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The psychology of world religions and spiritualities : an indigenous perspective / by Sisemore, Timothy A.,editor.(CARDINAL)681275; Knabb, Joshua J.,editor.(CARDINAL)837138;
"he relationship between psychology and religion has been historically rocky. The trouble is that psychologists often take a "top-down" approach to studying religious beliefs and practices. Consider, for instance, a psychologist who observes a community's religious ceremony and then describes it as a "sociological phenomenon." This strikes members of the community as an attempt to explain away their beliefs. When the sacred experiences of religious followers are treated as nothing more than case studies for journals and textbooks, the full import of their meaning in the hearts and minds of real people is lost. This book corrects that by taking a "bottom-up" approach to understanding religious behavior around the world. Each of the major religions is the focus of a separate chapter, and each chapter is written by a psychologist who is either a practicing member of that religion or who has cultural roots among the people who practice that religion. This gives the reader the intimate perspective of someone who has lived the religion, not merely studied it. Viewing religion in this manner is respectful and conveys all the color, flavor, and idiosyncratic ways that religion animates, inspires, and instructs its adherents. Psychologists in academic and clinical settings desperately need this kind of book today. Across society, we're hearing the call for greater diversity, understanding, and inclusion. With this resource in hand, psychologists will be able to grasp at an intimate level the meaningful role that religion and spirituality plays in the lives of the people they're trying to help"--
Subjects: Psychology, Religious.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Russian in 10 minutes a day / by Kershul, Kristine.; Bouranov, Kamal.; Ilyina, Marianna.; Smyslova, Alla A.;
A textbook/workbook for learning Russian quickly, along with cultural and information and practical travel tips.
Subjects: Textbooks.; Programmed instructional materials.; Russian language; Russian language; Russian language;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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The Good News Club : the Christian right's stealth assault on America's children / by Stewart, Katherine.(CARDINAL)467402;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Good News Club comes to town -- All part of the plan -- A wall of separation -- The originalists' new theory -- Little red church-house -- Thy neighbor's children: the 4/14 window -- Don't know much about history: the Texas textbook wars -- Bible "literacy" wars -- Packaging proselytizing as education -- The peer-to-peer evangelism loophole -- Enlisting in the army: how to join the Good News Club -- If you can't own it, break it: the plan to undermine public education.In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, bills itself as an after-school program of "Bible study." But Stewart soon discovered that the Club's real mission is to convert children to fundamentalist Christianity and encourage them to proselytize to their "unchurched" peers, all the while promoting the false impression that its activities are endorsed by the school. Astonished to discover that the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed this legal, Stewart set off on an investigative journey across the nation to document the impact. As she makes chillingly clear in this journey through the history, politics, and landscape of this new culture war, the rapidly expanding network of Good News Clubs represents just one of a range of initiatives intended to insert conservative forms of evangelical Christianity into public schools--and into society at large. In the communities within which they occur, these initiatives often appear to be spontaneous and local events. But in fact they are organized, funded, coordinated, and guided at a national level by a small number of influential actors. Taken all together, they represent an important new strategy on the part of the Christian Right in its long-running aim to "take back America."--From publisher description.
Subjects: Religion in the public schools; Religion in the public schools;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Nonbeliever nation : the rise of secular Americans / by Niose, David.(CARDINAL)399038;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The decline of the America dialogue -- The wedding invitation -- A religious people? -- A secular heritage -- Secularity and morality -- The disaster of the religious right -- Better late than never : secular Americans emerge -- Reason for hope and hope for reason -- When "happy holidays" is an act of hostility -- A new plan of action -- A secular future -- Another wedding -- Appendix. Secular Coalition for America's 2011 Congressional report card."Today's culture wars are more heated than ever. Education, public policy, and the separation between church and state have become a battlefield, and many are frustrated with the success the Religious Right has had in shaping the national agenda, from putting the brakes on gay marriage in California to stripping textbooks in Texas of references to Thomas Jefferson. But today, a growing nonreligious minority, nearly 20 percent of Americans, are finally organizing and taking explicit political positions. In Nonbeliever Nation, David Niose argues that America was never in fact a Christian nation and shows how the Religious Right successfully took control of the social and political narrative. He takes us across the country to meet the secular groups now forming in opposition to that force--from humanist gatherings to the rise of the New Atheists to the explosion of secular groups on college and even high school campuses. Niose discusses their political goals, including lobbying efforts, legal strategies, and outreach through advertising and education, and what still needs to be done to make the secular voice a gamechanger in American politics"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Culture conflict; Religion and politics; Secularism;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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A dangerous idea : the Scopes trial, the original fight over science in schools / by Levy, Debbie,author.(CARDINAL)638887;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The drugstore plan -- The real target -- Clarence and Will -- Boy orator of the Platte -- "Whatever degrades another degrades me" -- Two tall men, talking -- Proofs and perversions -- Darwinism goes to school -- Better to destroy -- "What are mothers to do" -- The road to Dayton -- The circus comes to town -- In the beginning -- To strangle puppies -- Prayers and chairs -- Four witnesses and a textbook -- Speechless -- The greatest speech -- Something brand new -- Any question they please -- I am not afraid -- Verdicts -- Afterlives and legends -- A victory -- The evolution of everything."In 1925, when Tennesse lawmakers banned the teaching of evolution in public schools, teacher John Scopes challenged the law--and set off a gripping circus of a legal battle. Two masterminds faced off in court in a blistering debate over creationism and natural selection. A narrative nonfiction book on the Scopes Monkey Trial"--Grades 7-9Ages 10-14
Subjects: Informational works.; Illustrated works.; Scopes, John Thomas; Evolution (Biology); Biology; Biology publishing; Religion and science; Educational law and legislation; Scopes, John Thomas;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 23
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Christian worship : 100,000 Sundays of symbols and rituals / by Ramshaw, Gail,1947-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.Why study Christian worship? -- What is a symbol? -- What is a ritual? -- Which symbols and rituals have Christians used for 100,000 Sundays? -- What comes down us to from 75,000 Sundays ago? -- What comes down to us from 50,000 Sundays ago? -- What comes down to us from 25,000 Sundays ago? -- What comes down to us from the last 10,000 Sundays? -- What is baptism? -- What Christian worship takes place between Sundays? -- How is Christian worship like and unlike the practices of other religions in America? -- How might Sunday worship affect daily life?This unique textbook not only lays out the religious-studies framework of a contemporary understanding of Christian worship. It also offers keys to the experience of Christian worship in each historical period, including the American experience. Ramshaw's novel and creative approach -- which shows the roots of Christian worship in symbol, ritual, myth, and sacred place -- bridges the great cultural divide between today's student and the chief Christian rites rooted in the ancient world. In light of this history of experiences, Ramshaw also illuminates and addresses ongoing issues in worship (gender, authority, ethics, skepticism) and places them into an exlicitly cross-religious framework with Islam, Judaism, and other traditions. -- Book jacket flap.
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism.; Public worship.; Public worship; Rites and ceremonies.; Ritual.; Signs and symbols.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Where Darwin meets the Bible : creationists and evolutionists in America / by Witham, Larry,1952-(CARDINAL)359626;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-318) and index.1370L
Subjects: Creationism; Evolution (Biology); Religion and science;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Church history in the fulness of times : the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / by Church Educational System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints),issuing body.(CARDINAL)525210;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Church History in the Fulness of Times is a text prepared by the Church Educational System for students of Religion 341, 342, and 343, 'Latter-day Saint History.' It is designed to help students increase their faith, knowledge, and understanding of the restoration and progress of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from the days of the Prophet Joseph Smith to the administration of President Ezra Taft Benson. Because it is not possible to include in one volume every facet of Latter-day Saint history, emphasis has been given to show that (1) the hand of the Lord has been manifest from the early days of the restoration of the gospel through Joseph Smith to the present, (2) the Lord works through living prophets in the last days as he has always done, and (3) the Church has survived in times to trial and persecution and will continue to roll forth until it fills the whole earth.
Subjects: Textbooks.; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Latter Day Saint churches;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Henry Ossawa Tanner : art, faith, race, and legacy / by Woods, Naurice Frank,Jr.,author.(CARDINAL)226664; Tanner, Henry Ossawa,1859-1937,artist.(CARDINAL)122817; Routledge (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)764271;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index.Prologue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, "Negro painter" -- Introduction: Creativity and racism in the nineteenth century -- Of the father and of the son: the rise of Benjamin and Henry Tanner -- Into the south and across the sea: Atlanta and Paris beckon -- The American interlude: race and religion on canvas -- Crossing over Jordan: salon triumph and spiritual crisis -- A salon master in a modern century -- The Great War, the new Negro, and the celestial city -- Epilogue: The redemption of memory."Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on American art. Consequently, he has emerged as the most studied and recognized representative of African American art during the nineteenth century. In fact, Tanner, in the spirit of political correctness and racial inclusiveness, has gained a prominent place in recent textbooks on mainstream American art and his painting, The Banjo Lesson (1893), has become an iconic symbol of black creativity. In addition, Tanner achieved national recognition when the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1991 and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2012 celebrated him with major retrospectives. The latter exhibition brought in a record number of viewers. While Tanner lived a relatively simple life where his faith and family dictated many of the choices he made daily, his emergence as a prominent black artist in the late nineteenth century often thrust him openly into coping with the social complexities inherent with America's great racial divide. In order to fully appreciate how he negotiated prevailing prejudices to find success, this book places him in the context of a uniquely talented black man experiencing the demands and rewards of nineteenth-century high art and culture. By careful examination on multiple levels previously not detailed, this book adds greatly to existing Tanner scholarship and provides readers with a more complete, richly deserved portrait of this preeminent American master." --
Subjects: Biographies.; Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937; African American art; African American art; African American painters; Art and race.;
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Education : opposing viewpoints / by Williams, Mary E.,1960-(CARDINAL)211352;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215) and index.The quality of public education has declined / Karl Zinsmeister -- The quality of public education has not declined / David C. Berliner -- Poor commitment to academic achievement hampers public education / Laurence Steinberg -- Low expectations hamper public education / James White -- Racial and financial inequities hamper public education / Kati Haycock -- Poorly trained teachers hamper public education / Lawrence W. Reed -- The government should offer school tuition vouchers / Donald Lambro -- The government should not offer school vouchers / National Education Association -- Choice programs should include religious schools / Charles J. Chaput, Reggie White, and Sara White -- Religious schools will be harmed by choice / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Charter schools are beneficial / Jeff Jacoby -- Charter schools may be harmful / Gary Orfield -- Homeschooling is viable / Lawrence W. Reed -- Homeschooling may not be viable / Katherine Pfleger -- Multicultural education is beneficial / James A. Banks, Gena Dagel Caponi -- Multicultural education is counterproductive / Thomas J. Famularo -- Curricula and textbooks should reflect multiculturalism / Cameron McCarthy -- Textbooks favoring multiculturalism distort history / Alvin J. Schmidt -- Bilingual education is beneficial / Ofelia Garcia -- Bilingual education is a failure / Linda Chavez -- Schools should teach moral values / Christina Hoff Sommers -- Schools cannot teach moral values / David R. Carlin -- School-sponsored prayer should be allowed / Ann Donnelly -- School-sponsored prayer is unconstitutional / Tom Peters, Jim Allison, and Susan Batte -- Scientific evidence against evolution and for Creation should be included in science curricula / Robert E. Kofahl -- Creationism should not be included in science curricula / Eugene Scott, interviewed by Leon Lynn -- Conservative educational policies would benefit public schools / E.D. Hirsch Jr. -- Progressive educational policies would benefit public schools / Deborah Meier -- Increased funding would improve public education / Jesse Jackson -- Increased funding does not improve public education / Walter Williams -- Ending social promotions would improve academic achievement / Bill Clinton -- Flunking students does not improve academic achievement / Ernest R. House.
Subjects: Public schools; School choice; Multicultural education; Religion in the public schools;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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