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The lesson from this week's best-seller list is simple: God sells. But what worries some scholars is that the hottest religious books depart from traditional Christian teaching or distort the faith's origins.
The latest pulse-pounder in the "Left Behind" series about the end of the world -- "Glorious Appearing" -- couldn't have appeared more gloriously, at No. 1 among Publishers Weekly's fiction best sellers. It edges out another religion-themed novel, "The Da Vinci Code," which has ranked among the top three for 54 straight weeks.See the full content of this document
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Is Fiction Confusing the Facts?
American's fiction market has never seen such a juxtaposition, says Publishers Weekly religion editor Lynn Garrett. Combined with the success of Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" -- now eighth on the U.S. all-time b...
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