Learning Commons | Cardinal Cushing Library
Library Catalog - Books/Videos

Them that believe : the power and meaning of the Christian serpent-handling tradition by Hood, Ralph W., Jr., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…"They shall take up serpents" -- The history of Pentecostalism absent the serpent -- The media and the man : George Went Hensley -- Serpent handling endorsed by the Church of God -- The serpent : sign and symbol -- Trance states : tongues speaking and the anointing -- Extemporaneous sermons in the serpent-handling tradition -- The experience of handling serpents -- The experience of the anointing -- Near-death experience from serpent bites in religious settings -- Music among serpent-handling churches -- Serpent handling and the law : history and empirical studies.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Nature's Mountain Mansion Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite. by Noy, Gary

Table of Contents: “…"The Lark at Heaven's Gate Sings" -- 5. "Sermons in Stone" -- 6. "Enter These Enchanted Woods, You Who Dare" -- 7. …”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Jonathan Edwards's Sinners in the hands of an angry God : a casebook by Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758

Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Being-moved rhetoric as the art of listening by Gross, Daniel M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Passive Voices, Active Listening: A Case Study in Rhetoric and Composition -- Appendix: The Art of Listening in Select English Manuals and Sermons, 1582-1665 -- Notes -- Works Cited with Additional Suggested Readings -- Index…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Rage in the Gate City : the Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Atlanta, 1906 -- A lynching in Lakewood -- Politics of fear -- The Gate City -- The truck farmer's wife -- Harpers Ferry -- Incident at Copenhill -- Pastor Proctor's sermon -- Two meetings and one party -- Low dives and blind tigers -- Celebration -- A visit from William Jennings Bryan -- Orrie Bryan's story -- "Extra! …”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Booker T. Washington in American Memory. by Hamilton, Kenneth M.

Table of Contents: “…"A Debt of Gratitude": Tributes across the Nation; 5. "Sermon Tonight on Booker T. Washington": Months of Commemorations and Eulogies; 6. …”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Who speaks for Margaret Garner? by Reinhardt, Mark

Table of Contents: “…: courts in conflict -- The Ohio legislature responds : debate on the floor -- The battle in the press : editorials on the murder -- The battle in the press : editorials on the trial, return, and requisition -- Silence in the deep South : the case of Charleston, South Carolina -- Speeches, sermons, and "interviews" -- Final developments -- Literary sources, literary echoes -- Appendix: Text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 -- Chronology of key events, 1856-71.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Preacher woman sings the blues : the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists by Douglass-Chin, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…The cruelty of men whose faces were like the moon -- Jarena Lee and Zilpha Elaw: the beginnings of African American women's Christian autobiography -- Sojourner Truth and the embodiment of the blues-bad-preacher-woman text -- Rebecca Cox Jackson and the Black vernacular text -- The politics of conversion: Julia Foote and the sermonic text -- Smith, Elizabeth, Broughton: the daughters' departure -- Zora Neale Hurston: the daughter's return -- The blues bad preacher women: (per)forming of self in the novels of contemporary African American women.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Augustine's Passions : His Transformation from a Roman Citizen to a Catholic Bishop, 354-401. by Ghisalberti, Giosuè

Table of Contents: “…Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Part One Body & Society; Introduction; Ch1 Education; Ch2 Spectacles; Ch3 Sex; Ch4 Music; Interlude Augustineâ#x80;#x99;s Breath; Part Two Spirit & Church; Ch5 Exhortations; Ch6 Sermons; Ch7 Hermeneutics; Ch8 Polemics; Conclusion Augustine and the Two Cities; Bibliography; Index; Back cover.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder : religious art for the urban community by Kaminska, Barbara A.

Table of Contents: “…Negotiating Entrepreneurship in Early Modern Antwerp : Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel -- Conversion on Display : Imperial Politics, Religious Transformation, and Socioeconomic Stability in Antwerp -- "In Their Houses" : Domestic Space and Religious Practices in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp -- "Outside in the Woods" : The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist and Hedge-Preaching in Antwerp -- "If You Are without a Sin" : Religious and Artistic Discourse in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery -- Choosing "the Best Part" : Christian Death and Life in Bruegel's The Death of the Virgin.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Outlaw tales of Kansas : true stories of the Sunflower State's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats by Smarsh, Sarah, Smith, Robert B. (Robert Barr), 1933-2017

Table of Contents: “…Bushwhackers (1863) -- Johnny Hardin (1871) -- Phil Coe (1871) -- The Newton Massacre (1871) -- Kate Bender (1872) -- Ben Thompson (1873) -- Billy Brooks (1874) -- Dirty Dave Rudabaugh (1876) -- Big Nose Kate (1878) -- The Masterson brothers (1881 and 1893) -- Luke Short (1883) -- Henry Brown (1884) -- Dave Mather (1885) -- Emmett Dalton (1892) -- George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb (1893) -- The Bird Man of Kansas (1912) -- Bad sermon (1915) -- Stella Hyman (1919).…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Newman and Littlemore ; a centenary anthology and appeal.

Table of Contents: “…--The parochial and plain sermons, by M. C. D'Arcy.--Newman and Faber at Oxford, by V. …”

Anti social behaviour & ASBOs. / Anti social behavior & ASBOs

Full text (Emmanuel users only)

The Ten Commandments : interpreting the Bible in the medieval world by Smith, Lesley (Lesley Janette)

Full text (Emmanuel users only)

1865 : America makes war and peace in Lincoln's final year

Table of Contents: “…Ballard -- Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Conference / Richard Striner -- Abraham Lincoln's sermon on the mount: the Second Inaugural / Ronald C. …”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

James Dickey : the Selected Poems. by Dickey, James

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; May Day Sermon to the Women of Gilmer County, Georgia, by a Woman Preacher Leaving the Baptist Church; from Into the Stone and Other Poems (1960); from Drowning with Others (1962); from Helmets (1964); from Buckdancer's Choice (1965); from Falling (published in Poems, 1957--1967) (1967); from The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy (1970); from The Strength of Fields (1979); from Puella (1982); from The Eagle's Mile (1990); from Double-tongue: Collaborations and Rewrites; Index of Titles and First Lines.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

The scripting of a national history : Singapore and its pasts by Hong, Lysa

Table of Contents: “…Aptheosis: The Lee Kuan Yew Story as Singapore's History; 3. Sermon: Rajaratnam and Devan Nair as High Priests; 4. …”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Trusting doctors : the decline of moral authority in American medicine by Imber, Jonathan B., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE: A Sociological Perspective; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: Religious Foundations of Trust in Medicine; 1 Protestantism, Piety, and Professionalism; 2 The Influence of Catholic Perspectives; 3 The Scientific Challenge to Faith; 4 Public Health, Public Trust, and the Professionalization of Medicine; PART TWO: Beyond the Golden Age of Trust in Medicine; 5 The Growth of Popular Distrust in Medicine; 6 The Evolution of Bioethics; 7 Anxiety in the Age of Epidemiology; 8 Trust and Mortality; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; APPENDIX 1: Extant Addresses, Sermons, and Eulogies by Clergymen.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Holy hills of the Ozarks : religion and tourism in Branson, Missouri by Ketchell, Aaron K., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "the moral vineyards" -- "Temples of God's own building" : Harold Bell Wright and the roots of Branson tourism -- "Hills of truth and love" : authenticity and the sacred in shepherd of the Hills Country -- "I would much rather see a sermon than hear one" : faith at Silver Dollar City -- Jesus is "the greatest star" : the variety show and contemporary Branson tourism -- "Near heaven" : the dynamics of sacred space in Branson -- Hillbilly heaven : labor, leisure, and the Ozark trickster -- "The aroma of God's spirit" : branding Branson's future.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

1611 : Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England. by Wilcox, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Jonson's Oberon and friends: masque and music in 1611 -- Aemilia Lanyer and the "first fruits" of women's wit -- Coryats Crudities and the "travelling Wonder" of our age -- Time, tyrants and the question of authority: The Winter's Tale and related drama -- "Expresse words": Lancelot Andrewes and the sermons and devotions of 1611 -- The Roaring Girl on and off stage -- "The New World of Words": authorising translation in 1611 -- Donne's "Anatomy" and the commemoration of women: "Her death hath taught us dearely" -- Vengeance and virtue: The Tempest and the triumph of tragicomedy -- Conclusion: "This scribling age."…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull : Lay Learning and Piety in the Christian West Around 1300. by Johnston, Mark D.

Table of Contents: “…Virtue in Speaking; 10. Llull's Sermons; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Empowering words : outsiders and authorship in early America by Weyler, Karen A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Outsider authorship in early America -- Mourning New England : Phillis Wheatley and The broadside elegy -- An "Englishman under English colours" : Briton Hammon, John Marrant, and the fungibility of Christian faith -- "Common, plain, every day talk" from "an uncommon quarter" : Samson Occom and the language of the execution sermon -- Becoming "the American heroine" : Deborah Sampson, collaboration, and performance -- "To proceed with spirit" : Clementina Rind and the Virginia Gazette -- When barbers wrote books : mechanic societies and authorship -- Conclusion : Uncovering other outsider authors.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Miscelánea palafoxiana y poblana by Fernández Gracia, Ricardo

Table of Contents: “….); DE ORATORIA Y FIESTA: EN TORNO AL SERMÓN (...); PALAFOX Y LOS PLIEGOS DE VILLANCICOS PARA (...); CONFLICTOS DE PODER Y JURISDICCIÓN. …”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Striving with grace : views of free will in Anglo-Saxon England by Kleist, Aaron J.

Table of Contents: “…Ælfric of Eynsham and the Sermones catholici -- Conclusion -- Appendix I : Patristic texts in Paul the Deacon and Smaragdus -- Appendix II : Bede's Homiliae -- Editions and parallels to In Lucae -- Appendix III : Primary texts.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern age : communication and miscommunication in the premodern world

Table of Contents: “…Multilingualism and Power in the Latin East Apothecary's Art as a Contact Zone in Late Medieval Southern France ; Xenoglossia and Multilingualism in Middle English Sermons on Pentecost.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

From Eastertide to Ecclesia : John Henry Newman, the Holy Spirit & the church by Graham, Donald, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Blessed John Henry Newman, "The Mystery of the Holy Trinity," Parochial and Plain Sermons vi 360-1; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One Growth in Newman's Idea of the Church; Chapter Two Trinitarian & Incarnational Grammar; Chapter Three Synkatabasis; Chapter Four The Holy Spirit in the Life of Jesus; Chapter Five From Eastertide to Ecclesia; Chapter Six Prolegomena for Discerning The Vivified Church in the Essay on Development (1845); Chapter Seven The Vivified Church in the Essay on Development (1845); Bibliography; Subject Index; Name Index.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Empowering words : outsiders and authorship in early America by Weyler, Karen A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Outsider authorship in early America -- Mourning New England : Phillis Wheatley and The broadside elegy -- An "Englishman under English colours" : Briton Hammon, John Marrant, and the fungibility of Christian faith -- "Common, plain, every day talk" from "an uncommon quarter" : Samson Occom and the language of the execution sermon -- Becoming "the American heroine" : Deborah Sampson, collaboration, and performance -- "To proceed with spirit" : Clementina Rind and the Virginia Gazette -- When barbers wrote books : mechanic societies and authorship -- Conclusion : Uncovering other outsider authors.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Lines of power : limits of language / Lines of power/limits of language by Olsson, Gunnar, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CATALOGUE -- PRESENTATION -- Nowhere -- Dematerialized -- POINTS -- Sermon of Remembrance -- Creativity and Socialization -- LINES -- On Doughnutting -- Magician's Wand -- Set Your Mind at Rest -- Hazerdous Hazard -- Social Space of Silence -- The Eye and the Index Finger -- Hooked -- Hemming the Way -- PLANES -- Lines of Power -- Squaring -- Malevich Torpedoed -- Endings -- In Parentheses -- Beginnings -- Prefigured -- INDEX -- Proper Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Socrates and the fat rabbis by Boyarin, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Preface : The cheese and the sermons: toward a microhistory of ideas -- In praise of indecorous acts of discourse: an essay by way of introduction -- "Confound laughter with seriousness": the Protagoras as monological dialogue -- "Confound seriousness with laughter": on monological and dialogical -- Reading "The Gorgias" -- Jesting words and dreadful lessons: the two voices of the Babylonian Talmud -- "Read Lucian!"…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Religion and its reformation in America, beginnings to 1730 : an anthology of primary sources

Table of Contents: “…Work of the Ministry (1709) / George Fox -- from: A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the Synod at Philadelphia (1722) / Jonathan Dickinson -- from: A Clear Demonstration (1731) / Theodore Frelinghuysen. …”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Texas Baptist History Sourcebook : a Companion to McBeth's Texas Baptists. by Early, Joseph E.

Table of Contents: “…Morrell; Morrell's Call to Go to Texas; Morrell's First Sermon in Texas and Decision to Remain, 1835; The First Sermon Preached in Houston; Indian Fighting; The First Missionary Baptist Church in Texas, 1836; 2.2 Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor; Early Politics with Henry Clay; Birth of the Tiger Point Church, 1840.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

God''s Ways with the World : Thinking and Practising Christian Faith. by Hardy, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Remembrance Sunday; 31. Sermon at a Marriage; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Courting the Moderates : Ideology, Propaganda, and the Emergence of Party, 1660-1678. by Montano, John Patrick

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Courting the Moderates""; ""I Ideology and Propaganda""; ""1 Historiography""; ""2 The Changing Rhetoric of Moderation""; ""3 The Restoration in Verse""; ""4 Royal Theater and the Street Theater""; ""5 Pulpits and Sermons""; ""6 Propaganda in Prose""; ""7 Controlling the Printed Word""; ""II Parliament and Party""; ""8 The Speeches from the Throne""; ""9 A Court Party?""…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Republic of love : selected poems in English and Arabic by Qabbānī, Nizār

Table of Contents: “…-- My angry cat -- Words -- The play -- Only with me -- The evil poem -- A very realistic poem -- The last declaration of King Schariar -- Lolita -- You want -- To a hireling -- A letter to an anonymous man -- Pregnant -- Vessels of pus -- The arsonist of Rome -- Clown -- A voice from the harem -- A bedside sermon behind the closed -- Doors -- The runners.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

The ascetic spirituality of Juan de Ávila (1499-1569) by Roldán-Figueroa, Rady

Table of Contents: “…The spiritual exercises of Juan de Ávila : his rule for the clergy -- The spiritual exercises of Juan de Ávila : his rule for the laity -- Juan de Ávila and the Audi, filia of 1556 as a manual for holy women -- Juan de Ávila and frequent communion : historical background -- Juan de Ávila and frequent communion : his sermons on the Eucharist -- Juan de Ávila and his ascetic doctrine of union with the Holy Spirit -- Juan de Ávila and the spiritual discipline of public service -- Concluding remarks : Juan de Ávila and the contours of converso spirituality.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

It is so blissful by Korale, Siri

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- It Is So Blissful -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- Introduction -- 1 -- The Basis of Original Sermons -- 2 -- Why Should One Be Empowered -- 3 -- The Nature of Common Mental Incompetence -- What I have said so far is -- 4 -- The Long- Practised Distortion -- 5 -- Defects in Human Soul with Some Labels -- 6 -- Expanding the Circle of Compassion -- 7 -- How Compatible Is This with Buddhism or Any Other Humane Religion -- 8 -- How Do We Get There? …”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

The image of Edessa by Guscin, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The Narratio de imagine Edessena; 2. The Sermon of Gregory Referendarius; 3. The Synaxarion; 4. …”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Victory at home : manpower and race in the American South during World War II by Chamberlain, Charles D., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Tents, trailers, and shack towns: mobilizing the southern home front, 1939-1942 -- "Empty sermons": race and economic mobility on the southern home front, 1940-1942 -- "On the train and gone": worker mobility in the Cotton Belt, 1941-1945 -- The segregation frontier: African American migrant war workers in the Pacific West, 1941-1945 -- "We're not here to start a social revolution": southern black workers define equality, 1943-1945 -- "The South needs the Negro": demobilization and economic equality in the South, 1945-1948 -- "A virtual revolution in Negro leadership."…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)

The life of Muhammad.

Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Gendering Chinese religion : subject, identity, and body

Table of Contents: “…Tang women in the transformation of Buddhist filiality / Ping Yao -- Writing oneself into the tradition: the autobiographical sermon of Chan Master Jizong Xingche (b. 1606) / Beata Grant -- Making religion, making the new woman: reading Su Xuelin's autobiographical novel Jixin (Thorny Heart) / Zhange Ni -- The identity of Tan Daoist priestesses / Jinhua Jia -- Revisiting White-haired Girl: women, gender and religion in Communist revolutionary propaganda / Xiaofei Kang -- Negotiating between two patriarchies: Chinese Christian women in postcolonial Hong Kong / Wai Ching Angela Wong -- Birthing the self: metaphor and tranformation in Medieval Daoism / Gil Raz -- Female alchemy: transformation of a gendered body / Elena Valussi -- A religious menopausal ritual: changing body, identity, and values / Neky Tak-ching Cheung.…”
Full text (Emmanuel users only)