Them That Believe by Ralph W. Hood Jr.6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() *Expanded discussion of atheism and varieties of nonbelief. ![]() *The latest empirical findings, including hundreds of new references. New to This Edition *New topics: cognitive science of religion religion and violence and groups that advocate terrorist tactics. Chapter-opening quotations and topical research boxes enhance the readability of this highly instructive text. Integrating research on numerous different faith traditions, the book addresses the quest for meaning links between religion and biology religious thought, belief, and behavior across the lifespan experiential dimensions of religion and spirituality the social psychology of religious organizations and connections to coping, adjustment, and mental disorder. ![]() It takes a balanced, empirically driven approach to understanding the role of religion in individual functioning and social behavior. Keeping up with the rapidly growing research base, the leading graduate-level psychology of religion text is now in a fully updated fifth edition. ![]()
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At the Broken Places by Mary Collins6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I won the Teaching Award at CCSU as well, one of the proudest moments of my professional life because the regional public university takes great pride in fostering teaching above all else. In 2007 I returned to my native Connecticut for a range of reasons, including my fabulous mom, and took a tenured position as Program Coordinator of the Writing Minors at Central Connecticut State University. During that same period, I also published a history of National Public Radio, essays in the Washington Post, New York Times and other publications, and wrote an award-winning photobiography of the Wright brothers (National Geographic Books). ![]() ![]() I learned so much moving through various jobs at National Geographic and the Smithsonian and teaching part-time at Johns Hopkins University’s MA in Writing program, where I won the Teaching Award and the Professional Achievement Award for my work as an essayist and author of American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture. My twenty-five years in Washington, DC as a professor, writer and editor carved out the frame of who I’ve become as a professional. ![]() The Property by Rutu Modan6/30/2023 ![]() Plenty has been undisclosed over the years, and in the course of a few days much unravels. ![]() We learn quickly his presence on the flight was no coincidence, and that he has ulterior motives for much of what he does, although this is a family story, not a crime drama where motivation is kept secret. The other person is a family cousin who just happened to be on the same flight, and has a particularly over-protective and interfering nature. She’s used to her grandmother’s eccentricities, and confident enough to travel alone around Warsaw without speaking Polish, although as seen from the sample illustration that’s not how things work out. Regina is only the first of a wonderful parade of characters Modan introduces, each of them fully realised, but The Property isn’t really her story, as Mica gradually assumes the focus. To Mica this is random strange behaviour, but Regina has spotted a name in the Warsaw telephone directory. She’s accompanied by her adult granddaughter Mica on a trip to Warsaw, ostensibly to negotiate the return of family property lost during the Nazi invasion of World War II, but Regina has other ideas, and immediately changes her mind. ![]() It’s a comic scene, yet also establishes just what a stubborn woman Regina is. Rutu Modan instantly engages audience sympathies in The Property by featuring the curse of the 21 st century traveller being unable to take a bottle of water through airport security. ![]() |