Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G...

Saint Teresa (1515-1582) was the greatest reformer of her day and the greatest mystic of the Renaissance. In this refreshingly modern biography Medwick focuses attention on Teresa's important work in ...

"Calling Thomas ? Kempis's On The Love Of God "one of the most inspiring books ever written," Swami Abhayananda offers this updated rendition. "Be warned, however, that it is for the serious spiritual...

In India, stories of great spiritual figures were traditionally passed down orally from generation to generation and recounted publicly by bhagavathars, or devotional singers. The stories served to in...

"A thought-provoking selection of some of the chief writings of the Founder of the Bahá’í Faith, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh is a book of love and spiritual power that proclaims the pot...

"Selected Writings of Bahá’u’lláh provides an overview of the Prophet’s teachings, including sections on God and His Messengers; the path to God; spiritual aspects of the world civilization described ...

"Few Thomas Merton readers are aware that he created a significant body of visual art: drawings influenced by Asian calligraphy, American Abstract Expressionism, and other artistic traditions. His art...

"Readers familiar with the Holy Land - sacred to all three Abrahamic faiths - will delight in Pennington's apt descriptions and reflections in familiar places such as the coast of Caesarea, the hill c...

"Written by an anonymous 14th-century author for cloistered ""monks,"" THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING was one of the most popular religious texts in the late Middle ""Ages,"" but is considered notoriously dif...