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Great Courses volume 9
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
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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...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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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Reitman offers the first full, journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an even-handed account that at last establishes the astonishing truth about the controversial religion. She traces Scientology's development from the birth of Dianetics through to the present day.
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American Grace takes its findings from two of the largest, most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America, plus in-depth studies of diverse congregations-among them a megachurch, a Mormon congregation, a Catholic parish, a reform Jewish synagogue, and an African American congregation. From abortion to gay marriage to feminism, this book shows how religion has influenced politics in America-and vice versa. The discoveries...
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A&E
Pub. Date
2020.
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In CULTS AND EXTREME BELIEF, Elizabeth Vargas, alongside former members of controversial organizations, goes on a search to uncover how these sects use their influence to prey upon people’s desperation to create powerful and often destructive belief systems. Each episode will take an immersive look at one currently active group through the eyes of past devotees and get perspective from believers and leaders that are still inside.
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Egyptian myths expressed the core values of one of the most sophisticated ancient civilizations. Ancient Egyptians had a deep belief in the existence of many gods and in life after death. Your readers will learn that the Egyptians identified many of their divinities with elements of the natural world, such as the sun, stars, and animals. They also believed that kings were endowed with divine power. Details about ancient Egypt's most vivid and powerful...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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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,...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Push your exploration of the mind even further by looking at functionalism, which suggests that anything that functions like our brain has mentality. The implication is that, in principle, machines can think. Study some responses to this theory, including John Searle’s thought experiment called the Chinese Room.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
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
2016.
Description
[1 and 2 Corinthians] While in Ephesus, Paul wrote letters now known as 1 and 2 Corinthians to the Christian community of Corinth. Here, unpack the four major sections of these two iconic letters to a conflicted community, which offer insights into Paul’s views on the cross, the Holy Spirit, the resurrection, and reconciliation.
15) Paul’s Calling
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
[Acts 9–17] One of early Christianity’s most controversial figures is Paul. In this look at the apostle’s life and mission, you’ll learn how to see his preaching as an extension of older biblical texts and an attempt to connect the new Christian faith to other belief systems and patterns of life.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
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The first four lectures of the course pose the big question: What is philosophy? Start by exploring the kinds of problems that philosophy addresses, the way philosophy works, and the distinction between philosophy and opinion. Discover that philosophy is arguably the most important pursuit there is.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
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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
2014.
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In exploring the first claims about Jesus's resurrection, this lecture discusses the phenomenon of visionary experience as understood by modern researchers. Learn about the variety of religious and bereavement visions people experience, and the ways in which the disciples' visions and beliefs about Jesus combined to impact their conception of him as divine.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
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
2016.
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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.
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