From the Catholic-Protestant killings in Northern Ireland to the Hindu-Sikh-Muslim massacres in India, from the Orthodox-Catholic-Muslim horror in the former Yugoslavia to the Branch Davidian cult tragedy in Waco, Texas, religion is still a powerful force that pits people against one another. Award-winning journalist James A Haught has chronicled ...
Despite the prevalence of religious belief in the United States (nearly 200 million Americans belong to 350,000 congregations), a growing minority (14 percent) of U.S. adults identify with no religion whatsoever. Journalist, James A Haught addresses the secular segment of American society in this interesting collection of incisive essays that give ...
This treasure for couples combats the taboos pervading sexual intimacy by presenting lovemaking as healthy, natural, tender, romantic, wholesome, fulfilling and joyful tribute to the goodness of sex, incorporating world-class art, poetry, and commentary.
"Holy Horrors" chronicles the grim spectrum of religious persecution from ancient times to the present, including such historic massacres as the Crusades, the Islamic jihads, the Catholic wars against heretics, the Inquisition, witch hunts, the Reformation, and such atrocities as the Holocaust, the seemingly insoluble Catholic-Protestant schism in ...
Society rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that disbelievers give to the world. Churchmen generally contend that great figures in history, such as America's founders, were conventional believers. That isn't true, and this insightful, witty collection sets the record straight! This collection chronicles dozens of famous people such as ...
Journalist James Haught grew up in an Appalachian farm town in the 1930's and clearly remembers the use of outdoor plumbing, kerosene lamps, handle pumps, and horses and wagons. He now does his work at a video terminal, with a roof dish that fills the screen with news from a satellite 22,000 miles above the equator. As he points out in the ...
In ancient Greece, male supremacy made most women servants, slaves, or concubines. Yet Greek art depicted bold, free, fighting females. Amazons were spirited women who fled to be rebels, according to this account by a captured scribe.
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