Unknown Huichol : Shamans and Immortals, Allies against Chaos. by Fikes, Jay Courtney

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Confessions of a Hybrid Anthropologist; Chapter 2: Shamanic Initiation and Ancestor Veneration; Chapter 3: Entering the Afterlife; Chapter 4: Interdependence and Continuity in Huichol Cosmology; Chapter 5: Seeking Sacred Indexes to Celebrate Life's Logos; Postscript; Appendix A: A Huichol Woman's Burial; Appendix B: Funeral Ritual Song Excerpts; Appendix C: Deer-Hunting and Reincarnating Rituals; Appendix D: Death and Mourning among the Huichol; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.…”
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Making Yugoslavs : identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia by Nielsen, Christian Axboe, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Part IV: The Assassination of Aleksandar and the Strange Afterlife of His Dictatorship. 6. The Return of "Democracy" -- 7. …”
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Charles Dickens's American Audience. by McParland, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The Public Readings and the American Reconstruction of Charles Dickens; Chapter 11. The Afterlife of Charles Dickens; Bibliography.…”
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(Extra)ordinary? : the concept of authenticity in celebrity and fan studies

Table of Contents: “…: Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist Martyr; 2 Mediating Bieber in Canada : Authenticating Nation in Fame; 3 Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize : The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning Platform; Part 2: (Re)Envisioning Stardom; 4 Oscar Wilde's Long Afterlife : Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modern Culture; 5 Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney's Roller Derby Scene; 6 Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of "High" and "Low" Cultures.…”
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Christianity without God : moving beyond the dogmas and retrieving the epic moral narrative by Maguire, Daniel C.

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Death in the Middle Ages and early modern time : the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death

Table of Contents: “…Scarborough -- Late Medieval Carved Cadaver Memorials in England and Wales / Christina Welch -- Images of Mortality in Early English Drama / Thomas Willard -- New Perspectives of the Early Modern Afterlife : the Last Pilgrimage in the Poetry of John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh / Cyril L. …”
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The Native Americans.

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Wicca : History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft. by Doyle White, Ethan

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: The Craft of the Pagan Witches; Part One Wiccan History; 2 Origins and Inspiration; 3 Gerald Gardner; 4 Gardner's Early Rivals; 5 Wicca in the USA; 6 Feminism, Gay Lib, and the Eco-Warriors; 7 The Charmed Generation; Part Two Belief and Praxes; 8 Wicca as Witchcraft; 9 Wiccan Theology; 10 The Coven and the Solitary; 11 Magic and Morality; 12 Wiccan Ritual; 13 The Wheel of the Year; 14 Birth, Death, and Afterlife; Part Three Wiccan Life; 15 Converting to the Craft; 16 The Wiccan Community.…”
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Now it's dark by Gizzi, Peter

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José Martí : a revolutionary life by López, Alfred J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…New York (1): a false start ; New York (2): no country, no master ; New York (3): the great work begins ; New York (4): the final push ; Farewells and rowboats ; "My life for my country" -- Epilogue: a hero's afterlife.…”
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Approaching the end of life : a practical and spiritual guide by Schaper, Donna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 1 The Best Funeral Ever; 2 What to Do When You Get Sick and Death First Knocks on Your Door; 3 The Importance of the Afterlife; 4 Early Dotage, Mid Dotage, and Late Dotage; 5 Spiritual Preparation for Death; 6 Spiritual and Practical Combined; 7 Really Bad Funerals Do Happen; 8 Finding a Spiritual Home before Death; 9 My Lord, What a Morning; Funeral and Memorial Service Planning Checklist; Glossary of Funeral and Memorial Service Terms; Words and Music for Funerals and Memorial Services; (An Opinionated) Template for a Funeral or Memorial Service…”
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José Martí : a revolutionary life by López, Alfred J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…New York (1): a false start ; New York (2): no country, no master ; New York (3): the great work begins ; New York (4): the final push ; Farewells and rowboats ; "My life for my country" -- Epilogue: a hero's afterlife.…”
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Slant light by Westcott, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Bats; Inklings; Spring Wood; Form; Downy Mildew; Milia; For the Love of Young Leaf; Flowers; Lily; The Mariposa Trees; Fallen Monarch; The Faithful Couple; Wawona Tunnel Tree ; The Vegetable Lamb; Green Giant; The Great Pacific Garbage Patch; Sentinel; Lambskin; Little Red; Pox Charm; Charm for Delayed Birth; Charm for a Lost Child; Hare; Mass; Messenger; May; Still Life; Sculpting a Mole; The Cannots; The Green Flash; And Then He Started Singing Again; Charm Against a Wen; Black and Blue; Cannibal; Eyas; Oxygen; Owls; We Are Listening; Afterlife; Cloud.…”
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Gilligan's Island by Metz, Walter, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…-- To be Gilligan, or not to be -- Prospero's children -- A poke in CBS's eye: the aesthetics of Gilligan's Island -- Gilligan goes to carnival -- Gilligan and the short story -- Gilligan's Island and film history -- Gilligan's Island and performativity -- Gilligan, the natural man -- The afterlife of Gilligan's Island -- Conclusion: television in the age of the DVD.…”
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William Shakespeare : the tempest by Moseley, C. W. R. D. (Charles W. R. D.)

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare, the king's men and the court -- The tempest: genre, plot and structure -- Synopsis -- Genres and modes -- Theatrical language and illusion -- Setting -- Time and the design of The tempest -- Structure, staging and symbol -- The magus, the philosopher prince, and Prospero's estate -- Educating Miranda: The tempest and education -- Caliban -- After the play: inconclusions and anxieties -- Afterlife, and further reading -- Appendix: some dates -- Hyperlinks -- Intertextuality -- John Dee -- Divine right -- Virtues of prince -- King's two bodies -- Tyrant/Tyranny -- Trojan Aeneas/ Troy -- Astraea and apocalypse -- Revenge and the revenge play -- Three unities -- Fortune -- Emblems -- Truth daughter of Time -- Humanism -- Machiavelli / The Machiavel -- Of the CANNIBALLES.…”
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The religious life of Nabataea by Alpass, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Religion -- Society -- History -- Discovering Nabataea -- Sources -- Inscriptions -- Literature -- Sculpture -- Archaeological remains -- Approaches -- Gods -- Worshippers -- Public monuments -- Temple of the Winged Lions -- Qasr el-Bint -- 'Great Temple' -- The Deir -- Collective monuments -- Processional ways -- 'High-places' -- Rock-cut sanctuaries -- Private monuments -- Triclinia -- Tombs -- Idol Blocks -- Figurines -- Appendix: Catalogue of inscriptions -- Languages -- Tayma -- Dadan -- Hegra -- Tomb inscriptions -- The religious monuments -- Deities -- Oboda -- Other sites -- Conclusions -- Borders -- Historical overview -- Sia -- Bosra -- Salkhad -- Afterlife -- Khirbet Tannur -- Khirbet Dharih -- Dhat Ras -- Gods -- Worshippers -- The Aniconic tradition -- Ritual feasting -- Dushara -- Final remarks.…”
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Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911 by Hochman, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…The afterlife of a book -- Uncle Tom's Cabin in the national era: recasting sentimental images -- Imagining black literacy: early abolitionist texts and Stowe's rhetoric of containment -- Legitimizing fiction: protocols of reading in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Beyond piety and social conscience: Uncle Tom's Cabin as an antebellum children's book -- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's Cabin as history in the wake of The Civil War -- Imagining the past as the future: illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin for the 1890s -- Sparing the white child: the lessons of Uncle Tom's Cabin for children in an age of segregation -- Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin: black readers between Plessy vs. …”
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Shakespearean gothic

Table of Contents: “…Gothic Cordelias: the afterlife of King Lear and the construction of femininity -- 8. …”
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Colonialism in Greenland : tradition, governance and legacy by Rud, Søren

Table of Contents: “…NeurastheniaArctic Neurasthenia; Neurasthenia Across Metropole and Colony: Class, Gender, and the Primitive; Race, Mind, and the Complexities of Modern Life; Notes; 6 Shame and Crime: The Effects and Afterlife of Tradition; Law and Order in Greenland: A Culture-based Penal System?…”
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Olam ha-zeh v'olam ha-ba : this world and the world to come in Jewish belief and practice

Table of Contents: “…"The end of the world and the world to come" : what apocalyptic literature says about the time after the end-time / Dereck Daschke -- Warriors, wives, and wisdom : this world and the world to come in the (so-called) apocrypha / Nicolae Roddy -- The afterlife in the Septuagint / Leonard Greenspoon -- Rabbi Akiva, other martyrs, and Socrates : on life, death, and life after life / Naftali Rothenberg -- Heaven on earth : the world to come and its (dis)locations / Christine Hayes -- Olam Ha-ba in rabbinic literature : a functional reading / Dov Weiss -- Dining in(to) the world to come / Jordan D. …”
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Translating Resurrection : the debate between William Tyndale and George Joye in its historical and theological context by Juhász, Gergely, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Methodological Considerations and the Structure of the BookChapter Two Views on Post-Mortem Existence Prior to the Reformation; Views on Post-Mortem Existence in the Bible; Belief in the Afterlife in the Old Testament; Belief in the Afterlife in the New Testament; Post-Mortem Existence in the Church Fathers; Post-Mortem Existence in the Theology of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Chapter Three Views on Post-Mortem Existence in the Early Reformation Period; Introduction; Wessel Gansfort; Erasmus; Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples; Martin Luther; Andreas Karlstadt and Gerhard Westerburg.…”
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Lodela

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Heaven and hell.

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Digging for the truth. Secrets of the mummies

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Aby Warburg : metamorphosis and memory

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Atheism, Morality, and the Kingdom of God : a Philosophical and Literary Investigation. by Clark, David K.

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The Vital Dead Making Meaning, Identity, and Community Through Cemeteries. by Bell, Alison

Table of Contents: “…"Give This Man His Wings": Imagining Lives and the Afterlife -- Chapter 3. "The Wrong Kind of Creature for This World": Asylum Cemeteries -- Chapter 4. …”
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Varro Varius : the polymath of the Roman world

Table of Contents: “…Varro the Roman philosopher -- III Varro's afterlife -- 7. Varro in Gellius and late antiquity…”
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Queenship and sanctity : the lives of Mathilda and the epitaph of Adelheid

Table of Contents: “…The Lives of Mathilda and Adelheid -- Origins and Authorship -- Monasticism in the Lives and the EA The Tradition of Sacred Biography -- Tradition Remade : Marriage, Queenship, and Royal Sanctity -- Holy Mother : The Lives and the Politics of Sanctity -- Holy Ruler : The EA and the Sanctity of Politics -- Afterlife -- III. The Translations -- The "Older Life" of Queen Mathilda -- The "Later Life" of Queen Mathilda -- Odilo of Cluny, The Epitaph of the August Lord Adelheid -- Appendix 1. …”
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We remember, we love, we grieve mortuary and memorial practice in contemporary Russia by Warner, Elizabeth, 1940-, Adonʹeva, S. B.

Table of Contents: “…Beliefs about the Soul, the Living Dead, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Rural North Russia -- 2. …”
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Circulating queerness : before the gay and lesbian novel by Hurley, Natasha

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; PROLOGUE: On the Queer Worlds of Books; INTRODUCTION: Circuits, Lies, and the Queer Novel in America; 1 Acquired Queerness: The Sexual Life and Afterlife of Typee; 2 The Stoddard Archive and Its Dissed Contents; 3 Type Complication and Literary Old Maids; 4 Reading The Bostonians's History of Sexuality from the Outside In; 5 Worlds Inside: Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century Types; CODA: Short Circuits and Untrodden Paths; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.…”
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The death of things : ephemera and the American novel by Wasserman, Sarah

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Soundies and the changing image of Black Americans on screen : one dime at a time by Delson, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Backing into integration ; 11. Unplugged, with an afterlife -- Part III: Following up. Appendix 1. Directory of black-cast soundies ; Appendix 2. …”
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Charlotte Brontë : legacies and afterlives

Table of Contents: “…'; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Part II Textual legacies: influences and adaptations; 6 'Poetry, as I comprehend the word': Charlotte Brontë's lyric afterlife ; Lyrics and old ballads in The Professor and Jane Eyre.…”
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The sungod's journey through the netherworld : reading the ancient Egyptian Amduat by Schweizer, Andreas, 1946-

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Greek Religion Archaic and Classical. by Burkert, Walter

Table of Contents: “…3.5 Daimon -- 4 The Special Character of Greek Anthropomorphism -- IV The Dead, Heroes, and Chthonic Gods -- 1 Burial and the Cult of the Dead -- 2 Afterlife Mythology -- 3 Olympian and Chthonic -- 4 The Heroes -- 5 Figures who cross the Chthonic-Olympian Boundary -- 5.1 Heracles -- 5.2 The Dioskouroi -- 5.3 Asklepios -- V Polis and Polytheism -- 1 Thought Patterns in Greek Polytheism -- General Considerations -- The Family of the Gods -- Pairs of Gods -- Old and Young -- Dionysos -- 2 The Rhythm of the Festivals -- 2.1 Festival Calendars -- 2.2 Year Ending and New Year -- 2.3 Karneia…”
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Radical, religious, and violent : the new economics of terrorism by Berman, Eli

Table of Contents: “…Hezbollah -- The Taliban -- Hamas -- The lethality of religious radicals -- What motivates terrorists? The afterlife and other myths -- Terrorist organizations, why so few? …”
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Last rites : death ceremonies

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Inside Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology

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The immortal emperor

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