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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Western and African cultures collide in Haiti resulting in religious conflict between Christianity and Voodoo. Despite centuries of vigilant opposition from the Christian Church, Voodoo has flourished in Haiti and continues to be one of the strongest elements underlying Haitian culture. This film dispels Hollywood stereotypes and presents Voodoo as a belief system that has been passed down from African ancestor to slave to present day Haitian. Traveling...
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of Hinduism and discusses why Hinduism is perhaps the most diverse religion of all. Covers topics such as arranged marriages and the caste system, the Indus Valley Civilization, the sacred writings in the Vedas, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Upanishads, ritual purity rites, the Aryan language of Sanskrit, and Hinduism's rejection of the notion that there is but one path to the divine. Introduces Hinduism's wealth of gods, terms,...
Series
Great Courses volume 9
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Logic is intellectual self-defense against such assaults on reason and also a method of quality control for checking the validity of your own views. But beyond these very practical benefits, informal logic—the kind we apply in daily life—is the gateway to an elegant and fascinating branch of philosophy known as formal logic, which is philosophy’s equivalent to calculus. Formal logic is a breathtakingly versatile tool. Much like a Swiss army...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This poetic documentary is a salute to 35,000 years of "pre-history," to the values of ancestors only recently remembered, and to the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. Goddess Remembered features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish, Starhawk, Charlene Spretnak, and Jean Bolen, who link the loss of goddess-centred societies with today's environmental crisis. They propose a return to the belief in an interconnected life system,...
7) Mystic India
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Experience the true story of an eleven-year-old child yogi, Neelkanth, who left his home in 1792 on a journey of enlightenment and awakening.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Conclude by considering the historical ramifications of the Nicean affirmation that Jesus was God. Learn about the growing Christian faith's effects on paganism and the advent of anti-Jewish thought and action. Observe how the theological debates continued, and review Jesus's path to becoming the object of faith for billions today.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Among early Christian groups, the Gnostics demonstrate yet another view of the divinity of Jesus. Explore the fundamental tenets of Gnosticism, with its notion of secret knowledge as the source of salvation. Discover the Gnostic "separationist" view of Christ, according to which the divine Christ inhabited, temporarily, the human Jesus.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Enter the fray with philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick, who reached different conclusions about what would constitute a just society. Begin with a thought experiment based on Christopher Nolan’s movie Interstellar, pondering how you might start civilization from scratch in the fairest possible way.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
[1 Samuel] Why is the story of King Saul, who united Israel’s twelve tribes, one of the world’s great tragedies? Find out in this lecture, which approaches 1 Samuel as a three-act drama recounting Saul’s rise to power as Israel’s first king—and the path of his tragic, Shakespearean downfall.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the ancient world, there were many accounts of "divine" mortals. Track this phenomenon in the Greco-Roman polytheistic religions, noting the overlap between the human and divine worlds. Explore three ancient models of divine men, in both mythology and Christian scripture, as gods take on human form and humans enter the heavenly realm.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Professor Berkson notes that the Buddhist tradition was established, in part, as a response to the realities of sickness and death. The Buddha’s response to the experience of dying, as you’ll learn, involves seeing past the illusion of self, recognizing the concept of impermanence, and practicing mindfulness.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It has been both an ancient and spiritual question, and today a question of science: What are these miraculous events? … Where do they come from? … And what do they mean? … If miracles are real, are they divine intervention and what is the role of spirituality, religion and prayer? This 4-part series explores and investigates the many answers to these questions through interviews with theologians, historians, experts, actual witnesses and visits...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The doctrine of the Trinity asserts that God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit are all individually God. Look into the origins of this mysterious claim, noting that the Trinity appears nowhere in the Bible. Learn about the conception of "modalism", which proposed that the three are manifestations of one being, and modalism's opponents.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
[Esther, Daniel] Delightful and playful, the books of Esther and Daniel tell stories of life under the Babylonian, Median, Persian, and Greek empires. Here, you’ll learn how these two important biblical heroes respectively illustrate the value of human initiative and the call for resistance against injustice and oppression.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Many Muslims consider life on earth as a test to determine one’s eternal fate, making existence just one part of an infinitely greater story. Consider how the primary forms of Islam—Sunni, Shia, and Sufi—approach the concept of paradise and hell, the four main practices of treating a corpse, and more.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Paul's theology represents a transition between early conceptions of Christ as exalted by God upon his death and later views of his innate or eternal divinity. Trace Paul's seminal role within the early church, and his view of Jesus as a divine being whose actions raised him to a higher level of divinity.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Host Tevya goes deep into the woods to explore the spiritual ways of North America's first Aboriginal people- the people of the First Nations. While he has seen headdresses, Pow-Wows, sweat lodges and teepees on television, Tevya knows nothing about what First Nations people really believe or what their rituals are. After meeting two indigenous teenagers, Tevya experiences this religion firsthand..
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