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This Day in Religious History, May 13th
1665 A statute was enacted in Rhode Island, offering freemanship with no specifically Christian requirements, thus effectively enfranchising Jews.
1839 Birth of William P. Mackey, a Scottish physician who later in life became a Presbyterian pastor. Mackey wrote several hymns during his life, including "Revive Us Again."
1917 Near Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children reported that Mary, the mother of Jesus, had appeared to them. Since 1930, this appearance has come to be known as Our Lady of Fatima. For more on this, see Fatima, Our Lady of in our library.
1925 In Tallahassee, Florida, the State legislature passed a bill requiring daily Bible readings in all public schools.
1981 In St. Peter's Square, Rome, Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in an assassination attempt. Following a long convalescence, however, John Paul resumed his world travels. For a good book on Pope John Paul II, see Pontiff in Winter in our library.
Throughout history, the Virgin Mary is reported to have appeared in various locations. This image of her is enshrined at Guadalupe, Mexico, where she appeared to a Mexican peasant. Photo courtesy of Accunet/AP Photo.
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Religion Virtual Collection: This is a combination of encyclopedias of religion, philosophy, unexplained phenomena, and multicultural customs and traditions. It combines many of the other listed databases into one for one comprehensive search.
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Academic One File: This is a good source of academic articles on religious/spirituality topics. Type in "theology" and receive a list of subheadings to choose from on the left hand side that will help to narrow your search. Or type in a more specific subject to reflect your interests. |
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Encyclopedia of Religion: A cross cultural approach which emphasizes religion's role in everyday life as well as its unique experience in specific cultures, this is the definitive work for the 21st century.
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Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained: Contains articles on the supernatural, witchcraft, magic and mysterious phenomena, with the history, people, practices, literature, television programs and movies related to these subjects. |
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New Catholic Encyclopedia: First place to turn for the Catholic answer to questions such as cloning, divorce, and reproductive technologies. Biographies of historical and contemporary religious figures, with thousands of photos, maps and illustrations are also included.
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Student Resource Center/ Articles about Religion and Spirituality: Student Resource Center is for all levels of students and articles are rated for levels of difficulty. Choose "religion" from the topics listed or enter a search term of your choice in the "basic search" box. |
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15 Secrets to a Wonderful Life: Mastering the Art of Positive Living: It is not enough to simply think positive thoughts; Christians must allow God's power to flow through them and into others by living positively. Through engaging personal narratives and stories, Youssef uses the book of 2 Corinthians as the biblical foundation for detailing 15 secrets of positive living, including overcoming timidity, extending and receiving forgiveness, leading by example, receiving blessings through self-sacrificial giving and combating pride and jealousy.
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99th Monkey: A spiritual journalist's misadventures with gurus, messiahs, sex, psychedelics, and other consciousness-raising experiments: Novelist, publisher and editor Sobel (Minyan) does a fine job making his 30-year quest for spiritual awakening widely identifiable with a funny, clear-eyed account that takes readers around the world and through a gauntlet of gurus, shamans, workshops and retreats. Sobel tours through Jerusalem, India and Brazil and though his spiritual journey doesn't provide any answers, it provides lots of engaging perspective on modern man's confounding array of ancient and contemporary fulfillment schemes. |
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American Angels: Useful Spirits in the Material World: Gardella explores the history of angels in America from Spanish colonialism and Puritan sermons to the modern angel craze that overtook the nation in the 1990s in the wake of Sophy Burnham's bestselling "A Book of Angels". He describes how they have been incorporated into everything from healing practices and child rearing to warding off evil and evoking love.
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Cold Tangerines: The author offers 40 short essays, each an exploration of something mundane and wonderful: getting pregnant, throwing parties, collecting champagne flutes. She recalls a breakup that deepened her relationship with God, and explains why moving into a fixer-upper helped her learn that God loves us as we are. A lovely, honest and wistful tone colors this work, an ode to living a life of gratitude and joy. |
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In the World But Not of It: Brett Grainger's grandparents, members of the Plymouth Brethren, believed devoutly that Jesus would return and rapture them to heaven; when he didn't, their lives collapsed. Using his powerful family history as a catalyst, he has crafted a chronicle of fundamentalism in American history, revealing it to be far richer and more complex than what the word evokes today.
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Me, Myself and Bob: A True Story of God, Dreams and Talking Vegetables: Phil Vischer's dream, known to the world as VeggieTales, changed the landscape of children's videos. But most people have no idea of the intense struggle its creator would endure as he desperately tried to build-then witnessed the tremendous fall-of a new media empire for God. Phil shares an amazing story that shows how God can use our failures and the death of a dream to point us toward true success. |
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Saving The Holy Sepulchre: Three major Christian traditions - Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Armenian Orthodox - each with jealously guarded claims to the church, struggled to restore one of the great shrines of civilization. It almost didn't happen. For centuries the communities had lived together in an atmosphere of tension and mistrust based on differences of theology, language, and culture. This tells the story of how it finally came together on the eve of Pope Paul VI's historic visit to the Holy Land in 1964.
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The New Christians: Dispatches From the Emergent Frontier: The Emergent movement is a postmodern and ecumenical form of Christianity which values inclusion as well as the biblical call to commmunity and engages in social and non-partisan political activism. The author descibes its chief characteristics and follows with narrative illustration and discussion to clarify this movement's main features. |
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