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2) Siddhartha
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Siddhartha is the story of a soul's long quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but isn't content with the disciple's role. He must work out his own destiny-- a torturous road on which he experiences a love affair with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riches, the heartache of struggling...
5) Religion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shows and describes art and artifacts associated with the world's religions, including those of ancient Egypt, Greece, Africa, India, China, Tibet, Japan, Iran, and Israel, and describes basic beliefs.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Description
"The absorbing narrative relates the story of a woman who overcame a severe personal crisis and went on to head a spiritual direction center where participants use the arts to gain clarity about their own spiritual journeys. Readers visit contemporary worship services in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston and listen to leaders and participants explain how music and art have contributed to the success of these services. All in Sync also illustrates...
Author
Language
English
Description
"God is in trouble. The rise of the militant atheist movement spearheaded by Richard Dawkins signifies, to many, that the deity is an outmoded myth in the modern world. Deepak Chopra passionately disagrees, seeing the present moment as the perfect time for making spirituality what it really should be: reliable knowledge about higher reality. Outlining a path to God that turns unbelief into the first step of awakening, Deepak shows us that a crisis...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Scientology is known for its celebrity believers and its team of "volunteer ministers" at disaster sites such as the World Trade Center; its notably aggressive response to criticism or its attacks on psychiatry; its requirement that believers pay as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach the highest levels of salvation. The author offers a full, journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an even-handed account that establishes...
Series
Studies in law politics and society volume 61
Studies in law politics and society volume 63
Studies in law politics and society volume 57
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Studies in law politics and society volume 63
Studies in law politics and society volume 57
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Language
English
Description
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains two sections, focusing on the interaction between law and religion, together with the ways in which the law simultaneously enhances and inhibits projects of social change.
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Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future.
The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, churches,...
The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, churches,...
Author
Series
Bison book volume 119
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
20) African religion
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Series
Language
English
Description
The African continent is home to more than 6,000 different ethnic and cultural groups, each with its own religious customs. Yet these many traditions have much in common, including an almost universal belief in a Supreme Being, a close interconnection between the sacred and the nonsacred, and a reliance on a rich oral tradition to pass on religious and ethical precepts from generation to generation. For a very long time, the indigenous religions of...