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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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Looking for God in the Movies

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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

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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Of Pilgrims and Fire

When God Shows Up at the Movies

By: Roy M. Anker

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Of Pilgrims and Fire

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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260

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0802865720

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9780802865724

Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure

By: Roy S. Gardner,Andrew L. Clark,Henry Dargie

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Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure

By: Roy S. Gardner,Andrew L. Clark,Henry Dargie

Written by internationally renowned leaders in their field and relevant to all practicing clinicians, this textbook comprehensively covers all aspects of heart failure, and suggests the optimal evidence-based management for heart failure patients.

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Oxford University Press

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0199577722

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Diseases of Globalization

Socioeconomic Transition and Health

By: Christine McMurray,Roy Smith

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Diseases of Globalization

Socioeconomic Transition and Health

By: Christine McMurray,Roy Smith

The emergence of a global economy has led to the erosion of local autonomy and national sovereignty with an associated emphasis on the spread of liberal, free-market economics. A clear divide is appearing between those benefiting from and those disadvantaged by this process. Among the most important consequences are changes in the patterns of health and the prevalence of disease. While infant mortality is declining in most countries, and many formerly prevalent diseases are being successfully tackled, the move from subsistence to cash economies brings with it changes in diet, alcohol consumption and high levels of smoking; with the result that non-communicable, 'lifestyle illnesses' such as heart disease and diabetes are spreading rapidly. Similarly, growing divisions of wealth add to the problem, bringing diseases relating to poverty and malnourishment as well as those caused by affluence and over-consumption. Issues covered in this book include equitable and sustainable modernization, the determinants of health, the process of marginalization, and survival strategies on the periphery. The authors draw on primary case study material, largely from societies in the Pacific region undergoing modernization, to provide invaluable information for tracking and assessing the full impacts of these changes.

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Routledge

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1134200293

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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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Catching Light

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Self-Help and Popular Religion in Modern American Culture

Self-Help and Popular Religion in Modern American Culture

Beautiful Light

Beautiful Light

Of Pilgrims and Fire

Of Pilgrims and Fire

Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure

Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure

Diseases of Globalization

Diseases of Globalization

Beautiful Light

Beautiful Light

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