{"id":26104,"date":"2015-10-30T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=26104"},"modified":"2015-10-27T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T21:21:05","slug":"new-religion-spirituality-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/new-religion-spirituality-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"New Religion & Spirituality in November"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured new additions to DPL\u2019s\u00a0Religion and\u00a0Spirituality\u00a0collections! Click on the title to place a hold. For more new books, visit our Upcoming Releases<\/a> page. As always, if there’s a title you would like to read, please send us a purchase suggestion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"51j2QVhAyfL__SX334_BO1,204,203,200_\"<\/td>\n\u00a0Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People <\/a><\/strong><\/em>by Nadia Bolz-Weber – Tattooed, angry and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously, resists the God she feels called to serve. But God keeps showing up in the least likely of people\u2014a church-loving agnostic, a drag queen, a felonious Bishop and a gun-toting member of the NRA.\u00a0As she lives and worships alongside these \u201cac\u00adcidental saints,\u201d Nadia is swept into first-hand en\u00adcounters with grace and by this grace, people are trans\u00adformed in ways they couldn\u2019t have been on their own.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"y450-293\"<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0Grounded: Finding God in the World <\/a><\/strong><\/em>by Diana Butler Bass – The headlines are clear: religion is on the decline in America as many people leave behind traditional religious practices. Author and commentator Diana Butler Bass argues that what appears to be a decline actually signals a major transformation in how people understand and experience God. The distant God of conventional religion has given way to a more intimate sense of the sacred that is with us in the world.\u00a0This shift, from a vertical understanding of God to a God found on the horizons of nature and human community, is at the heart of a spiritual revolution that surrounds us.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\n<\/a><\/td>\n		The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by John Thavis – A behind-the-scenes look at how the Vatican investigates claims of miraculous events. Apocalyptic prophecies and miraculous apparitions are headline-grabbing events that often put the Catholic Church’s concept of “rational faith” at odds with the passion of its more zealous followers. To some, these claims teeter on the edge of absurdity. Others see them as evidence of a private connection with God. For the Vatican, the issue is much more nuanced as each supposed miraculous event could have serious theological and political consequences.\u00a0In response, the Vatican has developed a highly secretive and complex evaluation system to judge the authenticity of supernatural phenomena. Former journalist John Thavis\u00a0sheds light on this little-known process,<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\n<\/a><\/td>\n		Why I Am a Salafi<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by Michael Muhammad Knight – The Salafi movement invests supreme Islamic authority in the precedents of the Salaf, the first three generations of Muslims, who represent a \u201cGolden Age\u201d from which all subsequent eras can only decline. In Why I Am a Salafi<\/i>, Michael Muhammad Knight confronts the problem of origins, questioning the possibility of accessing pure Islam through its canonical texts.\u00a0It\u00a0is also a confrontation of Knight\u2019s own origins as a Muslim, exploring not only Salafism\u2019s valorization of the origins, but takes the Salafi project further than its advocates are willing to go, and reflects upon the consequences of surrendering the origins forever.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\n<\/a><\/td>\n		Witches of America<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Alex Mar – When most people hear the word “witches,” they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a documentary and finds herself drawn deep into the world of present-day magic. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all? Whether evangelical Christian, Pagan priestess, or atheist, each of us craves a system of meaning to give structure to our lives. Sometimes we just find it in unexpected places.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\n<\/a><\/td>\n		Where I am Heaven, Eternity, and Our Life Beyond<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Billy Graham – Now in his 97th year, preacher and evangelist Graham invites readers to follow the “Gospel Plan of Salvation” to the “ultimate destination… Heaven found in Jesus Christ.”\u00a0Graham evokes biblical authority with his trademark “the Bible says,” interspersing stories from scripture alongside reminiscences from his lengthy global ministries. In the moving final chapter of what may be his last book, Graham’s reflections on “when the Lord calls me home” proclaim his steadfast faith in the gospel message he has preached.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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