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Wise blood / by O'Connor, Flannery.(CARDINAL)146872;
Adrift after four years in the service, Hazel takes a train to the city of Taulkinham, buys himself a "rat-colored car," and sets about preaching on street corners for the Church Without Christ, "where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way." Along the way he meets Enoch Emery, who's only 18 years old but already works for the city, as well the blind preacher Asa Hawks and his illegitimate daughter, Sabbath Lily. Subsequent events involve a desiccated, centuries-old dwarf--Gonga the Giant Jungle Monarch--and Hazel's nemesis, Hoover Shoats, who starts the rival Church of Christ Without Christ. --From publisher's description.920L
Subjects: Novels.; Faith; Psychology, Religious; Religious adherents;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Wise blood / by O'Connor, Flannery.(CARDINAL)146872;
"Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Motes founds the Church Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with "wise blood," who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motes's existential struggles. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction."--The passengers on the train to Taulkinham show mixed reactions when Haze questions their belief in Jesus.920L
Subjects: Novels.; Faith; Psychology, Religious; Religious adherents;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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The meaning of belief : religion from an atheist's point of view / by Crane, Tim,author.(CARDINAL)365825;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Religion and the atheist's point of view -- The religious impulse -- Identification -- Religion and violence -- The meaning of tolerance.Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers a way out of this stalemate. An atheist himself, Tim Crane writes that there is a fundamental flaw with most atheists' basic approach: religion is not what they think it is. Atheists tend to treat religion as a kind of primitive cosmology, as the sort of explanation of the universe that science offers. They conclude that religious believers are irrational, superstitious, and bigoted. But this view of religion is almost entirely inaccurate. Crane offers an alternative account based on two ideas. The first is the idea of a religious impulse: the sense people have of something transcending the world of ordinary experience, even if it cannot be explicitly articulated. The second is the idea of identification: the fact that religion involves belonging to a specific social group and participating in practices that reinforce the bonds of belonging. Once these ideas are properly understood, the inadequacy of atheists' conventional conception of religion emerges. The Meaning of Belief does not assess the truth or falsehood of religion. Rather, it looks at the meaning of religious belief and offers a way of understanding it that both makes sense of current debate and also suggests what more intellectually responsible and practically effective attitudes atheists might take to the phenomenon of religion.--
Subjects: Belief and doubt.; Atheists; Faith.; Psychology, Religious.; Religious adherents.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Quantum shadows / by Modesitt, L. E.,Jr.,1943-author.(CARDINAL)347093;
On a world called Heaven, the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon. That Hegemon may be a god, or a prophet of a god. Smaller religions have their own towns or villages of belief. Corvyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains the collective memory of humanity's Falls from Grace. With this knowledge comes enormous power. When unknown power burns a mysterious black image into the holy place of each House of the Decalivre, Corvyn must discover what entity could possibly have that much power. The stakes are nothing less than another Fall, and if he doesn't stop it, mankind will not rise from the ashes.
Subjects: Philosophical fiction.; Religious fiction.; Science fiction.; Novels.; Fall of man; Religious adherents; Gods;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13
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The redeemed : a Jenny Cooper mystery / by Hall, M. R.,1967-(CARDINAL)430263;
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2011 by Macmillan Publishers Ltd."--T.p. verso. "A Jenny Cooper mystery"--JacketInvestigating the murder of a porn star-turned-religious fanatic, coroner Jenny Cooper infiltrates the underworld of a hugely successful megachurch where she navigates the pitfalls of millionaire zealots and religious leaders only to uncover additional killings.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Coroners; Murder; Religious adherents;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Faith communities 2020 Census action guide. by U.S. Census Bureau,issuing body.(CARDINAL)267070;
Subjects: Religious communities; Religious adherents; Public worship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wise blood [sound recording] by O'Connor, Flannery(CARDINAL)146872; Pinchot, Bronson(CARDINAL)824616;
Read by Bronson Pinchot.Returning from serving in the Army, 22-year-old Hazel Motes finds his family home empty. Wandering around the city of Taulkinhan, Hazel, believing the only way to avoid sin is by having no soul, establishes the Church Without Christ, which irreparably affects his fate.
Subjects: Audiobooks; Faith; Psychology, Religious; Religious adherents; Veterans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The night sessions / by MacLeod, Ken,1954-author.(CARDINAL)656799;
In a world where religion has been banned, inspector Adam Ferguson suspects the murder of a bishop and others like him is the result of their practicing religion illegally, until the perpetrator's target list expands to include atheists as well.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Police; Religious adherents; Terrorism; Clergy; Persecution; Police.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Collected works / by O'Connor, Flannery.(CARDINAL)146872;
Wise blood -- A good man is hard to find -- The violent bear it away -- Everything that rises must converge -- Stories and occasional prose.This collection includes all the short stories, both novels, the essays, and selected letters of one of the most unique and important writers in the southern tradition.Bibliography: pages 1265-1281.
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.; O'Connor, Flannery; Families; Psychology, Religious; Veterans; Faith; Religious adherents;
Available copies: 67 / Total copies: 76
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Gospel / by Morris, Will,author,artist.(CARDINAL)884392; McKend, Holley,colorist.(CARDINAL)884066;
"Contains material originally published in magazine form as GOSPEL #1-5"--Colophon page."When opportunity refuses to knock for restless hero Matilde, the devil comes knocking instead. Thrust into action by the hellish arrival, Matilde and storyteller Pitt will quest for renown, the soul of their community and answers to the toughest question of all: "who am I?" Inspired by the work of Hayao Miyazaki and set in the chaos of King Henry VIII's reign, GOSPEL is a thrilling fantasy adventure that explores the truth behind the stories we tell."
Subjects: Fantasy comics.; Graphic novels.; Religious comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Faith; Friendship; Martyrdom; Quests (Expeditions); Religious adherents; Friendships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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