Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

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Fields of blood: religion and the history of violence

By Armstrong, Karen

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 200

Call Number: 201.72 ARM

"From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after Sept 11: That faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness--something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths? In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths subscribed around us, in our immediate community as well as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions.

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Atheism: a reader

Publishing Date: 2000

Classification: 200

Call Number: 211.8

This unique anthology assembles the best writings on atheism, agnosticism, and skepticism by some of the world's great thinkers past and present. Includes essays by Bertrand Russell, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and more.

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Ladies of gold, volume one: the remarkable ministry of the golden candlestick

By Metcalfe, Frances

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: 200

Call Number: 231.7 MET v.1

Monsignor Ronald Knox, fellow of Trinity College, Oxford: and Protonotary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII

By Waugh, Evelyn

Publishing Date: [1959]

Classification: 200

Call Number: 282.092 WAU

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The spirituality of imperfection: storytelling and the journey to wholeness

By Kurtz, Ernest

Publishing Date: 1994, c1992

Classification: 200

Call Number: 291.4 KUR

The Spirituality of Imperfection brings together stories from many spiritual and philosophical paths, weaving past traditions into a spirituality and a new way of thinking and living that the authors propose for today.

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The gnostic Jung and The Seven Sermons to the dead

By Hoeller, Stephan A.

Publishing Date: 1982

Classification: 200

Call Number: 299.93 HOE

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