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 collection includes the following titles:
Waves of RevolutionWaves of Revolution made during the repressive days of the Emergency in India documents the 1974-75 uprising of the people of Bihar in Eastern India.
AmaThe untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.
After TillerSheds a humanistic light on the heated abortion debate by going inside the lives of the last four doctors in America who openly provide third-trimester abortions and the reasons their patients seek them.
AWAKE, A Dream from Standing RockDocuments the story of Native-led defiance of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. The film asks: 'Are you ready to join the fight?'
The Buffalo WarThe battle over the yearly slaughter of America's last wild bison outside Yellowstone National Park.
Can Condoms Kill?Investigates the Catholic Church's allegationthat condoms are unreliable and ineffective in preventing the transmission of HIV.
Holy Smoke
City Life - Lines in the DustIn revolutionary programs in Northern Ghana and India, gender roles are challenged, and illiterate adults educated.
Connectivity ProjectExamines the ripple effects of our actions in an interconnected world.
Dreaming of TibetLooks at the lives of three Tibetan exiles, and at the recent history of their country, which forced them to flee.
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