Williamson, Marianne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WILWilliamson, Marianne
Summary: "Marianne Williamson confronts the politics of fear with a powerful new paradigm that turns love into a political force. With her trademark wisdom and care, Williamson urges all Americans to reach into our hearts to reclaim our love for democracy and our passion for the possible. Only that, she says, will heal our country and our world." -- Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.973 WILKittelstrom, Amy
Summary: "Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KITBerlinerblau, Jacques.
Summary: Argues that a return to a more secular America will promote religious diversity and freedom, and help eliminate the widening divide between religious conservatives and staunch atheists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.6 BERMeacham, Jon.
Summary: Author Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, this book draws on the past to offer a new perspective. Meacham re-creates the history of a nation grappling with religion and politics--from John Winthrop's "city on a hill"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.1 MEAProthero, Stephen R.
Summary: "One summer evening in 1916 in Blanchester, Ohio, a sixteen-year-old farm boy was riding his horse past the town cemetery. The horse reared back and whinnied, and Eugene Exman saw God. For the rest of his life, he struggled to recreate that moment. Through a treasure of personal letters and papers, God the Bestseller explores Exman's personal quest. A journey that would lead him in the late...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.5 PROSyman, Stefanie.
Summary: Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga in America--the story of this ancient spiritual discipline's transformation into a practice now synonymous with a healthy body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.36 SYMReitman, Janet.
Summary: Reitman offers the first full, journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an even-handed account that at last establishes the astonishing truth about the controversial religion. She traces Scientology's development from the birth of Dianetics through to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.936 REIAtwood, Craig D.
Summary: This authoritative guidebook to U.S. religious groups is now available in a brand-new, updated edition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abingdon Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291 ATWAllitt, Patrick.
Summary: Examines religion not only as a set of formal beliefs, ideas, communal or institutional loyalties, and styles of worship, but also as an influence on the rest of American society. Investigates the subtle but important links which have long brought religion into close contact with the intellectual, social, economic, and political concerns of Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 200 ALLMiller, Lisa.
Summary: A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven--from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings, to the convictions and perceptions of everyday people. Drawing on history and popular culture, biblical research and everyday beliefs, religion journalist Lisa Miller offers a new understanding of one of the most cherished ideals of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 202.3 MILLove, Robert
Summary: Chronicles the emergence of yoga in Jazz Age New York, tracing the contributions of instructor Pierre Bernard, who trained with an Indian master before introducing patrons to modern yogic principles from his profitable Hudson River ashram.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 LOVLucado, Max.
Contents: Turn #1: Toward God's glory -- Turn #2: Toward God in prayer -- Turn #3: Toward God's Word -- Turn #4: Toward God in repentance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Pub. 2005