Freedom from war : nonsectarian pacifism, 1814-1914 / by Brock, Peter, 1920-2006

Table of Contents: “…Tolstoyan war resisters in Russia -- Tolstoyan war resisters in Bulgaria and the Netherlands -- Tolstoyism, cultural nationalism, and conscientiouos objection : a Slovak case study -- Nonviolent anarchism in Austria-Hungary -- Gandhi in South Africa : Ahimsa, war, and Satyagraha -- The dawn of Christian pacifism in Japan -- Nonsectarian pacifism in Britain, 1885-1914 -- The dilemmas of nonsectarian pacifism in the United States, 1865-1914.…”


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Heaven happens here : life can be happy--heaven can be assured; a book for today (nonsectarian) based on a Christian philosophy of life. by Walker, Grace Mathews

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School and college credit for outside Bible study : a survey of a nonsectarian movement to encourage Bible study / by Wood, Clarence Ashton

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Prayers in public schools and other matters : hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, on S.J. Res. 205, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to permit the offering of prayers in public schools ; S.J. Res. 206, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to permit the use of prayer in public schools ; S.J. Res. 207, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States permitting the offering of prayers and the reading of the Bible in public schools in the United States and relating to the right of a state to enact legislation on the basis of its own public policy on questions of decency and morality ; S. Con. Res. 81, that it is the sense of Congress that the designation by a public school authority of a nonsectarian prayer does not constitute an establishment of religion [and] S....

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Indestructible truth : the living spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism by Ray, Reginald A.

Table of Contents: “…Modern traditions: the Ri-me (Nonsectarian) Movement --…”


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Indestructible truth : the living spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism by Ray, Reginald A.

Table of Contents: “…Modern Traditions: The Ri-me (Nonsectarian) Movement --…”


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Spirituality in Higher Education

Table of Contents: “…Faculty perspective on spirituality, teaching, and learning on a nonsectarian campus : gleanings from a book group /…”


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Alternative schooling and school choice

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Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by Powers, John, 1957-

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The second disestablishment : church and state in nineteenth-century America by Green, Steven K. (Steven Keith), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The school question: The rise of nonsectarianism -- The secularization of nonsectarianism -- V. …”


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The Bible, the school, and the Constitution : the clash that shaped the modern church-state doctrine by Green, Steven K. (Steven Keith), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The rise of nonsectarian public education -- The development of the "No-Funding Principle" -- The Cincinnati "Bible War" of 1869-1873 -- "The Amendmentists" -- The Blaine Amendment -- The legacy of the school question.…”


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Buddha's teachings

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Winning Lebanon : youth politics, populism and the production of sectarian violence, 1920-1958 by Baun, Dylan, 1986-

Table of Contents: “…The future of young men: the construction and performance of youth politics -- Producing space: celebrations of organizational life and death -- Broadening the base: the poor, the countryside, women, and abroad -- In defense of Lebanon: the nonsectarian causes of the 1958 war - Epilogue: Centering youth, remembering and globalizing 1958.…”


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Charter Schools. by Parra, Cristina

The Bible, religion, and the public schools by Boles, Donald E. (Donald Edward), 1926-2001

Table of Contents: “…Historical backgrounds : Colonial concepts ; Post revolutionary war concepts ; Attitudes of the founding fathers ; Early nineteenth century legal aspects ; Ante Bellum period and the secular public schools ; Post civil war concepts -- State constitutions and statutes : Early state constitutions ; Present constitutional provisions ; Statutes prohibiting sectarian instruction and influence ; Statutes regarding the Bible reading -- The legality of Bible reading : The Bible is nonsectarian ; Historical investigations ; The Kings James Version is nonsectarian ; The Bible and moral instruction ; The Bible as a textbook ; Bible reading and compulsory attendance ; Dissents and divergences ; The Doremus case ; The Murray case ; The Unites States Supreme Court and the Murray case -- The illegality of Bible reading : Historical backgrounds ; Dissents and divergences ; The Bible is sectarian ; The King James Version is sectarian ; The Bible and moral instruction ; The Bible as a textbook ; Bible reading and compulsory attendance ; The Schempp case ; The United States Supreme Court and the Schempp case ; The Schempp case retried ; The United States Supreme Court's last word -- Allied problems in religious education : Baccalaureate exercises ; Religious instruction at state universities ; Church control over public schools ; Wearing of distinctive religious garb ; Released and dismissed time: the McCollum case, the Zorach case ; Classroom prayer: the Engel case ; Comment by Justice Brennan concerning religious education ; Miscellany -- Religious group attitudes and pressure : The Roman Catholic position ; Jewish attitudes ; Protestant attitudes ; Other protestant views toward Church-state relations ; The Clergy's response to the Schempp case -- Educator attitudes : Views of United States Commissioners of education ; Teaching religion for the sake of the religion ; The Bible as history and literature ; Bible reading and crime ; Studies testing the effects of religious instruction ; Public officials and the Bible ; Effects of the Schempp case ; The AASA commission report -- The Court, the Becker Amendment, and Congress : The Clergy and the Becker Amendment ; Educator attitudes toward the Becker Amendment ; Interest group reactions ; Turning of the tide -- Where we stand : The contemporary scene.…”


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Awakening the Buddha within : eight steps to enlightenment : Tibetan wisdom for the Western world by Das, Surya

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Hegel, freedom, and modernity by Westphal, Merold

Table of Contents: “…The basic theory of freedom -- Hegel's theory of the concept -- Hegel, human rights, and the hungry -- Hegel's radical idealism: family and state as ethical communities -- Donagan's critique of Sittlichkeit -- The failure of Nerve -- Dialectic and intersubjectivity -- Hegel and Gadamer -- Hegel and Husserl: transcendental phenomenology and the revolution yet awaited -- The search for a nonsectarian spirituality of community -- Hegel, Hinduism, and freedom -- Hegel and the reformation -- Hegel, the old secularism, and the new theocracy -- Hegel's theory of religious knowledge -- Hegel, Pannenberg, and Hermeneutics -- Hegel, Tillich, and the Secular.…”


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Middle beyond extremes : Maitreya's Madhyãntavibhãga with commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham by Maitreyanātha

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Diachronic studies on the languages of the Anabaptists

Table of Contents: “…Moelleken -- A tentative theory of explanation for the language shift among the Mennonites in the Valley of La Bruche / Michèle Wolff -- Hatches, matches, and dispatches / Werner Enninger -- Dialect mixing and/or convergence / Joachim Raith -- Language change and enabling strategies of Pennsylvania Anabaptists / Marion Lois Huffines -- The New Order Amish in Ohio / Silke Van Ness -- Creating grammar examples from Pennsylvania German, Ontario / Kate Burridge -- The periphrastic duh construction in Anabaptist and nonsectarian Pennsylvania German / John R. Costello -- Old Order Amish verbal behavior as a reflection of cultural convergence / Mark L. …”


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A concise introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by Powers, John, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The Indian background -- Origins of Tibetan Buddhism -- The Buddha -- The Buddha's teaching career -- Mahayana -- Origins -- Mahayana doctrines -- The bodhisattva path -- Some important Buddhist doctrines -- Karma and rebirth -- Dependent arising -- Meditation -- The role of meditation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism -- Stabilizing and analytical meditation -- The five Buddhist paths -- Tantra -- The place of the Tantras in Buddhist literature -- Tantra as a branch of Mahayana -- Tantric symbols -- Entering Tantric practice -- The four classes of Tantra -- The preliminary practices -- Death and dying in Tibetan Buddhism -- The four orders -- Similarities and differences -- The nonsectarian movement -- Nyingma -- Sakya -- Kagyu -- Geluk.…”


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