A wide variety of sacred music is attracting a worldwide audience. Gregorian chants have hit the bestseller charts, and Hindu and Buddhist meditation music is very popular. B'ismillah: Highlights from the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, Volume I contains Pakistani chants, Egyptian odes, flamenco-style Christian songs, and Sufi dance music. Hamdulillah: Highlights from the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, Volume II showcases spiritual songs from Iran, medieval Muslim and Andalusian songs, Moroccan Jewish traditional music, and Islamic songs of Central Asia.

Icons have been used for centuries by Orthodox Christians as aids to meditation and worship. To believers, icons are windows into the sacred; they provide bridges to Jesus Christ, links with the saints, and reminders of significant events in the history of salvation. Praying with Icons by Jim Forest provides a succinct and profound overview of this devotional art. It contains color plates and black-and-white photographs of icons along with prayers that can be used with them.