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Catching Light

Looking for God in the Movies

By: Roy M. Anker

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Catching Light

Looking for God in the Movies

By: Roy M. Anker

Anker examines 19 popular films, showing how they convey a range of striking perspectives on the human encounter with God. Organized by genre, these selected films present different, surprising ways in which God shows up amid the messy circumstances of life.

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0802827950

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Catching Light

Looking for God in the Movies

By: Roy M. Anker

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Beautiful Light

Religious Meaning in Film

By: Roy M. Anker

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Religious Meaning in Film

By: Roy M. Anker

Though "religious" films usually don't get much respect in Hollywood, religion still regularly finds its way into the movies. In Beautiful Light Roy Anker seeks out the often unnoticed connections between film and religion and shows how even films that aren't overtly religious or Christian in their content can be filled with deep religious insights and spiritual meaning. Closely examining nine critically acclaimed films, including Magnolia, The Apostle, American Gigolo, and M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake, Anker analyzes the ways in which these movies explore what it means to be human—and what it means, as human beings, to wrestle with a sometimes unwieldy divine presence. Addressing questions of doubt and belief, despair and elation, hatred and love, Anker's work sheds "beautiful light" on some of Hollywood's most profound and memorable films.

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1467446793

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Self-Help and Popular Religion in Modern American Culture

An Interpretive Guide

By: Roy M. Anker

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Self-Help and Popular Religion in Modern American Culture

An Interpretive Guide

By: Roy M. Anker

The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book continues chronologically where the first left off. As with the first volume, this work focuses on the intersection of American history and popular religion and is intended as an introductory interpretive guide to major self-help figures and movements with origins in popular religious movements. This volume spans from Romanticism, the Gilded Age, and the history of Christian Science, with discussions of Mary Baker Patterson, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, and Mary Baker Eddy, through Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. Peale and Schuller, with the exception of Evangelist Billy Graham, constitute the public face of mainstream American Protestantism and bring this two-volume study to its conclusion in the second half of the 20th century. This reference will serve as a valuable research tool for American religion and popular culture scholars. Together with the first volume, Self-Help and Popular Religion in Early American Culture, these two meticulously researched volumes clearly define and present the broad scope of the self-help tradition as it pervades American culture and as it developed and was influenced by popular religion. An extensive bibliography is included.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313018219

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9780313018213

Of Pilgrims and Fire

When God Shows Up at the Movies

By: Roy M. Anker

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When God Shows Up at the Movies

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Of Pilgrims and Fire is an ideal complement to Roy Anker's earlier text, Catching Light-ideal for university classes and adult discussion groups and for general readers who want to sharpen their understanding and appreciation of the religious dimensions of film."-John R. May author of Nourishing Faith through Fiction --Book Jacket.

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0802865720

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The Power of the Periphery

How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World

By: Peder Anker

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The Power of the Periphery

How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World

By: Peder Anker

Examines how Norway has positioned itself as an alternative, environmentally-sound nation in a world filled with tension and instability.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108477569

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Real Writing

Paragraphs and Essays for College, Work, and Everyday Life

By: Susan Anker

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Real Writing

Paragraphs and Essays for College, Work, and Everyday Life

By: Susan Anker

With efficient and engaging instruction and a consistent focus on why writing matters in the real world, Real Writing delivers a powerful message to students: Good writing skills are both achievable and essential. Concise Four Basics boxes and engaging paragraph- and essay-writing chapters present writing instruction in clear, manageable increments. The Four Most Serious Errors and other sentence-level chapters cover grammar in a lively and supportive way, with abundant opportunities for practice and application. As always, Susan Anker encourages students to connect what they learn with their own goals and with the needs and expectations of the larger world. In Profiles of Success, former students, now employed in a variety of professions, speak frankly about their experiences in school and after graduation, with examples of the types of writing their current jobs require. In this edition, Anker does far more to build students' critical thinking, critical reading, and argument skills and adds innovative new assignments, readings, and visuals.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1457634600

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Real Writing with Readings

Paragraphs and Essays for College, Work, and Everyday Life

By: Susan Anker

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Paragraphs and Essays for College, Work, and Everyday Life

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Beautiful Light

By: Anker, Roy M.

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Beautiful Light

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Though "religious" films usually don't get much respect in Hollywood, religion still regularly finds its way into the movies. In Beautiful Light Roy Anker seeks out the often unnoticed connections between film and religion and shows how even films that aren't overtly religious or Christian in their content can be filled with deep religious insights and spiritual meaning. Closely examining nine critically acclaimed films, including Magnolia, The Apostle, American Gigolo, and M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake, Anker analyzes the ways in which these movies explore what it means to be human--and what it means, as human beings, to wrestle with a sometimes unwieldy divine presence. Addressing questions of doubt and belief, despair and elation, hatred and love, Anker's work sheds "beautiful light" on some of Hollywood's most profound and memorable films.

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