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1 MCC LIBRARIES RESOURCES FOR WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY WEEK 2015 INTERFAITH HARMONY, RELIGIOUS MULTICULTURALISM, & OVERVIEWS OF WORLD RELIGIONS DCC Learning Commons City VIDEO BL87.G Aigret, Jaimée M. Great World Religions. Chantilly: Teaching Co., DVD. Cornille, Catherine, ed. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, Web. 15 Jan < Heft, James, ed. Passing on the Faith: Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. New York: Fordham UP, Web. 15 Jan < LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL82.P (3 rd floor) Hinnells, John R., ed. The Penguin Handbook of the World s Living Religions. London: Penguin, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - HQ1031.M (3 rd floor); DCC Learning Commons City HQ1031.M Kiesbye, Stefan, ed. Mixed Heritage. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL80.3.P (3 rd floor); DCC Learning Commons - City BL80.3.P Prothero, Stephen R. God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World--And Why Their Differences Matter. New York: HarperOne, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL2525.N (3 rd floor) Prothero, Stephen R., ed. A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL2525.P (3 rd floor) Putnam, Robert D., and David E. Campbell. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. New York: Simon & Schuster, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL87.W v.1-4 (3 rd floor) Sharma, Arvind, ed. The World s Religions after September 11. Westport: Praeger, Sharot, Stephen. A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosos, Priests, and Popular Religion. New York: New York UP, Web. 15 Jan < Riggs, Thomas, ed. The Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 3 rd ed. Detroit: Gale/Cengage Learning, Web. 15 Jan < 1

2 AFRICAN RELIGIONS LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - Ref BL2400.E (3 rd floor) Asante, Molefi K., and Ama Mazama, eds. Encyclopedia of African Religion. Los Angeles: SAGE, DCC Learning Commons - City Ref BL E Glazier, Stephen D., ed. Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions. New York: Routledge, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL2400.M (3 rd floor) Mbiti, John S. Introduction to African Religion. 2nd rev. ed. Oxford: Heinemann Educational, ATHEISM Aronson. Ronald. Living without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided. Berkeley: Counterpoint, Web. 15 Jan < LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL B (3 rd floor); DCC Learning Commons - City BL B Baggini, Julian. Atheism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, Blackford, Russell, and Udo Schuklenk. 50 Great Myths about Atheism. Hoboken: John Wiley, Web. 15 Jan < BAHAISM DCC Learning Commons - City BP327.A Adamson, Hugh C. Historical Dictionary of the Bahá í Faith. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - HHRC BP365.F (4 th floor check out key at Service Desk on main floor) Faizi, Gloria. The Baháʾí Faith: An Introduc8on. Rev. Indian ed. New Delhi: Baháʾí Publishing Trust, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BP350.G (3 rd floor) Garlington, William. The Baha i Faith in America. Westport: Praeger Publishers, BUDDHISM LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BQ4022.K (3 rd floor); DCC Learning Commons - City BQ4022.K Keown, Damien. Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - Ref BQ130.K (3 rd floor) Keown, Damien. A Dictionary of Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford UP, Olson, Carl. The Different Paths of Buddhism: A Narrative-Historical Introduction. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, Web. 15 Jan < CHRISTIANITY (GENERAL) LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - Ref BR157.W (3 rd floor) Barrett, David B. World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, Chryssides, George D. Christianity Today. London: Continuum, Web. 15 Jan < 2

3 DCC Learning Commons - City BR145.3.M MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. New York: Viking, Catholicism LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BX880.B (3 rd floor); DCC Learning Commons - City BX880.B Buckley, James Joseph, Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, and Trent Pomplun. The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism. Malden, MA: Blackwell, Flinn, Frank K. Encyclopedia of Catholicism. New York: Facts On File, Web. 15 Jan < Portmann, John. Catholic Culture in the USA: In and Out of Church. London: Continuum International, Web. 15 Jan < Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism) LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BX8611.B Bowman, Matthew Burton. The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith. New York: Random House, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - Ref BX E v.1-4; DCC Learning Commons - City Ref BX E v.1-5 Ludlow, Daniel H., ed. Encyclopedia of Mormonism. New York: Macmillan, Reeve, W. Paul, and Ardis E. Parshall, eds. Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, Web. 15 Jan < Protestantism Marty, Martin E. The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism. Athens: University of Georgia Press, Web. 15 Jan < Melton, J. Gordon, ed. Encyclopedia of Protestantism. New York: Facts On File, Web. 15 Jan < LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BX N Noll, Mark A. Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, Society of Friends (Quakerism) DCC Learning Commons - City BX7611.A Abbott, Margery Post, et al. The A to Z of the Friends (Quakers). Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BX D (3 rd floor print; also e-book) Dandelion, Pink. The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, Web. 15 Jan < Hamm, Thomas D. The Quakers in America. New York: Columbia UP, Web. 15 Jan < 3

4 CONFUCIANISM LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL1852.B Berthrong, John H., and and Evelyn Nagai Berthrong. Confucianism: A Short Introduction. Oxford: Oneworld, Goldin, Paul Rakita. Confucianism. Durham: Acumen, Web. 15 Jan < Yao, Xinzhong. An Introduction to Confucianism. New York: Cambridge UP, Web. 15 Jan < HINDUISM LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL1202.B Flood, Gavin D., ed. The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. Malden: Blackwell, Jones, Constance, and James D. Ryan. Encyclopedia of Hinduism. New York: Facts On File, Web. 15 Jan < Whaling, Frank. Understanding Hinduism. Edinburgh: Dunedin, Web. 15 Jan < ISLAM LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BP67.U6 B Barrett, Paul. American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, DCC Learning Commons - City BP161.3.I Islamic Beliefs, Practices, and Cultures. Tarrytown: Marshall Cavendish Reference, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - Ref BP40.E v.1-2 Martin, Richard C., ed. Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, McCloud, Aminah Beverly, Scott W. Hibbard, and Laith Saud, eds. An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, Web. 15 Jan < JUDAISM LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - E F Grunberger, Michael W. From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America. New York: George Braziller, DCC Learning Commons - City E184.J5 H Heilman, Samuel C. Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, Karesh, Sara E., and Mitchell M. Hurvitz. Encyclopedia of Judaism. New York: Facts on File, Web. 15 Jan < 4

5 LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BM561.R Robinson, George. Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals. New York: Pocket Books, NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS DCC Learning Commons - City E98.R3 H Hartz, Paula. Native American Religions. New York: Facts on File, DCC Learning Commons - City Ref E98.R3 H Hirschfelder, Arlene B., and Paulette Molin. The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: An Introduction. New York: Facts on File, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - E98.R3 P Paper, Jordan D. Native North American Religious Traditions: Dancing for Life. Westport: Praeger, SHINTO Picken, Stuart D. B. Historical Dictionary of Shinto. Web. 15 Jan < LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL2220.S Sonnier, Suzanne. Shinto, Spirits, and Shrines: Religion in Japan. Detroit: Lucent Books, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL2221.Y Yamakage, Motohisa. The Essence of Shinto: Japan s Spiritual Heart. Tokyo: Kodansha International, SIKHISM DCC Learning Commons - City BL M McLeod, W. H. Historical Dictionary of Sikhism. 2 nd ed. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton) - BL2018.N Nesbitt, Eleanor M. Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur. Sikhism: An Introduction. London: I.B. Tauris, Web. 15 Jan < TAOISM (DAOISM) Littlejohn, Ronnie L. Daoism: An Introduction. London: I.B. Tauris, Web. 15 Jan < DCC Learning Commons - City BL1923.P Pas, Julian F. The A to Z of Taoism. Rev. ed. Lanham: Scarecrow Press,

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