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Prisoners of belief : exposing & changing beliefs that control your life / by McKay, Matthew.(CARDINAL)732469; Fanning, Patrick.(CARDINAL)732471;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150).
Subjects: Belief and doubt.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Belief : what it means to believe and why our convictions are so compelling / by Alcock, James E.,author.(CARDINAL)516798;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-608) and index."An expert on the psychology of belief examines how our thoughts and feelings, actions and reactions, respond not to the world as it actually is but to the world as we believe it to be. This book explores the psychology of belief - how beliefs are formed, how they are influenced both by internal factors, such as perception, memory, reason, emotion, and prior beliefs, as well as external factors, such as experience, identification with a group, social pressure, and manipulation. It also reveals how vulnerable beliefs are to error, and how they can be held with great confidence even when factually false. The author, a social psychologist who specializes in the psychology of belief, elucidates how the brain and nervous system function to create the perceptions, memories, and emotions that shape belief. He explains how and why distorted perceptions, false memories, and inappropriate emotional reactions that sometimes lead us to embrace false beliefs are natural products of mental functioning. He also shows why it is so difficult to change our beliefs when they collide with contradictions. Covering a wide range -- from self-perception and the perceived validity of everyday experience to paranormal, religious, and even fatal beliefs--the book demonstrates how crucial beliefs are to molding our experience and why they have such a powerful hold on our behavior"--Belief to Die For -- When Seeing Is Believing -- Believing What We Remember -- Believing What We Learn and Feel -- Thinking and Believing -- In the Garden of Belief -- Preserving the Roses -- Tending and Tilling -- Credulity and Deceit -- Beliefs about Ourselves -- Not Quite in Our Right Minds -- Belief and Well-Being -- Belief and Healing -- Folk Remedies and Alternative Medicine -- Magic and Superstition -- The God Engine -- Things That Go Bump in the Night -- Illusory Experience -- A Caboodle of Strange Beliefs -- A Firewall to Folly.
Subjects: Belief and doubt.;
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Overcoming doubt / by Anderson, Neil T.,1942-(CARDINAL)781445;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127).The nature of doubt -- The nature of faith -- Reasonable faith -- Certainties and uncertainties -- On the right path -- Doubt and mental health -- Taking every thought captive.
Subjects: Belief and doubt.; Faith.;
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Speak to me of love / by Hatcher, Robin Lee.(CARDINAL)355480;
When Faith Butler finds herself and her two children stranded in Dead Horse, Wyoming. She has no chouce but to take employment with mysterious recluse Drake Rutledge.
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Romance fiction.; Belief and doubt;
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The well of prayers / by Levy, Anne Boles.;
Hadara, now sixteen years old, is still recovering from the night she assisted the Azwans, but when a temple guard who she once thought was dead comes back into her life he points her toward new truths and a new sense of purpose.
Subjects: Belief and doubt;
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Surprised by doubt : how disillusionment can invite us into a deeper faith / by Chatraw, Joshua D.,1982-author.(CARDINAL)633354; Carson, Jack,1995-author.(CARDINAL)872739;
Includes bibliographical references."Building on the metaphor of Christianity as a house, two apologetics scholars invite doubters to leave the confines of late-modern evangelicalism for a deeper, more orthodox faith"--
Subjects: Faith.; Belief and doubt.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Questioning faith [videorecording] by Alston, Macky.(CARDINAL)221705; Cox, Leonard.; Hurwitz, Tom.; Cinemax Reel Life (Firm); Docurama (Firm)(CARDINAL)215269; Mixed Greens (Firm); New Video Group.(CARDINAL)219113; River Films.;
Director of photography, Tom Hurwitz.Macky Alston.The death of a close friend and fellow seminary student challenges Macky Alston's deepest convictions. Alston sets up a network of interviews with a diverse group of New Yorkers to answer questions on how to maintain faith in the face of tragedy.DVD; Dolby digital stereo.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Belief and doubt.; Faith.;
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Why we believe : finding meaning in uncertain times / by McGrath, Alister E.,1953-author.(CARDINAL)739270;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265)."In today's science-driven, rational world, belief is dismissed as an artefact of a bygone era--something absurd at best, harmful at worst. The prevailing narratives paint belief as primitive, weird, even dangerous. But as life grows ever more confusing and our societies more atomised, contemplating something bigger than ourselves has never been more vital. Alister McGrath offers a fresh perspective on belief, presenting it not as a weakness of rational thought but as an essential tool for navigating uncertainty. Elegant and thought-provoking, Why We Believe reveals how belief provides meaning in the face of existential despair, how it fosters community and offers solace. As society moves beyond the dismissive rhetoric surrounding people of faith, here is a powerful manifesto for the re-enchantment of the Western mind"--
Subjects: Belief and doubt.; Faith.;
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The web of belief / by Quine, W. V.(Willard Van Orman)(CARDINAL)153037; Ullian, J. S.,1930-(CARDINAL)421186;
Bibliography: pages 94-95.
Subjects: Belief and doubt.; Reasoning.;
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In praise of doubt : how to have convictions without becoming a fanatic / by Berger, Peter L.,1929-2017.(CARDINAL)139495; Zijderveld, Anton C.,1937-(CARDINAL)520988;
The many gods of modernity -- The dynamics of relativization -- Relativism -- Fundamentalism -- Certainty and doubt -- The limits of doubt -- The politics of moderation.Two top sociologists map out how people can reclaim their convictions from the twin dangers of fundamentalism and a loss of moral values, exploring the roles of humor, doubt, and social norms in moderating views to avoid becoming fanatical.
Subjects: Belief and doubt.; Certainty.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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