Engaging evil : a moral anthropology

Table of Contents: “…Mother Evil in Hell Valley: A Creole Transvalorisation of Evil in Trinidad; Roland Littlewood Chapter 5. Satan on the Old Kent Road: Articulations of Evil in a Pentecostal Diaspora; Simon Coleman Chapter 6. …”
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The Beecher sisters by White, Barbara A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Calvinist childhoods, 1800-18370 -- Marriage and motherhood, 1837-1852 -- In the wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Water cure and Civil War, 1860-1865 -- The gilded age, 1865-1868 -- Suffrage arguments, 1868-1869 -- "Foes in your own household," 1870-1871 -- Free love and "Mrs. Satan," 1871-1872 -- The Beecher-Tilton scandal, 1872-1875 -- Spiritualism, 1875-1878 -- Losses, 1878-1887 -- The board of lady managers, 1888-1893.…”
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The Beecher sisters by White, Barbara A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Calvinist childhoods, 1800-18370 -- Marriage and motherhood, 1837-1852 -- In the wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Water cure and Civil War, 1860-1865 -- The gilded age, 1865-1868 -- Suffrage arguments, 1868-1869 -- "Foes in your own household," 1870-1871 -- Free love and "Mrs. Satan," 1871-1872 -- The Beecher-Tilton scandal, 1872-1875 -- Spiritualism, 1875-1878 -- Losses, 1878-1887 -- The board of lady managers, 1888-1893.…”
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Three days of darkness

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Opinions Throughout History by Issitt, Micah

Table of Contents: “…Area 51 and the Alien Conspiracies (1955-Present) -- The Umbrella Man -- Kennedy Assassination Conspiracies (1963-Present) -- Death of a Dream -- Conspiracies of the Civil Rights Movement (1968-Present) -- Bad Moon Rising -- The Moon Landing Hoax (1969-Present) -- The October Surprise -- The Reagan Era and the Iran Conspiracy (1980-Present) -- Satanic Influence -- Spiritualism, Satanism, and the 1980s Satanist Scare (1980-Present) -- The Gay Plague -- Conspiracy Theories about HIV/AIDS (1981-Present) -- An Existential Threat -- The Conspiracy to Sow Doubt about Climate Change (1996-Present)…”
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Contemporary Esotericism.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Tradition; 2 Constructing Esotericisms: Sociological, Historical and Critical Approaches to the Invention of Tradition; 3 Inventing Africa: Esotericism and the Creation of an Afrocentric Tradition in America; 4 Secret Lineages and de Facto Satanists: Anton LaVey's Use of Esoteric Tradition; 5 Perennialism and Iconoclasm: Chaos Magick and the Legitimacy of Innovation; Part II: Popular Culture and New Media; 6 Occulture is Ordinary; 7 From Book to Bit: Enacting Satanism Online.…”
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Magic and masculinity : ritual magic and gender in the early modern era by Timbers, Frances

Table of Contents: “…John Pordage and Passivity; 6. Swords, Satan and Sex; 7. Fairies and Female Magicians; 8. …”
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Milton's ontology, cosmogony and physics by Curry, Walter Clyde, 1887-1967

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Confessions of the Author; CHAPTER ONE Milton's Dual Concept of God as Related to Creation; CHAPTER TWO Milton's Chaos and Old Night; CHAPTER THREE The Consistence and Qualities of Chaos; CHAPTER FOUR The Genesis of Milton's World; CHAPTER FIVE The Lordship of Milton's Sun; CHAPTER SIX Some Travels of Satan and the Road to Hell; CHAPTER SEVEN Milton's Scale of Nature; Epilogue; APPENDIX Milton's Light Exhaling from Darkness: A Study in Symbols; NOTES.…”
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Desire after dark : contemporary queer cultures and occultly marvelous media by Owens, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…Blood, sulfur, sex, magick -- Aquarian alternatives: midcentury media and the quest for occultly queer histories -- Le sexe qui parle du surnaturel: supernatural sexualities and satanic subcultures in the 1970s -- The blood is the life/death: queer contagion and viral vampirism in the age(s) of HIV/AIDs -- Now is the time, now is the hour, ours is the magick, ours is the power: casting as coming out in millennial media -- Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me: the ambivalent queer of occult cable tv.…”
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Taboo issues in social science : questioning conventional wisdom by Walsh, Anthony, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- Capitalism and socialism : the Devil's dung versus Satan's spore -- Socioeoconomic success : talent plus effort or white privilege? …”
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Mysteries of Montreal : Memoirs of a Midwife by Charlotte Fuhrer. by Ward, W. Peter

Table of Contents: “…Among the Fenians""; ""VI. A Disciple of Satan""; ""VII. The Frail Shop Girl""; ""VIII. The Two Orphans""; ""IX. …”
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Martin Luther : confessor of the faith by Kolb, Robert, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The Emergence of the Reformer: Luther's Decisive Turn to Reform; 6. Fast Bound in Satan's Chains I Lay: Luther's View of the Fallen Human Creature; 7. …”
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Blue daughter of the Red Sea : a memoir by Birabiro, Meti

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments and Thanks -- Translations -- Book 1 Exodus of Bodies -- 1 Light -- 2 Appetizer -- 3 Reformatory Sessions -- 4 God and Satan -- Book 2 Exodus of Souls -- 5 Darkness -- 6 Entrée -- Book 3 Exodus of Innocence -- 7 Blossom -- 8 Initiation Rites -- 9 Colorfield -- 10 Novillada -- 11 Suicide Machine -- 12 The Trouble with the Feet -- Book 4 The Book of Disenchantments -- 13 Divine Detour -- 14 Pandora's Box -- 15 The Boxer -- 16 The Dancer.…”
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A people's history of environmentalism in the United States by Montrie, Chad

Table of Contents: “…Puritan to Yankee Redux: Farming, Fishing, and Our Very Own Dark, Satanic Mills -- Why "Game Wardens" Carry Guns and Interpretive Rangers Dress like Soldiers: Class Conflict in Forests and Parks -- Missionaries Find the Urban Jungle: Sanitation and Worker Health and Safety -- Green Relief and Recovery: By Which Working People and Nature Get a New Deal -- A Popular Crusade: Organized Labor Takes the Lead against Pollution -- To Stir Up Dissent and Create Turmoil: Inventing Environmental Justice.…”
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Jewish themes in the New Testament : Am Yisrael Chai! by Morris, Paul, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…s Desire and Prayer to God -- Sin and Satan Defeated -- I am of Peter: the Apostleship to the Circumcision -- Provoking to Jealousy -- One New Man from the Two -- The Israel of God -- Pay Attention! …”
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The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place by MacDonald, Scott, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Expulsion from the Garden; Chapter 10. Satan's National Park; Chapter 11. Benedictions/New Frontiers; Appendix; Notes; Index.…”
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The spice of popery : converging Christianities on an early American frontier by Chmielewski, Laura M.

Table of Contents: “…Brief chronology : the province of Maine, 1688/1727 -- Introduction -- "The land that was desolate ... shall flourish like the lily" : Christian diversity in early Maine -- "Satan's prey" or "l'esclavage de l'heresie calviniste" : the imperial battles for Maine's frontier souls -- "Pits of hell" and "menage des anges" : the Protestant dilemma of sacramental marriage -- The ways of Christian industry : missions and ministries on the Maine frontier -- Protestant ornaments and popish relics : Maine's material culture of lived religion -- "The Lord ... will greatly reward me" : the religious dimensions of worldly goods -- Afterword.…”
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The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place by MacDonald, Scott, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Expulsion from the Garden; Chapter 10. Satan's National Park; Chapter 11. Benedictions/New Frontiers; Appendix; Notes; Index.…”
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Dangerous games : what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds by Laycock, Joseph, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Pathways into Madness: 1979-1982; 4. Satanic Panic: 1982-1991; 5. A World of Darkness: 1991-2001; PART II. …”
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Martyrdom and Identity : the Self on Trial. by Jensen, MIchael

Table of Contents: “…Martyrdom and identity in Charles Taylor and in Salman Rushdie's: The Satanic Verses; 3 The first temptation: the temptation to security and the risk of martyrdom; 4 The second temptation: the temptation to collaborate and the mission of the martyrs; 5 The third temptation: the temptation to idealism and martyrdom as passive action; 6 The fourth temptation: the temptation of honour and reward, and martyrdom as renunciation; 7 'Who killed the Archbishop?' …”
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A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean : a Grump in Paradise Discovers that Anyplace it's Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to. by Buslik, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; The Time I Accidentally Urinated on Idi Amin; My Military-Industrial Complex; NASDAQ 5,000; El Max; The Power of MasterCard; The Night Ramon Popular Stopped Being a Commie; Papa's Ghost; A Bug in My Eye; Weed Killer; My Secret Cigars; My Date with Princess Di; Flow; The Art of Indifference in an Uncivil Age; Why Chicken Rectums Are More Relevant than You Think; Black Power; Sometimes It's the Other Way Around; Where Satan Wo; Acknowledgments; About the Author.…”
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The spice of popery : converging Christianities on an early American frontier by Chmielewski, Laura M.

Table of Contents: “…Brief chronology : the province of Maine, 1688/1727 -- Introduction -- "The land that was desolate ... shall flourish like the lily" : Christian diversity in early Maine -- "Satan's prey" or "l'esclavage de l'heresie calviniste" : the imperial battles for Maine's frontier souls -- "Pits of hell" and "menage des anges" : the Protestant dilemma of sacramental marriage -- The ways of Christian industry : missions and ministries on the Maine frontier -- Protestant ornaments and popish relics : Maine's material culture of lived religion -- "The Lord ... will greatly reward me" : the religious dimensions of worldly goods -- Afterword.…”
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The postsecular imagination : postcolonialism, religion, and literature by Ratti, Manav

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: situating postsecularism -- Postsecularism and aesthetics: Michael Ondaatje's The English patient -- Minority's Christianity: Allan Sealy's The Everest Hotel -- Postsecularism and violence: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- If truth were a Sikh woman: Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the body remembers -- Postsecularism and prophecy: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Art after the fatwa: Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories, The Moor's last sigh, Shalimar the clown, and The enchantress of Florence -- The known and the unknowable: Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's "Pterodactyl, puran sahay, and pirtha" -- Coda.…”
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Victorian Theatricals. by Hudston, Sara

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Introduction; THEATRICAL BEHAVIOUR; 1 Mansfield Park; 2 Vanity Fair; 3 Acting Proverbs; 4 The Sorrows of Satan; FUN AND FREAKS; 5 Nicholas Nickleby; 6 Far from the Madding Crowd; 7 An Evening at a Whitechapel Gaff; 8 The Enchanted Isle; 9 Jason in Colchis; 10 The Colleen Bawn; SOCIETY; 11 The Business of Matrimony; 12 The Factory Lad; 13 Society; 14 The Mikado; 15 The Second Mrs Tanqueray; Notes on the Texts; Glossary of Victorian Stage Terms; Sources; Chronology.…”
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Race riots : comedy and ethnicity in modern British fiction by Ross, Michael L., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Caliban and his progeny -- Inferiority complexions: the London charivari -- White mischief: Evelyn Waugh's African charivari -- Joyce Cary's tragic African clown -- Forster's funny bridge party: nation and humour in A passage to India -- Roman Catholic carnival: Muriel Spark's passage to Jerusalem -- The far and the near: Pym and Taylor -- Samuel Selvon and the carnival of reverse colonization -- Rerouting the comic: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- "A funny kind of Englishman": Hanif Kureishi's carnival of ethnicities -- "Some subtleties of the isle": Matthew Kneale's anti-Tempest -- The empire laughs last.…”
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Gothic-postmodernism : voicing the terrors of postmodernity by Beville, Maria

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 4: Postmodernism; Chapter 5: The Gothic and Postmodernism -- At the Interface; Chapter 6: Gothic Literary Transformations: The Fin de Siecle and Modernism; Part II: Analysing Gothic-postmodernism; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 7: The Gothic-postmodernist Novel: Three Models; Chapter 8: Gothic Metafiction: The Satanic Verses; Chapter 9: Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.…”
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An Unlikely Prince : the Life and Times of Machiavelli. by Capponi, Niccolo

Table of Contents: “…Title Page -- NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- 1 -- GRASPING, ENVIOUS, AND PROUD -- 2 -- WORSE THAN A CRIME -- 3 -- WARFARE AND STATECRAFT -- 4 -- TWO FUNERALS AND A WEDDING -- 5 -- BE MY VALENTINE -- 6 -- HOLLOW WORDS -- 7 -- A MOST BEAUTIFUL THING -- 8 -- THE ARMED PROPHET -- 9 -- COUNCIL AND CONCILIATION -- 10 -- THE NIGHT PIER SODERINI DIED -- 11 -- SATAN'S PROGENY -- 12 -- THE BYSTANDER'S GRIN -- 13 -- A HISTORY OF LIES -- 14 -- FORTUNE'S FICKLENESS -- 15 -- LOST OPPORTUNITIES -- EPILOGUE -- SOURCE NOTES -- INDEX -- Copyright Page.…”
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Angels, Demons and The New World. by Cervantes, Fernando

Table of Contents: “…An interpretation of the Nahua supernatural world; Looking for Angels; Finding Saints; 6 Vipers under the altar cloths: satanic and angelic forms in seventeenth-century New Granada; Part III The world of the Baroque; 7 Angels and demons in the conquest of Peru*; I. …”
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The international novel by Patterson, Annabel M.

Table of Contents: “…Naipaul, A bend in the river -- Nuruddin Farah, Maps -- Rhea Galanaki, The life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: the trouble with Crete -- Salman Rushdie, The satanic verses -- Orhan Pamuk, Snow -- Roberto Bolaño, 2666: apocalypse in a border town -- Khaled Hosseini, A thousand splendid suns: and some conclusions.…”
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Desperate magic : the moral economy of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Russia by Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann)

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Desperate magic : the moral economy of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Russia by Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann)

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The anti-American century

Table of Contents: “…Moon -- How "big brother" became the "great satan" : changing perceptions of the United States among the Muslim communities of Southeast Asia / Farish Ahmad Noor -- A plea for distinctions : disentangling anti-Americanism from anti-semitism / Brian Klug.…”
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The anti-American century

Table of Contents: “…Moon -- How "big brother" became the "great satan" : changing perceptions of the United States among the Muslim communities of Southeast Asia / Farish Ahmad Noor -- A plea for distinctions : disentangling anti-Americanism from anti-semitism / Brian Klug.…”
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Their maker's image : new essays on John Milton

Table of Contents: “…Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Their Maker's Image; "Tears such as Angels weep": Passion and Allusion in Paradise Lost; Satan's Envy and Poetic Emulation; Waking Leucothea: An Unexplored Homeric Allusion in Paradise Lost; Self-sacrifice and Heroic Martyrdom in the Aeneid and Paradise Lost; God as Geometer and Architect in Paradise Lost; Lycidas beyond Words: Nonverbal Signs and Material Pages in the 1645 Poems; How Milton's Education at Christ's College, Cambridge, Influenced Logical Styles in Paradise Lost.…”
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Republican Gomorrah : inside the movement that shattered the party by Blumenthal, Max, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Escape from freedom -- God's government -- Creating a monster -- What God wants him to do -- Marching through the institutions -- The personal crisis industry -- The king of pain -- Satan in a Porsche -- The killer and the saint -- A dangerous woman -- Cheap grace -- The addict and the enabler -- Casino Jack, the Face Painter, and the Sausage King -- Talk to her -- The bad cop -- Boldly affirming Uncle Tom -- Feeding baby monsters -- Human tools -- The wide stance -- Pastor Ted's excellent adventure -- The nightmare of Christianity -- The party of Dobson -- The party of death -- The hate boat -- A matter of tone -- The family that prays together -- The anointing.…”
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The one by whom scandal comes by Girard, René, 1923-2015

Table of Contents: “…The other side of myth; Ch. 4. I see satan fall like lightning -- Ch. 5. Scandal and conversion -- Ch. 6. …”
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Salman Rushdie. by Teverson, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…9780719070501; 9780719070501; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; PART I Contexts and intertexts; 1 Introduction; 2 Political and intellectual contexts; 3 Writing in English; 4 Intertextuality, influence and the postmodern; 5 Biographical contexts; PART II Novels and criticism; 6 From science fiction to history: Grimus and Midnight's Children; 7 Tragedy in Shame; 8 Satire in The Satanic Verses; 9 Pessoptimistic fictions:Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh.…”
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The one by whom scandal comes by Girard, René, 1923-2015

Table of Contents: “…The other side of myth; Ch. 4. I see satan fall like lightning -- Ch. 5. Scandal and conversion -- Ch. 6. …”
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Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 by Major, Andrea

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 'To call a slave a slave' : recovering Indian slavery -- 'A shameful and ruinous trade' : European slave-trafficking and the East India Company -- Bengalis, Caffrees and Malays : European slave-holding and early colonial society -- 'This household servitude' : domestic slavery and immoral commerce -- 'Open and professed stealers of children' : slave-trafficking and the boundaries of the colonial state -- 'Slaves of the soil' : caste and agricultural slavery in south India -- 'Satan's wretched slaves' : Indian society and the evangelical imagination -- 'The produce of the east by free men' : Indian sugar and Indian slavery in British abolitionist debates, 1793-1833 -- Conclusion : 'do justice to India' : abolitionists and Indian slavery, 1839-1843.…”
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Handbook of conspiracy theory and contemporary religion

Table of Contents: “…Uscinski, Darin DeWitt and Matthew D. Atkinson -- The Satanism scare in apartheid South Africa / Nicky Falkof -- "Trust me, you can't trust them": stigmatised knowledge in cults and conspiracies / Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist and Suzanne Newcombe -- Popular music, conspiracy culture, and the sacred / Christopher Partridge -- Close companions: esotericism and conspiracy theories / Egil Asprem and Asbjorn Dyrendal -- The counter-elite: strategies of authority in millennial conspiracism / David G. …”
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