To be rather than to seem
Discover essential reads on faith and understanding with our curated book list, “To be rather than to seem.” Explore Karen Armstrong’s insightful *Islam*, Thomas Merton’s spiritual journey in *The Seven Storey Mountain*, and Huston Smith’s classic *The World’s Religions* to deepen your knowledge of history and belief.
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The Seven Storey Mountain
by Thomas Merton
A celebration of Merton's spiritual autobiography is accompanied by an introduction from the editor and a note from Merton's biographer.
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The World's Religions
by Huston Smith
Introduction to the world's religions that has been completely revised and updated.
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Islam
by Karen Armstrong
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and civil war. In a vital revision of this narrow view of Islam and a distillation of years of thinking and writing about the subject, Karen Armstrong’s short history demonstrates that the world’s fastest-growing faith is a much more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest.
