The sun god and the savior : the Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico by Stresser-Péan, Guy

Table of Contents: “…Converting the Indians in sixteenth-century Central Mexico to Christianity -- From spiritual conquest to parish administration in colonial Central Mexico -- A trilingual, traditionalist Indigenous area in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Introduction of Christianity in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Local religious crises in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The Tutotepec Otomí Rebellion, 1766-1769 -- Contemporary traditions in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Sacred drums, Teponaztli, and idols from the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Traditional Indigenous festivities in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Elements and accessories of traditional native ceremonies -- Christian festivities in the villages of the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Dances that originated in the pre-Hispanic period -- Dances that originated during the colonial period -- Holders of Indigenous wisdom -- Relics of the Mesoamerican calendar in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Beliefs about the formation and the end of the world -- Cosmology : the world in the eyes of the Indians of the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- The souls of beings and things -- Supernatural beings in the beliefs and religious practices of Indians in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- The non-syncretic religion of the last Nahuas of Central Mexico -- Religious syncretism among today's Indians in the Sierra Norte de Puebla.…”
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Studies in folk life : essays in honour of Iorwerth C. Peate

Table of Contents: “…--Investigation of an industry and its products, by S. Erixon.--The supernatural in Welsh place-names, by M. Richards.--Prefixed pronominal forms in a Welsh dialect, by V.H. …”
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The sun god and the savior : the Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico by Stresser-Péan, Guy

Table of Contents: “…Converting the Indians in sixteenth-century Central Mexico to Christianity -- From spiritual conquest to parish administration in colonial Central Mexico -- A trilingual, traditionalist Indigenous area in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Introduction of Christianity in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Local religious crises in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The Tutotepec Otomí Rebellion, 1766-1769 -- Contemporary traditions in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Sacred drums, Teponaztli, and idols from the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Traditional Indigenous festivities in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Elements and accessories of traditional native ceremonies -- Christian festivities in the villages of the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Dances that originated in the pre-Hispanic period -- Dances that originated during the colonial period -- Holders of Indigenous wisdom -- Relics of the Mesoamerican calendar in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Beliefs about the formation and the end of the world -- Cosmology : the world in the eyes of the Indians of the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- The souls of beings and things -- Supernatural beings in the beliefs and religious practices of Indians in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- The non-syncretic religion of the last Nahuas of Central Mexico -- Religious syncretism among today's Indians in the Sierra Norte de Puebla.…”
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Evolution of Preventive Medicine. by Newsholme, Arthur

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; PREFACE; Table of Contents; CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY; CHAPTER II THEOLOGICAL AND SACERDOTAL OBSESSIONS CONCERNING DISEASE; CHAPTER III THE ESCAPE FROM AND RELASPSE INTO SUPERNATURALISM; CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNINGS OF EMANCIPATION; CHAPTER V STAGES IN AND OBSTACLES TO PROGRESS; CHAPTER VI THE RELATION OF SCIENCE TO MEDICINE; CHAPTER VII THE SLOW SUBVERSION OF AUTHORITY AND INCREMENT OF SCIENCE; CHAPTER VIII THE GROWTH OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF INFECTION.…”
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Sexual abuse : beauty for ashes by Kellemen, Robert W.

Table of Contents: “…Sustaining : it's normal to hurt -- Healing : it's possible to hope -- Reconciling : it's horrible to sin, but wonderful to be forgiven -- Guiding : it's supernatural to mature -- Keep clinging to Christ -- Applying the gospel to daily life.…”
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Jewish theology and process thought

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodem Thought -- Table Of Contents -- Contents -- Introduction -- Jewish Theology and Process Thought -- The Prophetic Faith in a Secular Age -- A Process Theory of Torah and Mitzvot -- Judaism and Process Thought: Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism -- Judaism and Process Theology: Parallel Concerns and Challenging Tensions -- The Essence of Judaism: A Process-Relational Critique…”
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Moss Farm : or the mysterious missives of the Moosepath League by Reid, Van

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Maya figurines : intersections between state and household by Halperin, Christina T.

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Ghosts of old Louisville : true stories of hauntings in America's largest Victorian neighborhood by Dominé, David

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A dreamer and a visionary : H.P. Lovecraft in his time by Joshi, S. T., 1958-

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Caciques and Cemí idols : the web spun by Taíno rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico by Oliver, José R.

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Not quite shamans : spirit worlds and political lives in northern Mongolia by Pedersen, Morten Axel, 1969-

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Superstition : belief in the age of science by Park, Robert L.

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Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

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Rethinking Négritude through Léon-Gontran Damas. by Miller, F. Bart

Table of Contents: “…Tricksters and GourmandsHuman Relations, the Supernatural and Spirituality; Conclusion; Chapter 4; Drinking to Remember:Pre-histories and Afterlives of Assimilation in Black-Label; Memory and Exile; Framing and Forming Black-Label through Memory; Damas's Alcoholic Narrator in Black-Label; Canto I -- Memories of Contact; Canto II -- Magnification of a Personal History; Canto III -- Revisiting the Assimilation of Sicy-Chabine; Canto IV -- Escape as Imagination and Suicide; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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A dreamer and a visionary : H.P. Lovecraft in his time by Joshi, S. T., 1958-

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Modern enchantments : the cultural power of secular magic by During, Simon, 1950-

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Plants of Middle-earth : Botany and Sub-creation. by Hazell, Dinah

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The Essential Mary Midgley.

Table of Contents: “…-- Part Two -- Philosophizing Out in the World -- 10 PHILOSOPHICAL PLUMBING -- 11 WISDOM AND CONTEMPLATION -- 12 THE WITHDRAWAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY -- 13 ESCAPING FROM SOLITUDE -- 14 THE HUMAN HEART AND OTHER ORGANS -- 15 ON TRYING OUT ONE 'S NEW SWORD ON A CHANCE WAYFARER -- Part Three -- The Myths of Science -- 16 SALVATION AND THE ACADEMICS -- 17 EVOLUTIONARY DRAMAS -- 18 THE IRRESISTIBLE ESCALATOR -- 19 THE SERVICE OF SELF AND THE SERVICE OF KALI -- 20 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE YUK FACTOR -- 21 THE SUPERNATURAL ENGINEER -- 22 THE REMARKABLE MASCULINE BIRTH OF TIME -- Part Four -- Reason and Imagination -- 23 THE SOURCES OF THOUGHT -- 24 ATOMISTIC VISIONS -- 25 PUTTING OUR SELVES TOGETHER AGAIN -- 26 A PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES -- Part Five -- Gaian Thinking:: Putting it All Together -- 27 INDIVIDUALISM AND THE CONCEPT OF GAIA -- 28 GODS AND GODDESSES -- 29 WHY THERE IS SUCH A THING AS SOCIETY -- 30 THE UNITY OF LIFE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY MARY MIDGLEY -- INDEX.…”
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Spectrality in the novels of Toni Morrison by Anderson, Melanie

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The shaman and the heresiarch : a new interpretation of the Li sao by Sukhu, Gopal

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The transformation of theology, 1830-1890 : positivism and Protestant thought in Britain and America by Cashdollar, Charles D., 1943-

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Sophocles' tragic world : divinity, nature, society by Segal, Charles, 1936-2002

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The theology of the Book of Isaiah by Goldingay, John

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Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women by Bynum, Caroline Walker

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Science vs. religion : the search for a rational approach by Perez, Guido O.

Table of Contents: “…The Two Major Worldviews ; Supernaturalism; Naturalism ; Chapter 3. The Origin of the Universe; The Beginning ; Cosmic Expansion ; Chapter 4. …”
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Weaving the past : a history of Latin America's indigenous women from the prehispanic period to the present by Kellogg, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Women and gender among northern and central Mexican peoples: parallel organizations, hierarchical ideologies ; The postclassic Ñudzahui: elite gender complementarity ; The Maya of the classic and postclassic periods: the flexible patriarchy ; The Andes: women and supernatural and state power ; Conclusion -- Colliding worlds: indigenous women, conquest, and colonialism. …”
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Home sweat home : perspectives on housework and modern relationships

Table of Contents: “…Hung out to dry : laundry advertising and the American woman, 1890-1920 / by Kristi Branham -- Snapshot photography, women's domestic work and the 'Kodak moment' 1910s-60s / by Nicola Goc -- From chimney sweeps to house elves : housework, subject formation, agency, and British children's fantasy literature 1863-2007 / by Hannah Swamidoss -- Appliance reliance : domestic technologies and the depersonalization of housework in postwar American speculative fiction / by Andrea Krafft -- Making easier the lives of our housewives : visions of domestic technology in the kitchen debate / by Nicole Williams Barnes -- Supernatural housework : magic and domesticity in 1960s television / by Kristi Rowan Humphreys -- Every day should be like sunny weather : Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon Channel Carol Channing to resolve the politics of housework for a new generation of parents / by Mimi Choi -- Spaces of masculinity and work : bringing men back into the domestic sphere / by Elizabeth Patton -- Kauering Home in Ang Lee's The wedding banquet / by Gust A. …”
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Science Education : an International Course Companion. by Taber, Keith

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical CommitmentsMETAPHYSICAL COMMITMENTS OF SCIENCE; Scientific Values; Scientism and Materialism; STUDENTS' BELIEFS AND LEARNING SCIENCE; Alternative Conceptions of Natural Mechanisms; Religious Beliefs that may be Compatible with Science; Beliefs in Supernatural Mechanisms that Compete with Science; TEACHING SCIENCE AS THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE; CONCLUSIONS; FURTHER READING; REFERENCES; 5. …”
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Critical reflections on audience and narrativity : new connections, new perspectives

Table of Contents: “…/ Daniela Schluetz, Beate Schneider -- Awake, or the multiplication of the realities contemporary television series: narrative structures and audience perception / Mathieu Pierre -- "Three hundred channels and nothing's on": metaleptic genre-mixing in Supernatural / Michael Fuchs -- Appreciating Nietzsche in episodic drama: the highbrow intertextuality and middlebrow reception of Criminal minds / Michael Wayne -- The seed of an idea and its cognitive field: minding the gap of alternate reality in Flash forward and Fringe / Inbar Kaminsky -- Breaking narrative: narrative complexity in contemporary television / Oliver Kroener -- The walking dead and the truly monstrous ... on television / Atene Mendelyte -- Television cosmo-mythologies: the return to mythological narratives in television fiction, from The prisoner to Lost / Raquel Crisóstomo Gálvez, Enric Ros Zofío -- Breaking bad, a character-based formula / Rodrigo Mesonero -- Representing occupations in media and audience perceptions of TV series / Valentina Marinescu -- Homeland: war on terror revisited / Marc Perelló-Sobrepere -- Understanding health in Grey's Anatomy television series / Bianca Mitu -- Fiction television in Brazil: new perspectives / Lilian Fontes Moreira -- TV series Bolji z̆ivot (1987-1991): view from the future / Natasa Simeunovic Bajic -- The X-factor of singing competitions TV series / Maria Dicieanu -- TV drama as a narrative form: scenes from a gendered and a sacralized cultural sphere in Turkish society / Nuran E. …”
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The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 by Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-

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Aspiring saints : pretense of holiness, Inquisition, and gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750 by Schutte, Anne Jacobson

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Introduction to Medical Ethics : Patient's Interest First. by Lim, Arthur S. M.

Table of Contents: “….; In ancient society, the doctor was regarded as a supernatural figure as he grappled with the serious and mysterious forces of disease and health.…”
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Once upon a time : a short history of fairy tale by Warner, Marina

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Spirit of prophecy defended. by Michaels, J. M.

Table of Contents: “…Visions often seen without Ecstasy attendingThe Worship of God, as revealed, was built upon Vision primarily after the Flood; God has revealed himself to Persons the most Unholy; Visions not seen with the Natural Eye; The Meanness of Things represented by Vision does not make it less from God; Angels do appear in several Forms different from the human; CHAPTER SIX; A Supernatural Impression on the Senses of Taste and Smell; The Scripture sense of the word Prophet is not specifical of predicting; Revelation under the Gospel communicated with Terror.…”
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Cartomancy and tarot in film : 1940-2010 by Auger, Emily E. (Emily Elisabeth), 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Ethnicity, Eccentricity, and the SupernaturalThe Mystic; Nomadism; Chapter 5: Cartomancy and Tarot in Film Narratives; The Cartomancy Reading; The Narrative Roles of Cartomancy and Tarot Scenes; Cartomancy and Tarot in Genres and Themes; Chapter 6: Tarot Trumps in Film; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Appendix 1: Filmography; Appendix 2: Charts; Chart 1 Cartomancers and Querents as Characters; Chart 2 Cartomancers and Querents: Gender, Age, Marital Status, and Professionalism; Chart 3 Tarot Trumps in Film; Chart 4 Tarot Trumps in Film Genres; Chart 5 Frequency of Tarot Trumps in Film Genres.…”
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The history of the Sevarambians : a utopian novel by Vairasse, Denis, approximately 1630-approximately 1696

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The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 by Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-

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Mind's eye : stories from Whapmagoostui

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Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century by Springsted, Eric O.

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