Biography: Religious & Spiritual

The untimely death of his Darling Linda to cancer leaves Chris to navigate a passage through his grief. There are no instructions; no map for him t...

Jenna Miscavige Hill was born into the Church of Scientology. The niece of its current director, David Miscavige, she grew up at the center of this...

When A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada entered the port of New York City on 17 September 1965, few Americans took notice--but he was not me...

The face of anorexia is not a glossy model in a perfume ad. It's a starving animal, circling the empty cupboards, blank-eyed and vacant. It's a fac...

Elijah ben Solomon, the Genius of Vilna, was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new n...

The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited - and remade.Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historica...

This biography of Joseph Smith is especially interesting because to was written by a man who knew him, George Q. Cannon, and drawn from first hand ...

Throughout his long and turbulent career as an Indian leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfill his religious aspir...

In early twentieth-century France, a vast network of artists, writers, and religious seekers were drawn to Roman Catholicism's elaborate panoply of...

Read the story of a life lived safely within the lines, that God turned upside down. From social star of 1930''s Chicago to a Wycliffe missionary i...

To the outside world I was a middle-aged man with a good career and a happy family life. Yet, behind the facade I was a victim of domestic, emotion...