Popular religion in Southeast Asia / by Winzeler, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…The development of religion in Southeast Asia -- Three versions of popular Hinduism -- Buddhism and popular religion -- Popular Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia -- Conversion and popular Christianity -- The magic of the market -- Religious movements as popular religion -- Popular religion in Southeast Asia.…”
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Letters from Heaven : Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine. by Himka, John-Paul

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead; Folk Orthodoxy: Popular Religion in Contemporary Ukraine; The Miracle as Sign and Proof: 'Miraculous Semiotics' in the Medieval and Early Modern Ukrainian Mentality; Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Russian Orthodoxy: Sin and Virtue in Cultural Context; The Christian Sources of the Cult of St Paraskeva; Popular Religion in the Time of Peter the Great; Letters from Heaven: An Encounter between the 'National Movement' and 'Popular Culture'…”
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Letters from Heaven : Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine. by Himka, John-Paul

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Death Ritual among Russian and Ukrainian Peasants: Linkages between the Living and the Dead; Folk Orthodoxy: Popular Religion in Contemporary Ukraine; The Miracle as Sign and Proof: 'Miraculous Semiotics' in the Medieval and Early Modern Ukrainian Mentality; Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Russian Orthodoxy: Sin and Virtue in Cultural Context; The Christian Sources of the Cult of St Paraskeva; Popular Religion in the Time of Peter the Great; Letters from Heaven: An Encounter between the 'National Movement' and 'Popular Culture'…”
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The Image and the Figure : Our Lady of Czêstochowa in Polish Culture and Popular Religion. by Nied1/4wied1/4, Anna

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A Comparative Sociology of World Religions : Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion. by Sharot, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; I Concepts and Theories; 1 World Religions, Elites, and Popular Religion; 2 Religious Action: A Weberian Model; 3 Elites and Masses: Max Weber, Weberian Scholars, and Marxist Analysis; II Religious Action in the World Religions; 4 China: State Religion, Elites, and Popular Religion in a Syncretistic Milieu; 5 India: Brahmans, Renouncers, and Popular Hinduism; 6 Nirvana and Spirits: Buddhism and Animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia; 7 Hierocracy and Popular Religion: Catholicism in"Traditional" Europe.…”
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The pagan god : popular religion in the Greco-Roman Near East / by Teixidor, Javier

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Popular religion and ritual in prehistoric and ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean /

Table of Contents: “…Popular religion and ritual: introductory notes / Giorgos Vavouranakis -- Ritual, multitude and social structure in Minoan Crete / Giorgos Vavouranakis -- What relationship with the first palace of Phaistos? …”
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The cult of the fox : power, gender, and popular religion in late imperial and modern China / by Kang, Xiaofei, Ph.D

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Chinese shadow theatre : history, popular religion, and women warriors / by Chen, Fan-Pen Li, 1953-

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Haunting the Buddha : Indian popular religions and the formation of Buddhism / by DeCaroli, Robert

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The vow and the 'popular religious groups' of ancient Israel : a philological and sociological inquiry by Berlinerblau, Jacques

“…Israelite vow and the so-called "popular religion."…”
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Religious dimensions of child and family life : reflections on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by Coward, Harold G., Cook, Philip H. (Philip Hilton), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Child and family in Chinese popular religion /…”
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Baytīn, a Jordanian village : a study of social institutions and social change in a folk community by Lutfiyya, Abdulla M.

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European religion in the age of the great cities, 1830-1930

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A reader in Latina feminist theology : religion and justice

Table of Contents: “…Ana Castillo as santera : reconstructing popular religion praxis /…”
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A reader in Latina feminist theology : religion and justice

Table of Contents: “…Ana Castillo as santera : reconstructing popular religion praxis /…”
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Judaic religion in the Second Temple period : belief and practice from the Exile to Yavneh by Grabbe, Lester L.

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'On the beliefs of the Greeks' : Leo Allatios and popular Orthodoxy by Hartnup, Karen

Table of Contents: “…The Sources for Orthodox Popular Religion -- Leo Allatios: His Life and Influences -- The Gello and Popular Religion -- The Gello and Baptism -- The Gello and Marriage -- The Vrykolakas -- The Tympaniaios -- Allatios and Popular Healing -- Allatios and the Stoicheion.…”
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Worship by Pecklers, Keith F., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Worship and ritual -- Worship in development and decline -- Worship in crisis and challenge -- Worship in transition -- Worship and culture -- Worship and popular religion -- Worship and society -- Worship and the future of Christianity.…”
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Communities of dissent : a history of alternative religions in America by Stein, Stephen J., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Talking about religious outsiders -- Early dissenters and popular religion -- Peace movements in colonial America -- Communitarians living on the margins -- Apocalyptic traditions: watching and waiting for the end -- Healers and occultists: women of spiritual means -- Sectarians in the city -- Twentieth-century sects and cults.…”
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Rethinking contexts, rereading texts : contributions from the social sciences to biblical interpretation

Table of Contents: “…Dyck -- Re-examining "popular religion" : issues of definition and sources. Insights from interpretive anthropology ; "For so you love to do" : probing popular religion in the Book of Amos / M. …”
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Neighboring faiths : a Christian introduction to world religions by Corduan, Winfried

Table of Contents: “…Religion: study and practice -- Judaism -- Islam: basics and issues -- Islam: understanding 9/11 and radical islam -- Baha'i -- Zoroastrianism -- Traditional religions: introduction and African religion -- Native American religion -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- Jainism -- Sikhism -- Chinese popular religion -- Shinto and Japanese religions.…”
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Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1798. by Winter, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Historical Background; The Vicissitudes of the Ruling Class; The Bedouin Arabs and the State; The Ulama; The Sufis; Popular Religion; The Ashraf and Naqib al-Ashraf: The Prophet's Descendants and their Chief; The Dhimmis: Jews and Christians; Life in Ottoman Cairo; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Lived religion : faith and practice in everyday life by McGuire, Meredith B.

Table of Contents: “…Latinos and Latinas -- Popular religions in practice today : southern white Evangelicals -- Spirituality and materiality : why bodies matter -- Embodied practices for healing and wholeness -- Gendered spiritualities -- Rethinking religious identity, commitment, and hybridity.…”
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Uprising of the fools : pilgrimage as moral protest in contemporary India by Singh, Vikash, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…-- Caste and the informal economy : subversive aesthetics of popular religion -- Wishful nightmares : triumphant neoliberalism and the resistances of religion -- War, nation, and the human as a thing.…”
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The Religious Culture of Marian England. by Loades, David

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Structures of Coercion; 2 Elite Religion; 3 Popular Religion; 4 Religion and Daily Life; 5 Heresy and Dissent; 6 The Training of Clergy; 7 The Face of Persecution; 8 The Imagery of John Foxe; Postscript: The Early Elizabethan Church; Notes; Works Cited; Index.…”
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Chinese village life today : building families in an age of transition by Santos, Gonçalo D.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Charles Stafford -- Introduction: Building families in an age of transition -- Harmony Cave families : transition to the twenty-first century -- Love and marriage : the challenge of scientific birth planning -- Women and childbirth : the ambiguities of high-tech medicalization -- Grandparents and labor migration : technologies of multiple mothering -- Flush toilets : the politics of material civilization -- Popular religion : technologies of ethical imagination.…”
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Taoism : the road to immortality by Blofeld, John, 1913-1987

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- The nameless : The Tao and its activity -- Huang Lao, the yellow and the ancient : A historical survey -- The uncarved block : The Lao-Chuang influence -- Poems of stillness : Taoist poetry -- The mysterious portal : Legends of immortals -- The jade emperor's court : Taoism as a popular religion -- Green dragon white tiger : Taoist alchemy -- Return to the source : The ultimate attainment -- The valley spirit : Living Taoism.…”

Searching for a Distant God : the Legacy of Maimonides. by Seeskin, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Monotheism and Freedom; Seven. Popular Religion and a Personal God; Appendix: Esotericism and the Limits of Knowledge: A Critique of Strauss; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Index of Principal Sources.…”
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An Introduction to Feng Shui. by Bruun, Ole

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 A brief history of feng shui; Chapter 3 Feng shui in the context of Chinese popular religion; Chapter 4 Feng shui research; Chapter 5 Cosmological principles, schools of interpretation and the feng shui compass; Chapter 6 Feng shui in the Chinese cityscape: China proper and overseas; Chapter 7 Modern feng shui interpretations and uses; Chapter 8 Environmental concerns; Chapter 9 Feng shui as cultural globalization?…”
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Religious outsiders and the making of Americans by Moore, R. Laurence (Robert Laurence), 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Protestant unity and the American mission-the historiography of a desire -- Part one : Outsider religions, ethnicity, and American identity ; How to become a people : the Mormon scenario -- Managing Catholic success in a Protestant empire -- American Jews as an ordinary minority -- Part two : The progressive's despair-religions for average Americans ; Christian Science and American popular religion -- Premillennial Christian views of God's justice and American injustice -- The Protestant majority as a lost generation : a look at fundamentalism -- Black culture and Black churches : the quest for an autonomous identity -- Civil and uncivil religions : describing religious pluralism.…”
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Masters of small worlds : yeoman households, gender relations, and the political culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country by McCurry, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…""Like a Great Family"": Nullification Revivals and the Making of Popular Religion in the Low Country -- 5. ""Households of Faith"": Gender, Power, and Proslavery Christianity -- 6. …”
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Comparative perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish identities by Sharot, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Religious syncretism and religious distinctiveness -- The Kaifeng Jews : a reconsideration of their acculturation and assimilation in a comparative perspective -- Elite religion and popular religion : the example of saints -- Jewish millenarian-messianic movements : comparisons of Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and Italian Jews -- Millenarianism among conversos (new Christians) and former conversos (returnees to Judaism) -- The sacredness of sin : antinomianism and models of man -- Formulations of ethnicity and religion regarding American Jews in the writings of American sociologists -- Judaism and Jewish ethnicity : changing interrelationships and differentiations in the diaspora and Israel -- Jewish and other national and ethnic identities of Israeli Jews -- Secularization, neotraditionalism, polarization -- Public religion, privatization, and deprivatization in Israel.…”
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Chinese society : change, conflict and resistance

Table of Contents: “…-- Women, marriage and the state in contemporary China -- Domination, resistance and accommodation in China's one-child campaign -- Environmental protests in rural China -- The new cybersects: Popular religion, repression and resistance -- Chinese Christianity : indigenization and conflict -- Alter/native Mongolian identity : from nationality to ethnic group -- The revolution of resistance.…”
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Godly zeal and furious rage : the witch in early modern Europe by Quaife, G. R. (Geoffrey Robert)

Table of Contents: “…Heresy and the Diabolic Cult; 5. Paganism and Popular Religion; 6. Gender, Sex and Misogyny: I; 7. Gender, Sex and Misogyny: II; 8. …”
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Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries : Social Categories and Lived Identity in the Yucatan. by Hervik, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; List of National Georgraphic Plates; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1 The People of Oxkutzcab, Yucatán; Chapter 2 Social Categories in Yucatán; Chapter 3 External Constructions of "the Maya"; Chapter 4 Maya and "Mestizo" : Two Different Worlds; Chapter 5 Learning to be "Indian": Aspects of New Ethnic and Cultural Identities in Oxkutzcab; Chapter 6 Voices In and About Popular Religion: The Competing Constructions of Participants and "Authorities."…”
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Old Believers in a changing world by Crummey, Robert O.

Table of Contents: “…Historiography and theory: Past and current interpretations of the Old Belief. Old Belief as popular religion -- Seventeenth century origins: Ecclesiastical elites and popular belief and practice in seventeenth-century Russia. …”
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Religious competition in the Greco-Roman world

Table of Contents: “…Religious experts and popular religion. Introduction: competition between experts and nonexperts / Daniel Ullucci -- Why expert versus nonexpert is not elite versus popular religion: the case of the third century / Stanley K. …”
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Religion and science as forms of life : anthropological insights into reason and unreason

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : science, religion and forms of life / Carles Salazar -- Maturationally natural cognition impedes professional science and facilitates popular religion / Robert N. McCauley -- Scientific vs. religious 'knowledge' in evolutionary perspective / Michael Blume -- Magic and ritual in an age of science / Jesper Sorensen -- Moral employments of scientific thought / Timothy Jenkins -- The social life of concepts : public and private 'knowledge' of scientific creationism / Simon Coleman -- The embryo, sacred and profane / Marit Melhuus -- The religions of science and the sciences of religion in Brazil / Roger Sansi-Roca -- Science in action, religion in thought : Catholic charismatics' notions about illness / Maria Coma -- On the resilience of superstition / Joao de Pina-Cabral -- Religion, magic and practical reason : meaning and everyday life in contemporary Ireland / Tom Inglis -- Can the dead suffer traumas? …”
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Religious publishing and print culture in modern China : 1800-2012

Table of Contents: “…The colportage of the Protestant bible in late Qing China : the example of the British and Foreign Bible Society / George Kam Wah Mak -- Publishing prophecy : a century of Adventist print culture in China / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee and Christie Chui-Shan Chow -- Navigating the sea of scriptures : the Buddhist Studies Collectanea, 1918-1923 / Gregory Adam Scott -- Printing and circulating 'precious scrolls' in early twentieth-century Shanghai and its vicinity : toward an assessment of multifunctionality of the genre / Rostislav Berezkin -- The Xiantiandao and publishing in the Guangzhou-Hong Kong area from the late Qing to the 1930s : the case of the morality book publisher Wenzaizi / Yau Chi-on -- Morality book publishing and popular religion in modern China : a discussion centered on morality book publishers in Shanghai / Wang Chien-Chuan -- Illuminating goodness : some preliminary considerations of religious publishing in modern China / Paul R. …”
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