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Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a horrific accident shatters her dreams of becoming a world class dancer, Riley Adams clings to her faith, determined to recover in time for the national competition. Refusing to let rival dance student Alea's merciless teasing for Riley's Christian beliefs stand in her way, Riley fights to regain mobility. When the college student discovers equine therapy, she develops a special bond with a beautiful mare named Grace and finds an unexpected...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Many of the world's best-known landmarks have been inspired by faith, and today more worshippers than ever are flocking to these sacred places. For some, they're sanctuaries for quiet contemplation. For others, they're sites for astonishing acts of worship, dangerous challenges, and extraordinary deeds of devotion. Discover what people do for faith in some of the most sacred places on Earth.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sons of Shiva is a sustained attempt to film a four-day ceremony concerned with the worship of Shiva. Devotees of the God Shiva are shown from the initial taking of the Sacred Thread through gradually intensifying action to a culmination in a variety of ascetic and self denying practices.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community in southern Haiti, on family land, where relatives have gathered to propitiate gods inherited by their ancestors.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Though the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. Stay and fight or leave....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
To the Land of Bliss is an intimate portrayal of the Chinese Pure Land Buddhist way of dying and living. In 1998, the filmmaker/anthropologist Wen-jie Qin returned to her home region in Sichuan Province in southwest China to research the post-Mao revival of Buddhism.
Publisher
BCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Español
Description
In Mexico, the cult of Saint Death, the female grim reaper, is rapidly growing. While condemned by the Catholic Church as Satanic, people whose lives are filled with danger and violence have become the most devoted followers and their practices are examined in this film.
13) Courageous
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Honor begins at home. Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, David Thomson, and Shane Fuller are confident and focused. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood. While they consistently give their best on the job, good enough seems to be all they can muster as dads. But they're quickly discovering that their standard is...
16) Trek: the movie
Publisher
Excel Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follows a young Mormon teenager named Tom and his friends on their handcart journey. Along the way they try to smuggle in unsanctioned food, battle sibling rivalry, and match wits with a twinkie-loving skunk. But when they encounter unexpected trouble, their faith is tested much like their pioneer ancestors.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the sixteenth century Portuguese Catholic missionaries introduced Christianity to Japan. The religion flourished for about fifty years, but by 1614 the Tokugawa government issued an edict that outlawed Christianity and expelled the missionaries from Japan. About 150,000 believers went underground and continued to practice their religion in secret.
18) End of life
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program discusses care at the end of life, primarily focusing on pallative care of individuals and their families. The program's focus is on spiritual and supportive aspects of care rather than physical care. Information on the role and importance of advance care planning and advance directives is also presented.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This original ethnographic video depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists, and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the antique Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans. The setting is the spring Equinox when a shadow said to represent the Maya serpent-god Kukulkan appears on one...
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