Contested conversions to Islam narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire / by Krstić, Tijana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : turning "Rumi" : conversion to Islam, fashioning of the Ottoman imperial ideology, and interconfessional relations in the early modern Mediterranean context -- Muslims through narratives : textual repertoires of fifteenth-century Ottoman Islam and formation of the Ottoman interpretative communities -- Toward an Ottoman Rumi identity : the polemical arena of syncretism and the debate on the place of converts in fifteenth-century Ottoman polity -- In expectation of the Messiah : interimperial rivalry, apocalypse, and conversion in sixteenth-century Muslim polemical narratives -- Illuminated by the light of Islam and the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate : self-narratives of conversion to Islam in the age of confessionalization -- Between the turban and the papal tiara : Orthodox Christian neomartyrs and their impresarios in the age of confessionalization -- Everyday communal politics of coexistence and Orthodox Christian martyrdom : a dialogue of sources and gender regimes in the age of confessionalization -- Conclusion : conversion and confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: considerations for future research.…”
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The medieval Haggadah : art, narrative, and religious imagination / by Epstein, Marc Michael, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Jewish visual culture as memory's mirror -- The Birds' Haggadah -- Birds' Head revisited -- Socioreligious stratification -- Narrative sequence -- Eucharistic polemics -- Metahistorical connections -- Eschatological hopes -- The Golden Haggadah -- Silence is golden -- Women hidden in plain sight -- The Rylands and "Brother" Haggadot -- Siblings : identical or fraternal? …”
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The art of subversion in inquisitorial Spain Rojas and Delicado / by Fontes, Manuel da Costa

Table of Contents: “…The converso problem -- Repression and artistic expression -- The idea of "limpieza" in Celestina, La lozana andaluza, and other literary works -- Celestina as an antithesis of the blessed mother -- Christian prayer and dogma in Celestina : the polemic continues -- "Sailing," Renaissance Rome, and exile in La lozana andaluza : an allegorical reading -- The Holy Trinity and the Annunciation in La lozana andaluza -- Rojas, Delicado, and the art of subversion.…”
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The claims of poverty literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England / by Crassons, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Forms of need: the allegorical representation of poverty in Piers Plowman -- Poverty exposed: the evangelical and epistemological ideal of Pierce the Ploughman's crede -- "Clamerous" beggars and "nedi" knights: poverty and Wycliffite reform -- The costs of sanctity: Margery Kempe and the Franciscan imaginary -- Communal identities: performing poverty, charity, and labor in York's Corpus Christi theater -- Nickel and dimed: poverty polemic medieval and modern.…”
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The insight of unbelievers Nicholas of Lyra and Christian reading of Jewish text in the later Middle Ages / by Klepper, Deeana Copeland

Table of Contents: “….: mediating Hebrew traditions for a Christian audience -- The challenge of unbelief: knowing Christian truth through Jewish scripture -- Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's quodlibetal questions and anti-Jewish polemic -- Christian ownership of Jewish text: Nicholas of Lyra as an alternative Jewish authority.…”
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Why this new race ethnic reasoning in early Christianity / by Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…"Worshippers of so-called Gods, Jews, and Christians" : religion in ethnoracial discourses -- "We were before the foundation of the world" : appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition -- "We, quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel" : Christian claims to peoplehood -- "A Genos saved by nature" : ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic -- "From every race of humans" : ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism.…”
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Screening Morocco contemporary film in a changing society / by Orlando, Valérie, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Moroccan national cinema: the making of an industry -- Theories and polemics: Moroccan films as social-realist texts -- Issues, contexts, and "culture wars": Marocains residants é l'etranger (MREs) versus filmmakers at home -- Bad boys, drugs, and rock 'n' roll: the urban stories of Morocco -- Prison, torture, and testimony: retelling the memories of the lead years -- Women's voices: documenting Morocco through feminine lenses -- Conclusion: the future of Moroccan cinema?.…”
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Opening doors thought from (and of) the outside / by Watson, Garry, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: A different kind of meditation -- Part I: Introductory -- A polemical clearing of the ground -- Why we need to rethink religion -- Part II: The outside -- Shifting focus from the "outsider" to the "outside" -- Thought from (and of) the outside : Lawrence, Levinas and Derrida on the firing line -- Thought from (and of) the outside : Abraham, Conrad's "secret sharer" and hospitality -- Balancing as we go : slave or noble? …”
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Transcending the new woman multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / by Rich, Charlotte J.

Table of Contents: “…Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights -- From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence -- A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman -- "The highly original country of the Yanquis" : María Cristina Mena and American womanhood -- Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska -- Conclusion.…”
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Militant women of a fragile nation by Abisaab, Malek Hassan

Table of Contents: “…From loom to puff: women and waged labor in colonial Lebanon -- Domesticity and waged labor: gendered and class polemics in colonial and postcolonial times -- At the legal frontiers: "unruly" workingwomen between colonial authority and the national state, 1940-1946 -- Rural displacement and migration among the Régie workers, 1950-1980 -- Women negotiate family and work: 1950-1997 -- "Qati al-arzaq min qati al-anaq": gendered boundaries and class, tobacco women's struggle, 1960-1965.…”
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Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography by Baron, Christopher A., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Timaeus in Athens -- Polemical Invective and the Hellenistic Historian's Craft -- The Missing Link? …”
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Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England Ravenous Natures / by Skuse, Alanna

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The Huguenots history and memory in transnational context : essays in honour and memory of Walter C. Utt /

Table of Contents: “…Th ompson -- Exile, integration and european perspectives : Huguenots in the Pays de Vaud / Vivienne Larminie -- Testaments of faith : wills of Huguenot refugees in England as a window on their past / Randolph Vigne -- The memory of the Huguenots in North America : Protestant history and polemic / Paul McGraw.…”
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The trinitarian theology of Hilary of Poitiers by Weedman, Mark

Table of Contents: “…The shape of Hilary's trinitarian theology: Exegeting Scripture -- Strategy 1: polemical exegesis -- Arian, not Homoian -- Polemical exegesis of the Genesis theophanies -- Strategy 2: Philippians 2 as a hermeneutical guide -- The name and birth of God -- Name and birth in De trinitate 7 -- The birth of the Son in Hilary's exegesis of John -- Name and birth in Greek trinitarian theology -- Origen on naming -- Athanasius and the Father of the Son -- Name and birth in the early Homoian controversy -- The incarnation and passion of the Son -- Forma servi-forma dei in De trinitate 9-10 -- The background of Hilary's forma servi-forma dei model -- Philippians 2 in Latin trinitarian theology -- Basil of Ancyra on Philippians 2 -- The passion of the Son in De trinitate 10 -- Eschatology and christology in De trinitate 11 -- The generation of the Son -- Analogy and the infinite nature of God -- Proverbs 8:22 and the eternal generation of the Son.…”
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New perspectives on old texts proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9-11January, 200...

Table of Contents: “…Fletcher-Louis -- The polemic against the Tevul Yom: a reexamination / Martha Himmelfarb -- Qumran and the genealogy of Western mysticism / Philip S. …”
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Language without soil Adorno and late philosophical modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Kelley -- The idiom of crisis : on the historical immanence of language in Adorno / Neil Larsen -- Aesthetic theory and nonpropositional truth content in Adorno / Gerhard Richter -- The homeland of language : a note on truth and knowledge in Adorno / Mirko Wischke -- Of stones and glass houses : minima moralia as critique of transparency / Eric Jarosinski -- The polemic of the late work : Adorno's Hölderlin / Robert Savage -- Twelve anacoluthic theses on Adorno's "Parataxis : on Hölderlin's late poetry" / David Farrell Krell -- The ephemeral and the absolute : provisional notes to Adorno's Aesthetic theory / Peter Uwe Hohendahl.…”
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"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" the poetics of Boris Slutsky / by Grinberg, Marat, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Historiography -- The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars" -- The poet-historian: transplantation added -- A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53 -- Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse -- The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics -- Pt. 2. Polemics -- Writing the Jew: the poet's genealogies -- On account of the elegy: within cemetery walls -- Conversing about god: between the old and the new -- Pt. 3. …”
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J.M. Coetzee and ethics philosophical perspectives on literature /

Table of Contents: “…Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy -- Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral vision in Age of Iron / Samantha Vice -- The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection / Jennifer Flynn -- Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello / Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm -- Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche / Alena Dvorakova.…”
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Morality and masculinity in the Carolingian empire by Stone, Rachel

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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Theory of aesthetic judgment -- The rationalist aesthetic -- The meaning of rules -- Kant's paltry polemic -- Diotima versus Dionysus -- The challenge of irrationalism -- Gadamer and the rationalist tradition -- Leibniz and the roots of aesthetic rationalism -- The grandfather's strange case -- Theory of beauty -- Analysis of sense -- The classical Trinity -- Wolff and the birth of aesthetic rationalism -- Wolff and the aesthetic tradition -- Theory of the arts -- Psychology -- Theory of beauty -- Foundations of neo-classicism -- Gottsched and the high noon of rationalism -- Herr Professor Gottsched's Peruke -- The importance of taste -- Defense of tragedy -- Theory of taste -- Poetics -- The rules -- Dr. …”
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