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The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology. by Fergusson, David

Table of Contents: “…17 Reformed Theology in Scotland and the Netherlands18 Neo-Scholasticism; 19 The Bible and Literary Interpretation; 20 Skeptics and Anti-Theologians; 21 History of Religion School; 22 The Bible and Theology; 23 Liberal Theology in Germany; 24 Catholic Modernism; Index.…”
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Handbook of religion and health by Koenig, Harold G. (Harold George), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…I. Background. A history of religion, medicine, and health care -- Definitions -- II. …”

City at the point : essays on the social history of Pittsburgh

Table of Contents: “…Ingham -- Pittsburgh and the uses of social welfare history / Roy Lubove -- The soul of the city : A social history of religion in Pittsburgh / Linda K. Pritchard -- Community-building and occupational mobility in Pittsburgh, 1880-1960 / Michael P. …”
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Strengthening Religious Tolerance for a Secure Civil Society in Albania and the Southern Balkans. by Pettifer, J.

Table of Contents: “…General Considerations on Albanian Religion and Its History; Albanian Religion Through Judicial Documents; Religious Divergences in Albania and Balkan Security; "Clash of Civilization'' -- A Paradox or a Reality!? …”
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Mississippi Praying : Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975. by Dupont, Carolyn Renée

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: History, White Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement; 1 Segregation and the Religious Worlds of White Mississippians; 2 Conversations about Race in the Post-War World; 3 Responding to Brown: The Recalcitrant Parish; 4 "A Strange and Serious Christian Heresy": Massive Resistance and the Religious Defense of Segregation; 5 "Ask for the Old Paths": Mississippi's Southern Baptists and Segregation; 6 "Born of Conviction": The Travail of Mississippi Methodism.…”
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The Old Testament : canon, history, and literature by Nelson, Richard D. (Richard Donald), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Laying the groundwork -- Old Testament and Hebrew Bible as Scripture -- Geography, history, and religion -- Part II. Torah -- Investigating the Pentateuch -- Creation: Genesis 1-3 -- Origins: Genesis 4:1-11:9 -- Abraham and his descendants -- Exodus -- Leviticus and Numbers -- Deuteronomy -- Part III Former prophets -- Joshua -- Judges -- 1 and 2 Samuel -- Book of Kings and the Story of Solomon -- 1 and 2 Kings and the History of Israel and Judah -- Part IV: Latter prophets -- Prophets and prophecy -- Isaiah scroll -- Catastrophe and exile: Jeremiah and Ezekiel -- Prophets of social justice: Amos, Hosea, and Micah -- Judah in the Orbit of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia -- Part V: Writings -- Psalms -- Optimistic and pessimistic wisdom: Proverbs and Job -- Five scrolls -- Ezra-Nehemiah and 1 and 2 Chronicles -- Daniel -- Part VI: Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books -- Spellbinding and Profound Wisdom -- 26: 1 and 2 Maccabees -- Chronology of Significant Events -- Vocabulary.…”
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Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals by Hume, David, 1711-1776

Forming God : divine anthropomorphism in the Pentateuch by Knafl, Anne Katherine

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The father of Jewish mysticism : the writing of Gershom Scholem by Weidner, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Producing history : Scholem's scholarship. History of religion : a paradigm -- Myth and mysticism : fundamental concepts -- Gnosticism, misunderstanding, and symbolism : more operative terms? …”
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Mani at the court of the Persian kings : studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex by Gardner, Iain, BeDuhn, Jason, Dilley, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Manichaeism and the History of Religions; Chapter 8. 'Hell Exists, and We Have Seen the Place Where It Is': Rapture and Religious Competition in Sasanian Iran (Dilley); Chapter 9. …”
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Living Shiʻ ism : instances of ritualisation among Islamist men in contemporary Iran by Thurfjell, David

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE POINTS OF DEPARTURE -- The Beginning -- The Informants -- My Position in the Community -- Purpose and Disposition -- History of Religions and Iranian Studies -- CHAPTER TWO SETTING THE SCENE -- The Macroscene -- The Microscene -- Material -- CHAPTER THREE EMBODYING VIRTUE -- The Body and Embodimentâ€?…”
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Hegel and history

Table of Contents: “…/ Andrew Buchwalter -- Hegel's new world : history, freedom, and race / Sûrya Parekh -- The historicity of morality, ethical life, and politics -- Spirit without the form of self : on Hegel's reading of Greek antiquity / Allegra de Laurentiis -- The historicity of ethical categories : the dynamic of moral imputation in Hegel's account of history / Jason Howard -- The mechanization of labor and the birth of modern ethicality in Hegel's Jena political writings / Nathan Ross -- Hegel's claim about democracy and his philosophy of history / Mark Tunick -- The philosophy of history and religion -- Hegel's philosophy of world history as theodicy : on evil and freedom / Pierre Chételat -- Hegel's philosophy of history and kabbalist eschatology / Glenn Magee.…”
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Egypt, trunk of the tree : a modern survey of an ancient land by Najovits, Simson R.

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Seeing things their way : intellectual history and the return of religion

Table of Contents: “…Noll -- Intellectual history and religion in modern Britain / Alister Chapman -- Response: The history of ideas and the study of religion / David W. …”
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Being and becoming Hausa : interdisciplinary perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Hausa identity : language, history and religion / Anne Haour and Benedetta Rossi -- The role of comparative/historical linguistics in reconstructing the past : what borrowed and inherited words tell us about the early history of Hausa / Philip J. …”
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Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods : Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths. by McDermott, Gerald R.

Table of Contents: “…Trickle-Down Revelation and Religious Entropy: The Nature and History of Religion; 6. Parables in All Nations: Typology and the Religions; 7. …”
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Seeing things their way : intellectual history and the return of religion

Table of Contents: “…Noll -- Intellectual history and religion in modern Britain / Alister Chapman -- Response: The history of ideas and the study of religion / David W. …”
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Seeing things their way : intellectual history and the return of religion

Table of Contents: “…Noll -- Intellectual history and religion in modern Britain / Alister Chapman -- Response: The history of ideas and the study of religion / David W. …”

The religious Enlightenment : Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna by Sorkin, David Jan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Enlightenment or enlightenments -- The religious enlightenment -- Reasonableness -- Toleration --The public sphere -- State nexus -- The enlightenment spectrum -- Brant Broughton, London, Gloucester : William Warburton's "heroic moderation" : Natural right and toleration -- History -- Established religion -- Justification, philosophy, and science -- Secular culture -- Moderation in decline -- Conclusion -- Geneva : Jacob Vernet's "middle way" : Theology -- Politics -- The Enlightenment and the philosophes -- Geneva transformed -- Halle : Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten's "vital knowledge" : "The union with God" -- Exegesis -- History, sacred and secular -- Natural right and toleration -- Neology and the state -- Berlin : Moses Mendelssohn's "vital script" : Intellectual renewal : philosophy -- Intellectual renewal : exegesis -- "Civic acceptance" and "divine legislation" -- "Socrates of Berlin" -- Haskalah and beyond -- Conclusion -- Vienna-Linz : Joseph Valentin Eybel's "reasonable doctrine" : Church law -- Linz and Joseph II -- "True devotion" -- Revolution -- Conclusion -- Toul-Paris-Lyon : Adrien Lamourette's "luminous side of faith" : Where France differed -- Catholicism -- The 1780s -- Theology -- Revolution, 1789-91 -- Revolution, 1791-94 -- Conclusion.…”

Black sun : depression and melancholia by Kristeva, Julia, 1941-

The New Cold War

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Things Japanese : Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan. by Chamberlain, Basil Hall

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Etruscology

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Divine Doppelgängers YHWH's Ancient Look-Alikes. by Cornell, Collin

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: God and the Gods: History of Religion as an Approach and Context for Bible and Theology -- Chapter 2: Canaan-Israel-Christianity: The Case for a Vertical Ecumenism -- Chapter 3: More Than One God? …”
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Egypt, trunk of the tree : a modern survey of an ancient land. / Consequences by Najovits, Simson R.

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The Routledge History of Latin American Culture by Salomon, Carlos Manuel

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A Garland of Feminist Reflections : Forty Years of Religious Exploration. by Gross, Rita M.

Table of Contents: “…Androcentrism and Androgyny in the Methodology of History of Religions; 3. Where Have We Been? Where Do We Need to Go?…”
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Around the world in 80 faiths.

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Normative and sectarian Judaism in the Second Temple period by Weinfeld, Moshe

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God? Very Probably : Five Rational Ways to Think about the Question of a God. by Nelson, Robert H.

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History of scholarship : a selection of papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute

Table of Contents: “…Spencer, Maimonides, and the History of Religion -- 9. Anglican Scholarship Gone Mad? …”
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Wisdom and Psalms

Table of Contents: “…Feminists read the Psalms -- 'O God, hear my prayer' : Psalm 55 and violence against women / Ulrike Bail -- 'Under the shadow of your wings' : the metaphor of God's wings in the Psalms, Exodus 19.4, Deuteronomy 32.11 and Malachi 3.20, as seen through the perspectives of feminism and the history of religion / Silvia Schroer -- Hearing the cries unspoken : an intertextual-feminist reading of Psalm 109 / Beth LaNeel Tanner.…”
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Making histories in museums

Table of Contents: “…9 Cleaning Up the Coal-Face and Doing Out the Kitchen: The Interpretation of Work and Workers in Wales10 Hard Men, Hard Facts and Heavy Metal: Making Histories of Technology; 11 Making City Histories; 12 Travellers'' Boots, Body-Moulding, Rubber Fetish Clothes: Making Histories of Sub-cultures; 13 Making Histories of Wars; 14 Making Histories of Sexuality; 15 Making Culturally Diverse Histories; 16 Making Histories of Religion; 17 Making Histories from Archaeology; 18 History and Folklore; 19 Making the History Curriculum.…”
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Guide to the study of ancient magic

Table of Contents: “…Ancient magic in a new key: refining an exotic discipline in the history of religions / David Frankfurter -- The plan of this volume / David Frankfurter -- Introduction / David Frankfurter -- Iran / Albert de Jong -- Egypt / Jacco Dieleman -- Greece / Fritz Graf -- Ancient Israel and early Judaism / Yuval Harari -- Rome and the Roman empire / Magali Bailliot -- Early Christianity / Joseph E. …”
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Interdisciplinary handbook of trauma and culture

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Representations of Trauma -- Trauma and Literature: The Postmodern Option-Franz Kafka and Cormac Mccarthy -- Cultural Trauma and the Media -- Television: A Traumatic Culture -- Popular Trauma Culture: The Pain of Others Between Holocaust Tropes and Kitsch-Sentimental Melodrama -- The Trauma of Modernism: Between Existential Indeterminacy and Allegoresis -- Before Recognition: On the Aesthetics of Aftermath -- From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Comics and Animation as Subversive Agents of Memory in Japan -- Performative Recollection: Koizumi Meiro Representations of Kamikaze Pilots and the Trauma of Asia-Pacific War in Japan -- Architecture and Trauma -- Art as the Transport-Station of Trauma -- Part II: Theory of Trauma -- The Trauma of Philosophy -- Irresponsible Nonsense: An Epistemological and Ethical Critique of Postmodern Trauma Theory -- The Death of the Witness in the Era of Testimony: Primo Levi and Georges Perec -- Walking, Walking Out and Walking Through: Transitional Space and Traumatic Time -- Trauma and Monotheism: Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism and the Possibility of Writing a Traumatic History of Religion -- The Crisis of Manhood -- Laius Complex and Shocks of Maternality: With Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath -- Fear, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Clinical, Neurobiological, and Cultural Perspectives -- Part III: Case Studies of Collective Trauma -- Some Reflections on Transmitting the Memory of the Holocaust and its Implications, Particularly in Israel -- Placing Collective Trauma within its Social Context: the Case of 9/11 Attacks -- Masculinity, Spirituality, and Male Wartime Sexual Trauma -- Killing the Killer: Rampage and Gun Rights as a Syndrome -- Loss, Traumatic Bereavement and Mourning Culture: The Israel Example -- Fear and Silence in Burma and Indonesia: Comparing Two National Tragedies and Two Individual Outcomes of Trauma -- Conclusion: Trauma and Culture: How Trauma can Shape the Human Mind.…”
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. by Carlyle, Thomas

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Religious Entrepreneurs? A Conversation with Nile Green. by Burton, Howard

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America's road to Jerusalem : the impact of the Six-Day War on Protestant politics by Olson, Jason

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Simone Weil : an Introduction to Her Thought. by Hellman, John

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Aurangzeb : the life and legacy of India's most controversial king by Truschke, Audrey