Religious Festivals Books

This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern world. It considers questions such as:do travellers leave their religion at home when they are touring - and what happens if not? what are the relationships between...

The American St. Nick tells the remarkable TRUE story of a handful of American soldiers who during the chaos of war, help bring Christmas back a small Luxembourg town, and unknowingly create a holiday tradition that continues to this very...

David Rhodes is a former journalist who now works as an Anglican priest in inner city Leeds. His life is spent helping Christians engage with social justice issues and poverty. He has also worked for a time in South Africa. Rhodes blends all his...

A little boy sees the world through his love of challah. He "counts" the days until Shabbat, his favorite day of the week, when he can eat all of the challah he wants.

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards.Specialists in theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, theology, political studies, history, and ethnology...

An updated and revised version of a book that has already impacted thousands of churches. Are you tired of how consumerism has stolen the soul of Christmas? Join the groundswell of Christ-followers who are choosing to make Christmas what it should be---a...

Living the Season Well is a down-to-earth volume that encompasses the arc of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, introducing a new frame of mind about approaching the holidays. Instead of December ramping up to the pinnacle of Christmas, with a vast let...

Do you look forward to Christmas with eager anticipation... but then the season flies by in a flash?Do you intend to be present and focused... only to find yourself pulled every direction as you rush to holiday parties, decorate the house, and...

An Easter heart is not a heart that busies oneself with bunnies and baskets. Rather an Easter heart is a heart that believes, a heart that believes in Jesus. An Easter heart is humble, desperate, suffering, waiting, worshipful and victorious. Most of...

A Christmas heart is not a heart that puts on a happy face and throws more tinsel at the season. Rather a Christmas heart is a heart that longs for Jesus. A Christmas heart finds joy in relationship with Jesus through prayer, worship and praise. A...

A shepherd boy's story of how an angel encounter outside of Bethlehem led him to meet the future world messiah.

Discover how sea creatures celebrate Christmas through this fun retelling of the twelve days of Christmas song.

In the preface to the beautiful and inspiring work, Simple Gratitudes, Hannah Greenberg begins, "It's neither riches nor social status that makes our tenacious hanging on to life worthwhile. Rather, it's our integration of challenging "sensibilities," of...

This story was written by father and son.It's a book to be read and cherished when done.We hope when you read it you'll smile now and thenand we hope in your heartIt brings Christmas Again.

Daniel W. Hardy was one of the foremost ecclesial theologians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the English-speaking world. 'Wording a radiance' is a theology of the Spirit and of the Eucharistic foundations of the Church. It is also...

Bestselling author Lee Strobel draws on principles from The Case for Christmas and other research to show how believers in Christ can know for certain that biblical accounts of Jesus' birth are accurate.