Search Results - "superstition"

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

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Of superstition and enthusiasm by Hume, David, 1711-1776

Subjects: “…Superstition Early works to 1800.…”
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Inventing superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians / by Martin, Dale B., 1954-

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Jewish magic and superstition a study in folk religion / by Trachtenberg, Joshua, 1904-

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A to Z world superstitions and folklore 175 countries : spirit worship, curses, mystical characters, folk tales, burial and the dead, animals, food, marriage, good luck, bad luck, totems and amulets and ancestor spirits / by Putzi-Ortiz, Sibylla

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A to Z world religion 175 countries - religions of the country, basic tenets, religious conflict, secularism, superstitions, religious clerics, and more / by Putzi-Ortiz, Sibylla

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Fearful spirits, reasoned follies the boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe / by Bailey, Michael David, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the meanings of medieval superstition -- The weight of tradition -- Superstition in court and cloister -- The cardinal, the confessor, and the chancellor -- Dilemmas of discernment -- Witchcraft and its discontents -- Toward disenchantment?.…”
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Enchanted Europe superstition, reason, and religion, 1250-1750 / by Cameron, Euan

Subjects: “…Superstition Europe History.…”
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The superstitious muse thinking Russian literature mythopoetically / by Bethea, David M., 1948-

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Death lore Texas rituals, superstitions, and legends of the hereafter /

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The devil and commodity fetishism in South America by Taussig, Michael T.

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The reform of time magic and modernity / by Perkins, Maureen

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Cult, culture, and authority Princess Liẽ̂u Hạnh in Vietnamese history / by Dror, Olga

Table of Contents: “…Writing hagiographies, creating history -- The appearance of Liẽ̂u Hạnh's cult -- Contending narratives in classical voices -- Vernacularization of the sublime -- From superstition to cultural tradition.…”
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The people's Peking man popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / by Schmalzer, Sigrid

Table of Contents: “…"From 'dragon bones' to scientific research" : Peking Man and popular paleoanthropology in pre-1949 China -- "A united front against superstition" : science dissemination, 1940-1971 -- "The content of human" : in search of human identity, 1940-1971 -- "Labor created science" : the class politics of scientific knowledge, 1940-1971 -- "Presumptuous guests usurp the hosts" : dissemination and participation, 1971-1978 -- "Springtime for science," but what a garden : mystery, superstition, and fanatics in the post-Máo Era -- "From legend to science," and back again? …”
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Shamans, nostalgias, and the IMF South Korean popular religion in motion / by Kendall, Laurel

Table of Contents: “…Shifting intellectual terrain: superstition becomes culture and religion -- Memory horizons: kut from two ethnographic presents -- Initiating performance: Chini's story -- The ambiguities of becoming: phony shamans and what are mudang after all? …”
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Violent conflicts, fragile peace perspectives on Africa's security problems /

Table of Contents: “…Human security and superstition in African conflicts -- pt. 5. Private security and the mercenary problem in Africa -- pt. 6. …”
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Black magic religion and the African American conjuring tradition / by Chireau, Yvonne Patricia, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…"Our religion and superstition was all mixed up" : conjure, Christianity and African American supernatural traditions -- "Africa was a land a' magic power since de beginnin' a history" : old world sources of conjuring traditions -- "Folks can do yuh lots of harm" : African American supernatural harming traditions -- "Medical doctors can't do you no good" : conjure and African American traditions of healing -- "We all believed in hoodoo" : conjure and Black American cultural traditions.…”
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In Africa's forest and jungle six years among the Yorubas / by Stone, R. H. (Richard Henry)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Along the coast -- Up the Ogun -- In native homes -- The story of Crowther -- In a native caravan -- An African despot -- Our first dwelling -- Some beasts and insects -- Life and language -- Superstitions -- Polygamy -- Some African maladies -- Hunting -- Mental solitude -- Waylaid and captured -- Flight from Ebaddan -- Home again -- Opening battles around Ejahyay -- Worshipping the dead prince -- Leaving the doomed city -- Partial civilization -- Love letters -- A narrow escape -- The human sacrifice -- The stolen child -- Improvements -- Cast among robbers -- The colony of Lagos.…”
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Engaging the spirit world popular beliefs and practices in modern southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…: rethinking the four palaces' spirit representations in the context of social and political changes in northern Vietnam / Claire Chauvet -- Gods, gifts, markets, and superstition : spirited consumption from Korea to Vietnam / Laurel Kendall -- Contests of commemoration : virgin war martyrs, state memorials, and the invocation of the spirit world in contemporary Vietnam / Kirsten W. …”
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Saving God religion after idolatry / by Johnston, Mark, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- Supernaturalism and scientism -- Scientism and superstition -- Supernaturalism -- Legitimate naturalism -- Scientism versus science -- The argument for naturalism from true religion -- The phenomenological approach -- The method and the question -- Yahweh's use of the method -- A criterion, or an enclosed circle? …”
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