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A philosopher and his Buddhist son debate the issue of rationalism versus spiritual belief in this thoughtful, challenging exploration of an important philosophical and religious issue. Reprint.

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Draws largely from the author's early inspirational writings for Guideposts magazine, featuring heartwarming stories and essays that reflect various aspects of Monk's early writing career and quest for spiritual awareness. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

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This delightful new book makes an important statement about devotion to God rather than activity. Strands of humor and warmth woven throughout make it a joy to read from beginning to end.

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After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens, whose life has been defined by the tragic death of her mother, joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters who show them the true meaning of love and family. Reprint.

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Palden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk eighteen years later. Through sheer determination, he won a place as a student at Drepung Monastery, one of Tibet's "Three Greats", where he came to spiritual and intellectual maturity. However, Tibet was enduring political changes that would soon alter his life irrevocably. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of land reform and "thought reform" that would eventually affect all of Tibet's citizens and nearly decimate its ancient culture. In 1959, along with thousands of other monks, Palden Gyatso was forced into labor camps and prisons. He would spend the next thirty-three years of his life being tortured, interrogated, and persecuted simply for the strength of his beliefs, for being a monk. In 1992 Palden Gyatso was released from prison and escaped across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. Since then, he has devoted himself to revealing the extent of Chinese oppression in Tibet and the atrocities he endured. Palden Gyatso's story bears witness to the resilience of the human spirit and to the strength of Tibet's proud civilization, faced with cultural genocide.

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This new edition explores the many dimensions of religion as a central reality of human life. It provides a functional definition of religion that suggests that religion is important to everyone because each person's life is shaped by, and all persons are concerned about, occasions in their lives that threaten or promote fulfillment of the individual's basic values and commitments.

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  • A broad approach to defining religion in terms of value and commitment-Allows examination of traditional religious issues, beliefs, and patterns.
  • A functional definition of religion-Provides several definitions of religion-with emphasis upon that which gives "pivitol value" to life.
  • A variety of resource materials-Drawn from the Scriptures and classic literature of the world's great religions, as well as from classic and contemporary sources that seek to interpret religion in its various dimensions.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

  • Updated contemporary examples from popular culture-Features poetry, drama, cinema, comics, news stories, and song lyrics.
  • Expanded and revised content throughout-E.g., ecstatic religion, religion and gender, myth, religious understandings of evil, and postmodernism.
  • Examination of recent world events-As they relate to religion.
  • Fuller treatment of religious orientations and movements in simpler and contemporary society.

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The captivating memoir of popular character actor Malachy McCourt recounts the adventures of a young man set loose in New York City in the freewheeling 1960s in search of fame, fortune, and fun.

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Jessie Sullivan's conventional life is transformed when she is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a beautiful and mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid. By the author of The Secret Life of Bees.

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