Books like The Quest by Mircea Eliade

A CIA operative travels to a remote Arizona mountain with a team of scientists to sabotage the world's largest supercollider, uncovering a secret that could either doom or save humanity.

In a post‑religious‑extremist future, investigator Justin March and elite soldier Mae Koskinen team up to solve ritual murders, uncovering deadly forces that treat humanity as pawns on a deadly game board.

In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Later generations further developed these initial insights, but we have never grown beyond them. Now, Karen Armstrong reveals how the sages of this pivotal "Axial Age" can speak clearly and helpfully to the violence and desperation that we experience in our own times. The Axial Age faiths began in recoil from the unprecedented violence of their time. There was a remarkable consensus in their call for an abandonment of selfishness and a spirituality of compassion. The traditions of the Axial Age were not about dogma--all insisted on the primacy of compassion even in the midst of suffering.--From publisher description.

Examines the religions of ancient China, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, and Christianity, and explores each one's philosophical concepts.

These essays deal with the question of, "what is the proper self-understanding of Christianity in a religiously pluralistic world?"

A semi-autobiographical romance between a French engineer and the daughter of a Hindu family with which he stayed in India. A case of East meets West with all the joys and woes that such encounters bring. For her version of the story see her novel, It Does Not Die.

"Reveals the secret language and words of power that enabled the ancient Egyptians to imagine the world into existence"--Provided by publisher.