Libraries Open House 2015
Take a tour for a chance to win $100! Tour both libraries and you can enter to win twice.
Tour times: Greenfield- 2:15, 3:00, 3:30 Music- 4:10, 4:40
Instagram Photo Booth
Take a tour for a chance to win $100! Tour both libraries and you can enter to win twice.
Tour times: Greenfield- 2:15, 3:00, 3:30 Music- 4:10, 4:40
Instagram Photo Booth
Karen Armstrong’s A History of God is a great read for anyone interested in religion and its effect on societies and collective human psychology. She takes the reader on a historical tour of the three major “Abrahamic” faiths – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – and traces their development through the ages. We hear of a wide range of religious experiences, past and present: the shatteringly transcendent experiences of the Israelite prophets; the calm, expansive consciousness of Sufi mystics; the agony and zealousness of the Protestant reformers; the cool skepticism of rationalists; and what they have meant for people’s lives. She focuses her study on several different ways of conceiving of the idea of “God” that have persisted throughout the history of monotheism, and concludes it with a thoughtful discussion on what, if any, idea of “God” is a healthy one for modern people to engage with. I recommend this book to believers and skeptics alike who share a curiosity about how we handle the daunting yet alluring practice of making sense of the vast world beyond the bounds of our ordinary consciousness.
You know, just some light summer reading.
This book is available in the Greenfield Library Open Stacks, at 291.211 Ar57h 1994
-Mike Romano
Circulation Assistant
Adrien Segal will be speaking Thursday, July 16, 2015 at noon as part of the MFA Studio Art Lecture Series.
To explore resources in furniture design, do a subject search in the library catalog (library.uarts.edu) for any of the following terms:
Furniture
Furniture Design
Furniture Making
Wood Carving
Woodwork
The Libraries also subscribe to Fine Woodworking, available in the current periodicals section of the Greenfield Library. Older issues are available to view in the Vault.
Amelia Biewald will be speaking Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at noon as part of the MFA Studio Art Lecture Series.
Her work is featured in Jerome 05 : Five Jerome Artists : An Exhibition of Work by the 1999-2000 MCAD/Jerome Fellowship Recipients, 2000: October 6. – November 12., held in the Libraries’ collection.
Images: http://www.ameliabiewald.com/