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Spirituality and Religion July 2024
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| Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart by Brian D. McLarenReaders interested in the intersections between their faith and the looming specter of climate change will want to check out this thought-provoking and surprisingly inspiring analysis of the detrimental effects of modern social structures on the planet, with examples from scripture of ways to meet potential calamity without succumbing to despair. |
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Jewish Priorities : Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People
by David Hazony
Imagine having the entire Jewish people over for dinner--and hosting a raucous, creative, riveting debate about their collective future. Jewish Priorities offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, ambitious, and genuinely "pan-Jewish" conversation. Encompassing more than sixty top authors from around the Jewish world--Israelis and Diaspora writers; younger influencers and veteran opinion leaders; rabbinic and communal leaders, journalists and scholars, and literary and cultural figures, ranging from secular to ultra-Orthodox--each contributor offers a different priority for the Jewish people. In the process, Jewish Priorities captures the tremendous breadth, depth, and passionate commitment that has long defined this unique community in history.
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Brown Boy : A Memoir
by Omer Aziz
In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. As he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen's University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider. In Brown Boy, Omer Aziz has written a book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he's from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to be.
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| The Devil's Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared by Randall SullivanDrawing as much from the conventions of true crime as from social history and folklore, journalist Randall Sullivan examines the pervasive nature of concepts of the Devil (and lowercase-D devils) across an array of cultures and how depictions of the satanic have changed over time. |
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| Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America by Helen TworkovIn this candid and engaging first memoir, writer and editor Helen Tworkov recounts her journey to and in Buddhism, explores the development and spread of Buddhism in the West; and reflects on her spiritually formative experiences with figures such as writer Joseph Goldstein, musician Charles Mingus, and the Dalai Lama himself. |
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| Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait WestWith great candor and thoughtfulness, podcast host Cait West shares this unflinching account of what it was like to grow up in a religiously oppressive, emotionally neglectful family with parents whose primary concern was enforcing a rigid gender binary, with an emphasis on perpetuating the unequal, patriarchal power dynamics that aligned with their faith. |
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