The new faces of Christianity : believing the Bible in the global south by Jenkins, Philip, 1952-

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Conscience on Stage : the Comedia as Casuistry in Early Modern Spain. by Kallendorf, Hilaire

Table of Contents: “…-- Questions of Strategy -- Moral Dilemmas and Conflicting Duties -- Hierarchies of Virtue and Vice -- Comedias and Confessional Manuals -- The Double Bind -- The Casuistical Dramatic Monologue and Tragedy -- 3 Asking for Advice: Class, Gender, and the Supernatural -- Rulers and Subjects, Masters and Servants -- Wave Imagery, Blindness, and Labyrinths -- Soliloquies and Supernatural Entities -- The Gendering of Casuistry -- Are Men or Women More Casuistical? …”
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Children into swans : fairy tales and the pagan imagination by Beveridge, Jan, 1945-

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Ceramics of Ancient America : Multidisciplinary Approaches

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Dean Arnold, Yumi Park Huntington, Johanna Minich -- Revealing natural and supernatural concepts through formal analysis -- Ceramic wares and water spirits: identifying religious sodalities in the lower Mississippi Valley / David H. …”
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Ghost train

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Community matters in Xinjiang, 1880-1949 : towards a historical anthropology of the Uyghur by Bellér-Hann, Ildikó

Table of Contents: “…Preface and Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration and Usage; List of Maps and Illustrations; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Place and People; Chapter Three Economic and Social Organization; Chapter Four Regulating Social Relations: The Force of Custom; Chapter Five The Life Cycle; Chapter Six Religion, Islamic Institutions and Dealing with the Supernatural; Chapter Seven Conclusion; Illustrations; Bibliography; Glossary of Frequently Used Turki/Uyghur Terms; Index.…”
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Borges's Poe : the influence and reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America by Esplin, Emron

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: reciprocal influence -- Renaming Poe: Jorge Luis Borges's literary criticism on Edgar Allan Poe -- Borges's philosophy of Poe's composition -- Reading and rereading -- Translating Poe: Jorge Luis Borges's Edgar Allan Poe translations -- Theory, practice, and Pym -- Facts and an envelope -- Rewriting Poe: Jorge Luis Borges's Poe-influenced and Poe-influencing short fiction -- Buried connections -- Supernatural revenge -- Epilogue: commemorative reframing.…”
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The short stories of edith wharton - volume iii. The Descent of Man & Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

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Macumba, trance and spirit healing

The Arachnean and other texts by Deligny, Fernand

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Living between the Lines; The Arachnean; The Island Below, Summer 1969; When the-Human-that-We-Are Is Not There; That Seeing and Looking at Oneself; Acting and the Acted; Art, Borders ... and the Outside; Card Taken and Map Traced; The Fulfilled Child; Those Excessives; The Human and the Supernatural; The Charade; Freedom without a Name; Pretend Not to Notice; The Obligatory and the Fortuitous; Connivance; The Missing Voice; When the-Human-that-We-Are Is Not There; Maps and Legends.…”
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The sea can wash away all evils : modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean by Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat -- The crisis of modern marine pollution -- The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements -- "The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea -- "The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes -- "O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire -- "Here end the works of the sea, the works of love."…”
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Shakespeare's storms. by Jones, Gwilym

Table of Contents: “…Wind; 6. Macbeth: supernatural storms, equivocal earthquakes; 7. Rain; 8. …”
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Royal power and authority in Shakespeare's late tragedies by Manninen, Alisa

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Introduction -- Three Heiresses -- Divided Kingship -- The Gift and the Bargain -- Belongings and Exclusions -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three -- Introduction -- Staging Stuart History -- The Threat and the Reward -- Kingship and Lineal Future -- The Absence of Prudence -- Social and Supernatural Rituals -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four -- Introduction -- From Rivalry to Rulership -- Egyptian Queenship and Roman Power -- Representing Authority -- The Enduring Triumph -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Remade in Hollywood : the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas by Chan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : remaking Chinese cinemas, Hollywood style -- Visualizing Hong Kong : Hollywood's 1997 response to the Hong Kong handover -- The global return of the Wuxia pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie) -- Enter the triads : American cinema's new racialized criminal other -- Hollywood's Sino-chic : Kung fu parody, mimicry, and play in cross-cultural citationality -- Chinese supernaturalism : mythic ethnography and the mystical other -- Coda : global cinematic technologies of ethnic (un)representation.…”
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Frenchtown chronicles of Prairie du Chien : history and folklore from Wisconsin's frontier

Table of Contents: “…Voyageurs' world -- The life of Julian Coryer -- Part 4. Supernatural stories -- Coryer's ghost stories and a conversation about faith cures -- Appendix.…”
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Violence in rural South Africa, 1880-1963 by Redding, Sean

Table of Contents: “…Deaths in the Family: Supernatural Harms and Violent Remedies -- 4. Sons and "Hooligans," "World-Destroyers" and Rebels: Traditional Violence Takes a Nationalist Turn -- Conclusion: Rural Violence Reconsidered -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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It Is Time to Redefine God : a Psychological and Natural Science Perspective. by Jacobs, Riaan

Table of Contents: “…; What Influences Us to Be Evil?; Is Any Supernatural Life Form Possible?; Was Jesus Really the Son of God?…”
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Paranormal Nation. by Fitch, Marc

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Philosophy and psychical research

Table of Contents: “…Explanations of the Supernatural; 10. Telepathy, Evolution and Dualism; Index.…”
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Women and Disability in Medieval Literature. by Pearman, Tory Vandeventer

Table of Contents: “…Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Medieval Authoritative Discourse and the Disabled Female Body; 1 (Dis)pleasure and (Dis)ability: The Topos of Reproduction in Dame Sirith and the "Merchant's Tale"; 2 Physical Education: Excessive Wives and Bodily Punishment in the Book of the Knight and the "Wife of Bath's Prologue"; 3 Refiguring Disability: Deviance, Punishment, and the Supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid; 4 Embodied Transcendence: Disability and the Procreative Body in the Book of Margery Kempe; Conclusion.…”
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Variation and change in the lexicon : a corpus-based analysis of adjectives in English ending in -ic and -ical by Kaunisto, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Materials used in the study -- Earlier observations and empirical studies -- The history of new adjectives ending in -ic and -ical -- Excellence, tradition, and ancient Greeks : classic/classical -- Perspectives on amusement : the use of comic/comical -- Arranging the motions of resources : economic/economical -- Shocks, sparks and excitement vs. engineering : electric/electrical -- The past and the important things in it : historic/historical -- From supernatural powers to exciting football games : magic/magical -- Obsolescence of one of the forms -- Some special cases -- Concluding remarks.…”
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A brave new world of knowledge : Shakespeare's The tempest and early modern epistemology by Sokol, B. J.

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Brave New World of Knowledge -- Introduction -- 1 The Natural History of Pearls and the Pearls in Ariel's Second Song -- 2 Scientific Theory: The Example of Thomas Harriot and Virginia -- 3 The Tempest and New World Cultural Encounter -- 4 The Tempest, Atmospheric Science, Prague Magi, and a Jamestown Experimenter -- 5 '' The Strong Necessity of Time'' -- 6 The Natural and the Supernatural -- 7 Why Prospero Abjures ''Rough Magic, '' and What He Must '' Acknowledge'' -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Songs and gifts at the frontier : person and exchange in the Agusan Manobo possession ritual, Philippines by Buenconsejo, José S. (José Semblante)

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; A Note on Orthography; Chapter 1 The Rivers of Exchange; Chapter 2 The Manobo Cosmos (Kalibutan); Chapter 3 The Diwata in the Pantheon of Manobo Supernatural Beings; Chapter 4 The Burning Panubad-tubad Speech; Chapter 5 Personal Songs; Chapter 6 Reluctance and Shame: Negotiating a Visayanized Public Culture; Chapter 7 Song and Sacrificing; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Art and political thought in Bole Butake by Ngwang, Emmanuel N., Usongo, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Contextualizing Butake -- Interview with professor Bole Butake, dramatist and university professor who refused to be "Lapiroed" -- The political dimensions of Lake God and other plays -- Re-configuration of colonialism in postcolonial cameroon in Bole Butake's plays -- Colonial legacy and the culture of corruption in Lake God and The Rape of Michelle -- Female empowerment and political change in Lake God, The Survivors, and and Palm Wine Will Flow -- Symbol and meaning in Lake God and other plays -- From spoken to texture: orality in Lake God -- Character and the supernatural in Lake God -- Conclusion and Butake's legacy.…”
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The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897. by Bentley, D. M. R.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Notes on Dates, Quotations, and Citations; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; 1 YOUNG CANADA: 1880-1884; 2 CANADIANISM: 1885-1890; 3 AESTHETICS: WORKMANSHIP AND VARIETY; 4 NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; 5 THERAPEUTIC NATURE; 6 SUPERNATURALISM; 7 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL RECOGNITION: 1889-1895; 8 DISINTEGRATION; AFTERMATH; 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.…”
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Refining nature in modern Japanese literature : the life and art of Shiga Naoya by Guo, Nanyan

Table of Contents: “…The nurturing of Shiga's feelings for nature -- The moon: Early encounters with nature -- The sun: In pursuit of a religiosity of art -- Nature destroyed: The Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident -- Plants: The essence of nature -- Living creatures: Mirrors of human nature -- The supernatural and nature -- Dreams: Nature internalized -- Lafcadio Hearn's influence on Shiga's literary style -- Conclusion: Nature-inspired art and artistic nature -- Appendix 1: Chronology of Shiga Naoya's life and art -- Appendix 2: Map of Japan with places that figure importantly in Shiga's literature.…”
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The radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan by Scult, Mel

Table of Contents: “…Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza -- Self-reliance: Kaplan and Emerson -- Nationalism and righteousness: Ahad ha-Am and Matthew Arnold -- Universalism and pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey -- Kaplan and peoplehood: Judaism as a civilization and Zionism -- Kaplan and his God: an ambivalent relationship -- Kaplan's theology: beyond supernaturalism -- Salvation: the goal of religion -- Salvation embodied: the vehicle of mitzvot -- Mordecai the pious: Kaplan and Heschel -- The law: halakhah and ethics -- Kaplan and the problem of evil: cutting the gordian knot -- Appendix: "Thirteen wants" of Mordecai Kaplan reconstructed.…”
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The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897. by Bentley, D. M. R.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Notes on Dates, Quotations, and Citations; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; 1 YOUNG CANADA: 1880-1884; 2 CANADIANISM: 1885-1890; 3 AESTHETICS: WORKMANSHIP AND VARIETY; 4 NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; 5 THERAPEUTIC NATURE; 6 SUPERNATURALISM; 7 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL RECOGNITION: 1889-1895; 8 DISINTEGRATION; AFTERMATH; 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.…”
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Michael Servetus, Heartfelt : Proceedings of the International Servetus Congress, Barcelona, 20-21 October, 2006. by Naya, Juan

Table of Contents: “…The Rational Limit of the Supernatural Order: The Servetian Response to the Conflict betweenReason and Faith; Ch05. …”
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The sociology of religion : a substantive and transdisciplinary approach by Lundskow, George N., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Theory; Chapter 2 -- A Sociological History of Religion; Chapter 3 -- Superstition and the Supernatural; Chapter 4 -- Religious Adaptation; Chapter 5 -- Religious Intolerance and Aggression; Chapter 6 -- Evil; Chapter 7 -- Cults; Chapter 8 -- Emergent Religion: The Examples of Neopaganism and New Evangelicalism; Chapter 9 -- Religion and the Forces of Globalization; Chapter 10 -- Religion Beyond Religion: Sacredness, Mystery, and Faith in Other Contexts; References and Further Reading; Index; About the Author.…”
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Lamas, shamans and ancestors : village religion in Sikkim by Balikci, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Original Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; List of Illustrations; PART I: THE SETTING; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Perspectives on the Past; Chapter Three: The Hidden Land and its SupernaturalPopulation; Chapter Four: Village Religion: Ritual of Illness; Chapter Five: The Shamans; PART II: THE LAND; Chapter Six: The Land, its Workers, Harvests and Rituals; Chapter Seven: The Land, its Problems and RitualSolutions; PART III: THE HOUSEHOLD; Chapter Eight: Life and Ritual Cycles of Household Members.…”
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Demystifying meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) : the evolving self, the personal unconscious, and the creative process by Williams, Gibbs A., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…DEMYSTIFYING MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCES (SYNCHRONICITIES); Contents; Acknowledgments and Credits; Preface; Chapter 01: The Emotional Power and Intellectual Challenge of Synchronicities; Part I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; Chapter 02: Jung's Psychological/Supernatural Theory of Synchronicities; Chapter 03: Refuting Jung's Three Anti-Causal Arguments; Chapter 04: Naturalistic Interpretations of Synchronicities; Part II: THEORY CONSTRUCTION; Chapter 05: Synchronicity Challenged; Chapter 06: Immersion in the Occult; Chapter 07: My 19 Synchronicities and Freud; Chapter 08: My Synchronicity Theory Works.…”
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Religion is not about God : how spiritual traditions nurture our biological nature and what to expect when they fail by Rue, Loyal D.

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Religion is not about God : how spiritual traditions nurture our biological nature and what to expect when they fail by Rue, Loyal D.

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The People of Aritama : the Cultural Personality of a Colombian Mestizo Village. by Reichel-Dolmatoff, Alicia

Table of Contents: “…DIMENSIONS OF THE SUPERNATURAL; Omens, Harbingers, and Taboos; Individual Powers; Magical Aggression; Some Aspects of Ritual in Everyday Life; Death and the Beyond; The Fiesta Cycle; Sacred Sites and Offerings; The Framework of Supernatural Belief; IX. …”
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The short stories of edith wharton - volume ii. The Duchess At Prayer & Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

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The short stories of edith wharton - volume i. Madame de Treymes & Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

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The short stories of edith wharton - volume vi. The Bolted Door & Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

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The Great God Pan by Machen, Arthur

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The short stories of edith wharton - volume v. The Hermit and the Wild Woman & Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

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