03411cam a2200349 4500 530518852 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781452620480 1452620482 c38789b8-bbf6-4de3-9d33-49204a83cb51 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 524449 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kugel, James L. In the Valley of the Shadow [Libby] : On the Foundations of Religious Belief. Tantor Media, Inc., 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 226MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 225MB. Biography & Autobiography. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. When James L. Kugel, one of the world's leading biblical scholars, was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal form of cancer, he said, "I was, of course, disturbed and worried. But the main change in my state of mind was that the background music suddenly stopped. Now I was just down to myself, one little person, sitting in the late summer sun, with only a few things left to do." He recognized that same feeling of smallness expressed in many early religious writings, and in the months that followed, he began a journey of discovery, reexamining the most basic questions about the origins of religion and its universality, which had taken on immediate and vital importance for him. Weaving reflections on his own struggle-the love of his family became "as tangible as bread"-with the writings of anthropologists, neuroscientists, and poets, he leads listeners from prehistoric religious practices to the religious doubts of modern times via an amazing array of topics: the eerie starkness of medieval cathedral architecture; the "looming Outside" revealed in African witchcraft; biblical encounters with angels; gospel album covers; and-through it all-the peculiar "sense of smallness" that, he argues, characterizes how all humans used to conceive of themselves. Kugel's look at the whole phenomenon of religion is rigorously honest, often funny, sometimes skeptical, but ultimately a deeply moving affirmation of faith in God. Believers and doubters alike will be struck by its combination of objective scholarship and poetic insight-a beautifully crafted consideration of life's greatest mystery. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Wilson George K. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1219-1/524449-InTheValleyOfTheShadow.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1219-1/524449-InTheValleyOfTheShadow.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C38789B8-BBF6-4DE3-9D33-49204A83CB51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1219-1/524449-InTheValleyOfTheShadow.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1219-1/524449-InTheValleyOfTheShadow.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C38789B8-BBF6-4DE3-9D33-49204A83CB51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)