The Religion and Spirituality Collection
The Religion and Spirituality Collection explores the many different ways that people around the world practice and express their spirituality. The collection includes the IN THE LIGHT OF REVERENCE series, about Native Americans struggling to protect their sacred places and WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE, the six-part history of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Other aspects of Christianity are explored in LEFT BEHIND IN LOUISIANA (evangelcialism on the Gulf Coast), SONS OF PERDITION (teenages escaping the secretive FLDS group. and THE VIRGIN, THE COPTS AND ME, about Egypt's Copt community. Several classic titles from Kartemquin Films explores grassroots Catholicism in Chicago in the 1960s. The collection has especially rich content about Islam, films about Islam and women (including A VEILED REVOLUTION, CRIMES OF HONOR and DISHONORED), and the fascinating story of Leopold Weiss's conversion to Islam. ANGRY MONK tells the story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel; IN THE NAME OF GOD looks the Hindu fundamentalism; THE DHAMMA BROTHERS tells the story of the influence of an ancient meditation program on a maximum security prison.
This remarkable collection is a must have for any program teaching about religion and spirituality around the world today.
The Religion and Spirituality Collection includes the following titles:
There Are Jews Here, a film by Brad Lichtenstein and Morgan Johnson, follows the untold stories of four once thriving American Jewish communities that are now barely holding on. Struggling with aging congregants and dwindling interest, families are moving to larger cities with more robust congregations and vibrant Jewish life.
A music video that reworks the epic Ramayana story to critique the caste and gender oppression implicit in it.
A film about men, religion and violence.
A film about men, religion and violence.
Focuses on the struggle of India’s Dalits, who had been abhorred as “untouchables,” denied education and treated as bonded labour for centuries.
Documents the violence and terror in Punjab, India – a land torn apart by religious fundamentalists and a repressive government.
Focuses on the campaign waged by the militant Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to destroy a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya said to have been built by Babar, the first Mughal Emperor of India.
A chilling account of how murder and mind control are being applied to systematically dismantle secular democracy in India today (part 1).
A chilling account of how murder and mind control are being applied to systematically dismantle secular democracy in India today (part 2).
A journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism and war.
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