The Religion and Spirituality Collection
The Religion and Spirituality Collection explores the many different ways that people around the world practice and express their spirituality. The collection includes the IN THE LIGHT OF REVERENCE series, about Native Americans struggling to protect their sacred places and WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE, the six-part history of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Other aspects of Christianity are explored in LEFT BEHIND IN LOUISIANA (evangelcialism on the Gulf Coast), SONS OF PERDITION (teenages escaping the secretive FLDS group. and THE VIRGIN, THE COPTS AND ME, about Egypt's Copt community. Several classic titles from Kartemquin Films explores grassroots Catholicism in Chicago in the 1960s. The collection has especially rich content about Islam, films about Islam and women (including A VEILED REVOLUTION, CRIMES OF HONOR and DISHONORED), and the fascinating story of Leopold Weiss's conversion to Islam. ANGRY MONK tells the story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel; IN THE NAME OF GOD looks the Hindu fundamentalism; THE DHAMMA BROTHERS tells the story of the influence of an ancient meditation program on a maximum security prison.
This remarkable collection is a must have for any program teaching about religion and spirituality around the world today.
The Religion and Spirituality Collection includes the following titles:
Three Muslim students face a choice between their faith and their future.
A young Pakistani landowner chooses between trying to implement the MDGs in the village that his family owns, and a quiet life.
Should General Butt Naked (nee Joshua Blahyi) — now a Christian pastor — be forgiven for his role in Liberia's horrific civil war?
The filmmaker comes home to Bethlehem to find the city being strangled by the Wall and ongoing Israeli settlements, and starts a campaign to keep Bethlehem open to the world.
An unfettered study of the penis's place in history, art, religion, and contemporary life.
John Pilger returns to the Middle East and questions why there has been no progress towards peace.
A provocative and breathtaking wakeup call - a cross continental cinematic journey that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species.
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