日本で最も人気のある本のリスト●宗教

著者はキリスト教神学の集大成をなしとげた初期キリスト教会の教父。「神を賛美する」とも題されるこの書は、みずからがたどったキリスト教信仰への道のりを、隠すことなく率直に述べた稀有な自叙伝。幼年時代に学業をさぼったこと、青年期の女への執着と放縦な生活との葛藤、キケロの著作によって目をひらかれ、アンブロシウスの説教に心を動かされ、キリス...

発売日: 2014-08-12 ¥770

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedicat...

発売日: 2012-02-07 ¥1,400

The memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize—the Palme d'Or. Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air....

発売日: 2000-09-02 ¥1,200

岩手県の北部、青森県との境の小さな町にある古刹、天台寺。さびれきったその寺に、懇請され、住職として晋山(しんざん)した著者の、愛と勇気と行動の日々。数々の困難を乗り切って、名刹に命をとりもどした、奇蹟のような10年間の実践。深い仏縁と、はかり知れない仏恩の下で、地元の人々と共に復興に努める、感動の記。

発売日: 1995-08-15 ¥610

Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the world? In An Appetite for Wonder we join him on a personal journey from an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa, through the eccentricities of ...

発売日: 2013-09-12 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,200

Who was Edmond J. Safra? “The greatest banker of his generation,” in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut’s Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora.  In A Banker’s Journey, financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like ...

発売日: 2022-08-30 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,100

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEY A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz. "I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf." Tova ...

発売日: 2022-09-06 ¥1,400

The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series) — now updated with more than 50 percent new material—the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sect in Williamsburg in order to forge her own path in the world. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. She was determined to fin...

発売日: 2021-08-31 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,600

One of the most iconic spiritual books ever to be written . It details the life of Paramhansa Yogananda.

発売日: 2020-04-08 ¥100

Wielkie Pytania nigdy nie milkną całkowicie.... Dlaczego w ogóle coś istnieje? Dlaczego to „coś” jest Wszechświatem? Czy da się wyzwolić z niewoli czasu? Czy istnienie zła w historii Wszechświata da się jakoś usprawiedliwić? W swojej najnowszej książce Michał Heller zastanawia się nad wielkimi zagadnieniami, jakie stawia Wszechświat i nasza własna egzystencja, sięgając do szerokiego zaplecza rozmaitych działów nauki, dociekań filozoficznych, analiz teologów i różny...

発売日: 2019-12-03 ¥950

U.G. Krishnamurti's teachings pose a great challenge to the religious traditions all over the world. What UG said was outside the field of teachability. In point of fact, there was no teacher, no taught and there no teaching. There was no symbolism, no metaphysics, no mysticism involved in his words. He meant what he said, literally. This book is a collection of his quotations.

発売日: 2018-12-25 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,400

'Only a disciplined person is a free person.' - B.K.S. Iyengar B.K.S. Iyengar's journey began from an inconspicuous village in Karnataka. Losing his father early, he was buffeted by fortune from the home of one relative to another. He was in his teens when he met his guru (and brother-in-law) Krishnamacharya, a renowned yogic scholar, who took him under his wing. The young Iyengar found himself drawn to the teachings, but terrified of the teacher. Despite the tumultuous relationship between...

発売日: 2017-06-15 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,400

“Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.” - Pope Francis. St Josephine Bakhita was a trafficked child: abducted from her home and family by slave raiders, sold and re-sold, and horribly abused. To a succession of cruel owners she was a thing, not a person, and even her name was taken from her. Yet her discovery of Jesus Christ, her true master, gave meaning to her appalling suffering.

発売日: 2017-06-19 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥400

This collection of autobiographical and teaching stories from peace activist and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is thought provoking and inspiring. Collected here for the first time, these stories span his life. There are stories from his childhood and the traditions of rural Vietnam. There are stories from his years as a teenage novice, as a young teacher and writer in war torn Vietnam, and of his travels around the world to teach mindfulness, make pilgrimages to sacred sites and influence world le...

発売日: 2016-11-03 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,400

A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world’s great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in ‘Through the Narrow Gate’, Karen Armstrong struggled to establish herself in a new way of life, and became entrapped in a downward spiral, haunted by despair, anorexia and suicidal feelings. Despite her departure from the convent she remained within the Catholic Church until...

発売日: 2016-06-09 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥750

※この商品はタブレットなど大きいディスプレイを備えた端末で読むことに適しています。また、文字だけを拡大することや、文字列のハイライト、検索、辞書の参照、引用などの機能が使用できません。 ビリオンは幕末に宣教師として長崎に入るが、そのとき見た光景は長崎から追われていく隠れキリシタンであった。幕末の日本に訪れた西洋人は多かった。その大部...

発売日: 2003-06-27 ¥1,000

Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England. Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount in vivid detail the horrors they lived through. As powerful as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary , children's experiences are written with an unguarded eloquence that belies their years. Some of the diarists include: a Hungarian girl, selected by Mengele to be pu...

発売日: 2014-02-04 ¥2,200

"Even if I lived a hundred lives, I still wouldn't be exhausted." These words capture the intensity of the experiences of Claude Lanzmann, a man whose acts have always been a negation of resignation: a member of the Resistance at sixteen, a friend to Jean-Paul Sartre and a lover to Simone de Beauvoir, and the director of one of the most important films in the history of cinema, Shoah . In these pages, Lanzmann composes a hymn to life that flows from memory yet has the rhythm of a novel, as tumul...

発売日: 2012-03-13 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,200

Covered from head to toe with only her eyes visible, the sight of a Muslim woman on a western city street rarely fails to provoke a strong reaction. Feelings of shock, horror, repulsion, pity or even fear are not uncommon. But have you ever wondered who it is behind the veil and what makes her tick? Ever wondered what her life is really like and whether her dreams, hopes and aspirations differ from yours? From My Sisters' Lips offers a rare glimpse into the lives of a community of women, most of...

発売日: 2011-10-31 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,200

Foran's book is the first major biography with access to family letters and archives: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century. Mordecai Richler won multiple Governor General's Literary Awards, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, among others, as well as many awards for his children's books. He also wro...

発売日: 2010-10-19 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,700

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything "at l...

発売日: 2007-01-23 ジャンル:伝記／自叙伝 ¥1,500