman he unfolds a path for waking up that allows all of us to realise our infinite potential . Drawing from the latest on brain research, artificial intelligence and biometrics, Chopra offers a practical 31 day guide to help us 'wake up' at the deepest level and activate higher states of consciousness to experience clarity, empathy and mental acuity. ...Show more

Crystals: Harness the Power of Crystal Healing by Yulia Van Doren

$22.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith

From choosing and using to programming, charging and cleansing, Crystals is a modern guide to enhancing your life with these enchanting stones. Often referred to as 'wisdom keepers', crystals hold millions of years of the Earth's history within them. Through emitting steady vibrations, they will h elp you to become more centred and balanced, creating spaces of Zen around you and your home. Featuring 51 of the most common and interesting crystals, this is a practical guide that will teach you about each stone's individual properties and how to harness their powers. Discover which crystals are right for you, where best to position them, the perfect pairings and learn how to look after your crystals on a daily basis to deflect any negativity in your life.   ...Show more

The Koran Qu'ran by N. J. Dawood (Introduction by, Translator)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Religions / Faith | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: General Adult

N. J. Dawood's masterful translation of The Koran in a fully revised edition   The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible word of God as first revealed to the prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago. Its 114 chapters recount the narratives a nd rules of conduct central to Islamic belief, and together they form one of the world's most influential prophetic works and a literary masterpiece in its own right. This newly revised edition of N. J. Dawood's classic translation is also available in a larger edition with the original Arabic in parallel text.   For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ...Show more