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Spirituality and Religion January 2021
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| Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Franz AltWhat it is: a concise, issue-oriented plea to politicians and other powerful decision-makers to rise to the challenge of fighting climate change.
Why you might like it: A hopeful, conversational tone make a sometimes overwhelming topic feel more approachable.
Don't miss: the discussion of the work being done by a new generation of climate activists like Elsa Mengistu, Xiye Bastida, Greta Thunberg, and Jamie Margolin. |
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A politics of love : a handbook for a new American revolution
by Marianne Williamson
The best-selling author of A Return to Love confronts the toxic environment of fear and divisiveness threatening today's America, urging all spiritually aware readers to draw on the examples of historical activists to embrace loving values. 50,000 first printing
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For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
by Sasha Sagan
What it's about: This thoughtful and engaging memoir explores the rise in and value of ritual in secular life and includes advice on how to incorporate more of it into your own life.
Read it for: the author's reflections on her interest in religious topics as the daughter of noted scientist and avowed skeptic Carl Sagan.
Reviewer say: "profound" and "elegantly written" (Kirkus Reviews).
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| The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories... by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi BrettlerWhat it is: an accessible and thought-provoking comparative study of the scriptures shared by Judaism and Christianity and the different interpretations that that both faiths bring to them.
What makes it unique: the emphasis placed on historical and social context, and how it can affect the way a text is understood by a given culture.
You might also like: The Islamic Jesus by Mustafa Akyol; The Book of the People by A.N. Wilson. |
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| Toil & Trouble by Augusten BurroughsWhat it is: the candid and darkly humorous account of the author's experiences with ritual and his family's relationship with witchcraft and the supernatural.
Who it's for: Burroughs fans; anyone interested in the informal ways that beliefs from the past can find their way into the present.
About the author: Writer Augusten Burroughs has published essays, fiction, and nonfiction, and is best known for his memoirs Running With Scissors and Dry. |
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Consent : a memoir of unwanted attention
by Donna Freitas
The university lecturer and author of The Body Market chronicles her toxic relationship with her mentor, an acclaimed professor whose unwanted abusive attentions transformed her life and compelled her advocacy work. 35,000 first printing.
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
by Kate Bowler
What it's about: In her previous book Blessed, Kate Bowler explored the history and theology of the Prosperity Gospel. It's in this same context that she reflects on her diagnosis, at age 35, of Stage IV cancer, and how her impending mortality has affected her own faith.
Read it for: the seemingly effortless way that Bowler weaves her brand of warm, candid humor throughout a book that is as funny as it is bleak and as erudite as it is intimate.
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