|
Religion and Philosophy eNewsletterApril 2017
|
New and Recently Released Religion & Spirituality!
|
|
|
Hallelujah anyway : rediscovering mercy
by Anne Lamott
An impassioned exploration of mercy, its elusive presence and why people ignore or embrace it shares advice for forging deeper self-understanding and how to pursue an honest, meaningful life that involves kindness to others. By the best-selling author of Stitches.
|
|
|
Letters to a young Muslim
by Omar Saif Ghobash
"This book is the result of the personal exploration Ghobash went through in the years after his father's death. The new generation of Muslims is tomorrow's leadership, and yet many are vulnerable to taking the violent shortcut to paradise and ignoring the traditions and foundations of Islam. The burning question, Ghobash argues, is how moderate Muslims will unite and find a voice that is true to Islam while actively and productively engaging in the modern world. Letters to a Young Muslim will explore how Arabs can provide themselves, their children, and their youth with a better chance of prosperity and peace in a globalized world, while attempting to explain the history and complications of the modern-day Arab landscape and how the younger generation can solve problems with extremists internally, contributing to overall world peace."
|
|
|
Pilgrimage : my search for the real Pope Francis
by Mark K. Shriver
A deeply intimate portrait of Pope Francis and his faith draws on interviews with the men and women who knew him as a child, before he became a priest or during his years as a bishop, sharing additional insights into the individuals who helped shape his beliefs.
|
|
|
A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
by Eileen Markey
An investigative journalist drawing on interviews, letters and declassified government documents provides an up-close account of what a faith that does justice looks like as she explores the full and complex life of Sister Maura Clarke, one of the four American women raped and murdered by the U.S.-trained military of El Salvador in 1980.
|
|
|
Finding peace through spiritual practice : the Interfaith Amigos' guide to personal, social, and environmental healing
by Don Mackenzie
If we want to heal our personal and planetary problems, we have to move beyond talking to spiritual practice. Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Imam Jamal Rahman, who have become known as the Interfaith Amigos, believe truly effective interfaith dialogue can inhibit the demonization of any religion. In this, their third book, the Interfaith Amigos look at the specific issues we face in a pluralistic society and the spiritual practices that can help us transcend those roadblocks to effective collaboration on the critical issues of our time. This book helps awaken readers to the spiritual consciousness within each of us that provides the foundation for much-needed healing. Each chapter includes spiritual practices to aid us in reclaiming the deep spiritual truths of our own being.
|
|
New and Recently Released Philosophy!
|
|
What love is : and what it could be
by Carrie Jenkins
A philosopher offers her new theory on the nature of romantic love that brings together its humanistic and scientific components and explains how our acceptance of non-traditional relationships—including homosexual, interracial and non-monogamous ones—will continue to evolve in the future.
|
|
|
Sin bravely : a memoir of spiritual disobedience
by Maggie Wallem Rowe
A formerly dedicated born-again Christian describes her experiences in an Evangelical psychiatric facility, a place where she found a way to temper her zeal and live a more normal life.
|
|
|
Happy as a Dane : 10 secrets of the happiest people in the world
by Malene Rydahl
Explores ten aspects of Danish life that afford them high levels of happiness and fulfillment, including trust, education, freedom, equal opportunities, realism, respect, work-life balance, relationship with money, modesty, and gender equality.
|
|
|
The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds
by Michael Lewis
The best-selling author of The Blind Side examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory by Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky created the field of behavioral economics and has had a lasting influence on evidence-based regulation.
|
|
|
Mind over money : the psychology of money and how to use it better
by Claudia Hammond
An award-winning BBC Radio 4 host delves into the latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and biology to show us that our relationship with money is more complex than we might think and reveals some simple and effective tricks that will help us use and save money better.
|
|
|
Bonus: Philosophy of Language
|
|
|
Word by word : the secret life of dictionaries
by Kory Stamper
"Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. Have you ever tried to define the word "is?" Do you have strong feelings about the word (and, yes, it is a word) "irregardless?" Did you know that OMG was first used in 1917, in a letter to Winston Churchill? These are the questions that keep lexicographers up at night. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing dictionaries is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence, Kory Stamper cracks open the complex, obsessive world of lexicography, from the agonizing decisions about what and how to define, to the knotty questions of usage in an ever-changing language."
|
|
No more faking fine : ending the pretending
by Esther Fleece
The author recounts how she ignored the pain of her past before eventually being forced to confront it, describes how she was able to address her pain through the biblical language of lament, and encourages listeners to do the same.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|