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  • Dim and Dimmer
    Peter Heinegg
    In today's world, we are witnessing both the spread of a hopeful secular humanism and the persistence of cultural traditions that mindlessly glorify humans and are paving the path to environmental collapse. In Dim and Dimmer, Peter Heinegg tackles the question: “Can the ‘New Enlightenment’ already dawning save the day?” ...
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    41,01 €

  • Airy Nothings
    Peter Heinegg
    Even as the number of unbelievers continues to rise, religion in America still gets unwarrantably good press. Unfortunately, the central religious concept of the “sacred” proves, upon closer inspection, to be fictitious. This book surveys the various traditional “fortresses” of the sacred and finds them all empty and indefensible. ...
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    45,10 €

  • Abraham’s Ashes
    Peter Heinegg
    In Abraham’s Ashes, Peter Heinegg uncovers the truth behind the bizarre, contradictory, and oppressive fantasy known as monotheism. He offers a forceful critique of the biblical and Qur’anic views of Abraham, showing how at the heart of all prophetic religions lies an untenable myth of suprarational magical thinking about “revelation.” ...
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    45,10 €

  • Crazy Culture
    Heinegg / Peter Heinegg
    Crazy Culture is a series of broadsides against many widely held misconceptions in both academe and the general public. Surveying the history and ideology of cultural realms such as religion, sexual norms, politics, economics, the arts, and athletics, Heinegg deftly identifies and explains ubiquitous traces of cultural sins by humanity. ...
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    45,19 €

  • Bitter Scrolls
    Peter Heinegg
    This book is a broad survey of our ’sacred texts,’ both Holy Writ and secular masterpieces, whose canonical status often exempt them from hardnosed, commonsense criticism. A frank look at this literature is necessary and reveals a stunning combination of bias and blindness toward women. ...
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    57,43 €

  • God
    Peter Heinegg
    This book is a satirical-analytical view of monotheism in our time. Building on the work of both the great traditional unbelievers - Hume, Mill, Nietzsche, and Freud, among others -and contemporary critics - Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Ibn Warraq, etc. - Heinegg exposes the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ...
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    52,00 €

  • That Does It
    Peter Heinegg
    That Does It is an enfilade of critical attacks on the absurdities, stupidities, and crimes of present-day American life. The book provides a handy checklist of ills, from the life threatening to the merely obnoxious, afflicting the American psyche and body politic, which it then proceeds to submerge in satirical acid. ...
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    52,06 €

  • Oh, Wait-Now I Get It
    Peter Heinegg
    Like war and politics, philosophy is too important to be left to professionals. Oh Wait_Now I Get It illustrates this basic truth by tackling a broad spectrum of issues, which include: history, religion, government, sex, family, and death. In fact, the entire contemporary cultural scene from the perspective of a thoughtful amateur philosopher is brought forth within this book. ...
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    62,87 €

  • Good God! (And Other Follies)
    Peter Heinegg
    Good God! (And Other Follies) takes a critical and satirical look at the wave of religiosity now sweeping the country. From faith-based initiatives to bans on stem cell research, from public postings of the Ten Commandments to attacks on evolution, American godliness has apparently never had it so good. Much of this behavior and even more of the God-talk accompanying it, whethe...
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    61,54 €

  • Better than Both
    Peter Heinegg
    Better Than Both: The Case for Pessimism is an experiment in 'popular philosophy.' It presents and discusses (literally) life-and-death issues in non-technical, everyday language. This new work sees pessimism not as a kind of depressed moodiness or self-indulgent negativity, but as the inevitable result of any fair-minded survey of the world we actually live in. ...
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    64,39 €

  • Saint Gerard Majella
    Peter Heinegg
    A spiritual portrait of St. Gerard drawn from his writings and the lived expressions of his spirituality. The passsion behind Gerard's love for God is shared with simplicity and candor. This book will be of interest even to those already familiar with St. Gerard."Paperback" ...
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    18,87 €

  • Visible Here and Now
    Ayya Khema / Peter Heinegg
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    24,06 €

  • Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ
    Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori / Alphonsus Liguori / Peter Heinegg
    This inspiring book, reissued in a new translation for the modern reader, is considered to be Saint Alphonsus Liguori’s best devotional work. Divided into seventeen small chapters, each preceded by prayers and intercessions, it offers practical prescriptions for living a holy life. ...
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    17,24 €