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Inside the Koran (2009)

aka: Qur’An, The

Director

Antony Thomas

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 94 minutes), $24.95

Feature-length documentary from director Antony Thomas, attempting to analyse and demystify what the central religious text of Islam says about issues such as equality, punishment, peace, faith and suicide...

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Mahabharat (2003)

Subject

Literature; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £59.99

A re-creation of the Indian epic condensed from the original 90 hours as shown on television in India to 15 hours. It contains the entire Bhagavad Gita ("Song of Lord Krishna", "Song of God") which forms...

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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1947 Video)

aka: Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £24.00

The material was recorded by Maya Deren when she went to Haiti on four trips to make a film of Haitian dance. Having become increasingly involved with the voodoo experience she abandoned her original...

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Perspectives on Suffering (1981 Audio)

Subject

Medical sciences; Philosophy; Psychology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, 8 audiocassettes. 4 hrs 48 min., 1997 sale: £22.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A series of sixteen talks dealing with the subject of suffering from the diverse points of view of philosophers, theologians, psychologists and medical practitioners. Tackles some of the practical questions...

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Christianity: Characters and Chronicles (2017)

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), £95.00

Educational DVD. An exploration of Christianity from its roots in Judaism to the liberal debates of today. These films are tailored to A-Level Religious Studies and offer a selection of generic material for...

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What is the Old Testament? (2 Parts) (1981 Audio)

Producer

I McPherson

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 11, 12 min.

Part 1: Complex nature of Old Testament; text of Old Testament; law; prophesy and history within Old Testament context. Part 2: Technical terms in Old Testament e.g., myth, apocalyptic; skills in looking up...

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To Find Our Life: The Peyote Hunt of the Huichols of Mexico (1969 Film)

Director

Peter T Furst

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About a pivotal event of Huichol religious and ritual life, a pilgrimage led by a Shaman to obtain peyote, a hallucinogenic drug used for religious purposes which is present in a particular type of cactus....

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Key Moments in the ‘Commedia’ 1: Inferno I, 1 - 3

Subject

Italian studies; Literature

Podcast in which Matthew Traherne of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies considers the first three lines of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Traherne sets the lines in context, then reads them, first in Italian,...

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Talmud (2007)

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 230 minutes), £24.99

The Talmud is the second part of the Torah (the Old Testament), founded on the principles of tradition and oral transmission. A body of legal, legendary or philosophical texts, it is a mixture of singular...

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English Civil War, The 2 (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

An multimedia survey of the military, social, political and religious aspects of the English civil war. Includes filmed re-creations of key events and the complete text of S R Gardiner’s ‘History of the...

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