Amazon Kindle – Now Available In Australia – BookOffers Buyers Guide
Amazon.com today announced that the Kindle will become available in Australia from October 19 2009. Australian book lovers will no doubt have the new international Kindle on the top of their Christmas lists this year. BookOffers.com.au predicts that the arrival of the Kindle in Australia will be a game changer for the Australian book industry. [...]
Learn MoreJohn Shelby Bishop Spong is well-known in Australia for his controversial ideas and fighting for minority rights. In Eternal Life: A New Vision. Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell he urges us to seek God within, by living each day to its fullest. And, if we do we will come to understand [...]
From the imagination of award winning author Carmel Bird comes her latest novel Child of the Twilight. It brings together religion, science, pregnancies wanted and unwanted, love, loss and belief and questions and celebrates the miraculous.
Sydney Peony Kent is nineteen years old. [...]
The Uncensored Bible: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book reveals all of the stories, anecdotes that you never learnt in Sunday School
We all know the story of how Eve was created from Adam’s rib. But what if perhaps “rib” was a mistranslation…. and the body part she was *really* created from was [...]
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The Encyclopedia of Religion in Australia is the first major attempt to record religion and its practice around Australia by ANU Professor James Jupp.
Australia is a country rich in religious diversity. While constitutionally-speaking Australia is a secular society, waves of immigration over its short history have had a large impact on its religious and cultural [...]
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The Case For God by Karen Armstrong has been described by the Guardian as an eloquent and interesting book that takes the reader through a history of religious practice in many different cultures, arguing that in the good old days and purest forms they all come to much the same thing.
The enormous popularity of books [...]
As seen in todays Sydney Morning Herald – God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Will Change the World by Economist magazine head John Micklethwait & Washington bureau chief Adrian Wooldridge is a rebuttal of the idea that religion is incompatible with the modern world and the future will be secular.
On the street [...]
The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types.
His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise [...]
