Summary: Islam has more than 1.2 billion adherents worldwide. Today, it is imperative that the West understand Islam's role as both a religion and a way of life, what Muslims believe, their practices and history. This set of twelve thirty-minute lectures present an exploration of Islamic law, mysticism, civilization, and Muslim life and society through the ages. Examines the "struggle for the soul of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 GRESummary: Buddhism challenges some of the most important Western ideas about God, human life, and the self. In Buddhism, there is no single almighty God who created the world. Instead, Buddhism teaches that all of life is suffering, and there is no permanent self. Moreover, it teaches that in accepting that all life is suffering, bliss can be achieved in this life. Buddhism's core philosophy that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 GREJames, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books/Library of America 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.42 JAMSummary: A first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future. Follow these children at summer camp in Devil's Lake, North Dakota as they hone their 'prophetic gifts'.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Contains 12 lectures of thirty minutes each, which survey the history, traditions, and practice of Judaism from biblical times to today, with explanations of the major aspects of Jewish culture. Focuses on Judaism from within and how it is understood by its adherents, past and present. Covers topics such as the sacred books of Judaism, modes of worship, the calendar and holidays, and rites of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 GRESummary: Professor Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas explores existentialism and the leading writers and philosophers who have been associated with this philosophical movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 142.78 SOLEhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: "In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EHRENREICH, BARBARA EHRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit EhrenreichEhrenreich, Barbara
Summary: In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence. She set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of mystical experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EHRENREICH, BARBARA EHRCampbell, Joseph
Contents: Introduction -- In the field -- Living in the world -- Coming into awareness -- Living in the sacred -- Notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Professor Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas explores existentialism and the leading writers and philosophers who have been associated with this philosophical movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 142.78 SOLSolomon, Robert C.
Summary: This Lecture course by Professor Robert C. Solomon of the University of Texas explores existentialism and the leading writers and philosophers who have been associated with this philosophical movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 142.78 SOLRyrie, Alec
Summary: "Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 RYRJohnson, Luke Timothy.
Summary: Provides an overview of Christianity, the world's largest religion, and discusses why, in addition to being vast and popular, it is also extremely complex and often highly contradictory. Explains why the central figures, elements, and creeds of Christianity are hard to fathom yet give Christianity its distinctive character. Covers topics such as Christianity's birth and expansion across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 GREWard, Keith
Contents: The causes of violence -- The corruptibility of all things human -- Religion and war -- Faith and reason -- Life after death -- Morality and the Bible -- Morality and faith -- The enlightenment, liberal thought and religion -- Does religion do more harm than good in personal life? -- What good has religion done?
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 WARHuckabee, Mike
Summary: "In Mike Huckabee's new book God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, he asks the question, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times bestselling author explores today's American culture, drawing from his travels as a presidential candidate to present average, small-town people and families, and their optimistic resilience in the face of hard times; their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 HUCBoslough, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 BosloMoody, Raymond A.
Summary: "In this book Dr. Moody shares the groundbreaking results of four decades of research into the philosophy of nonsense, revealing new ways to understand and experience life, death, and spirituality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 121 MOORolston, Holmes
Summary: How is the scientific method similar to and different from the way that Christians think? One tends to see what one is looking for. Those who think about religion also use such frameworks. They may call them creeds. Both science and religion open up "big questions." Scientists seek causes; believers seek meanings
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elm Hill Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 201.65 ROLPalau, Luis
Contents: On the Bible and God -- On the creation -- On religion and the spirit -- On religious beliefs in China -- On Chinese and western cultures and philosophy -- On religion and science -- On religion and social harmony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.21 PALBayne, Tim
Summary: What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as 'eternal'? And should religious people want there to be good arguments for the existence of God, or is religious belief only authentic in the absence of these good arguments? In this 'Very Short...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 210 BAYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 210 BAYSummary: Are philosophy and religion - reason and faith - fundamentally at odds? From today's strict division between questions of logic and questions of belief, one might think so. But for 1,000 years during a pivotal era of Western thought, reason and faith went hand-in-hand in the search for answers to the most profound issues investigated by Christianity's most committed scholars: Can God's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 189 REALeaman, Oliver
Summary: "An extensive glossary of the main terms and concepts used in Eastern philosophy. including concepts from: Zoroastrianism, Sufism, Concucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism, & Buddhism."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 1999
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 181 LEASummary: Demystifying the key ideas of the world's greatest philosophers, and exploring all of the most important branches of thought, including philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and feminist philosophy in a uniquely visual way, this resource is the perfect introduction to the subject.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 HOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil HowAdler, Laure.
Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009